Director, SoC Digital Design

We are looking for a seasoned digital design leader to drive the architecture, design, and execution of advanced SoC and chiplet solutions powering the future of AI and high-performance computing. This role blends technical depth with strategic oversight, and offers a unique opportunity to shape methodology, mentor engineers, and lead multi-disciplinary collaboration at scale.

This role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, Ottawa or Boston.

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

Who You Are

• A senior digital design expert with hands-on RTL experience and a sharp eye for system-level architecture.
• A natural leader who enjoys mentoring teams across geographies and disciplines.
• Someone that is deeply familiar with SoC-level concepts like CPU integration, security, and boot processes.
• Comfortable working across IP boundaries — from Ethernet to AXI/CHI, and everything in between.

What We Need

• A director to lead and grow a high-performance digital design team building next-gen chiplets.
• Technical ownership of RTL development, methodology definition, and design quality.
• Strong collaboration across firmware, hardware, and verification to drive end-to-end execution.
• Proven ability to manage schedules, mitigate risk, and deliver complex SoC programs.

What You Will Learn

• How to drive chiplet architecture at the forefront of ML and HPC innovation.
• How to build scalable design teams and methodologies from the ground up.
• The ins and outs of how AI workloads, system software, and silicon come together in tightly integrated designs.
• The future of die-to-die interfaces and chiplet-based SoC systems.

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made.

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

Due to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, Tenstorrent is required to ensure compliance with licensing regulations when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries that have been licensing conditions set  by the U.S. government.

Our engineering positions and certain engineering support positions require access to information, systems, or technologies that are subject to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, please note that citizenship/permanent residency, asylee and refugee information and/or documentation will be required and considered as Tenstorrent moves through the employment process.

If a U.S. export license is required, employment will not begin until a license with acceptable conditions is granted by the U.S. government.  If a U.S. export license with acceptable conditions is not granted by the U.S. government, then the offer of employment will be rescinded.