Sr. Rust Developer, Platform Engineering

The systems tooling team is responsible for the base level tooling that all customers and developers use.  This role involves the upkeep of current Rust libraries like Luwen, which are used for low-level hardware interaction. It also includes the possibility and eventual transition of some current and future tooling to Rust libraries. This will also involve creating and maintaining appropriate ci/cd infrastructure relating, and helping to deal with and maintain appropriate packaging in various forms.  Interacting with the Linux kernel, and experience coding on/in the kernel considered a plus.  The position is expected to focus on the low level of general purposes operating systems as opposed to embedded rust development.

This role is hybrid OR remote, based out of Portland, OR, Toronto, ON, Austin, TX, Santa Clara, CA.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining, expanding, and improving existing rust code and libraries to better interact not only with the hardware itself but with the Linux Kernel and other systems relating to Tenstorrent hardware.
• Creation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines in Github
• Automation of release pipelines relating to existing and future projects
• Working with developers to develop more extensive integrations and testing in the CI/CD pipeline

Experience & Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master’s in Electrical or Computer Engineering with more than 3 years of relevant experience
• Ability to understand multiple different programming languages and their respective build systems, including Rust, C, C++, Python
• Specific interest in extensive Rust knowledge as well as low level hardware interactions and potentially system drivers.
• Familiarity with existing ci/cd pipeline frameworks
• Experience in scripting and test automation
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work cross functionally and with multiple teams and systems
• Familiarity with Github ci/cd workflows and automation systems
• Systems level knowledge on Linux, and specific interest in low level systems knowledge pertaining to Ubuntu, Fedora, Enterprise Linux, SuSE, etc Linux distributions.

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.