CPU Core Performance Verification Engineer

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Fort Collins, CO
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Hardware • Manufacturing
The Role

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities.

Tenstorrent is seeking a CPU performance verification engineer to join our dynamic team. As a performance engineer you will play a crucial role in ensuring the performance of our CPUs through creation of performance stimulus and debug of custom and industry standard workloads. You will work closely with design and architecture teams to validate the performance of our advanced CPU designs.

This role is hybrid, based out of Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX or Fort Collins, CO


Responsibilities:

  • Develop test plans and stimulus for performance verification
  • Perform simulations using standard tools and emulation
  • Bring up of industry standard and open-source performance workloads
  • Debug sources of miscorrelation between RTL design and performance model
  • Identify bottlenecks and work with team members to make fixes in performance model and/or RTL
  • Work with design, test and post silicon validation teams to ensure high quality delivery of the entire CPU core
  • Creation, enhancement and maintenance of performance tracking infrastructure, reports and debug tools


Experience and qualifications:

  • BS/MS/PhD in EE/ECE/CE/CS
  • Strong background and experience with high performance OOO CPU microarchitecture
  • Experience and understanding of one or more ISAs - x86, ARM or RISCV
  • Experience debugging RTL and DV in a simulation environment, proficient at waveform and log file based debug
  • Experienced with assembly, C/C++ and stimulus generation targeting both ISA and micro-architectural scenarios
  • Hands-on with scripting (Python, PERL)
  • Experience with hardware description languages (Verilog, VHDL) and simulators (VCS, NC, Verilator)
  • Strong problem solving and debug skills across various levels of design hierarchies


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  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.

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The Company
HQ: Toronto, ON
389 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with U.S. offices in Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley, and global offices in Belgrade and Bangalore, Tenstorrent brings together experts in the field of computer architecture, ASIC design, advanced systems, and neural network compilers.

Join us: www.tenstorrent.com/careers

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