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Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Tenstorrent · Austin, Texas, United States; Santa Clara, California, United States; Santa Clara, California, United States; Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Santa Clara

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Infrastructureonsitestaff$100k–$500k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build directly with customers using Tenstorrent AI computers in production.
  • Own deployments end-to-end and turn field insights into product improvements.
  • Learn how hardware-software co-design unlocks latency and throughput gains.

Ideal candidate

A customer-obsessed engineer who loves debugging full-stack AI systems and operating production deployments. You thrive on autonomy, translate ambiguity into action, and use AI to multiply your impact while bridging customers and core engineering.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant technical experience with strong software engineering skills
  • Experience turning ambiguous customer requirements or issues into verifiable acceptance criteria
  • Kubernetes and Helm experience at multi-node, HPC, or AI cluster scale
  • Experience with observability and infrastructure automation, e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
  • Experience with LLM inference serving engines and technologies, e.g. vLLM, SGLang, Mooncake, NIM, Dynamo, LMCache
  • Understand how accelerator compute, memory, and networking topology constrain AI workloads
  • Comfortable debugging across the full inference stack from failing requests to OOMs or kernel dispatch
remote policy
Remote based in North America
hiring process
Candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level during the interview process

Lab profile

About Tenstorrent

Builds high-performance RISC-V CPUs and AI accelerators with full-stack software for efficient AI computing.

What they build

  • AI accelerators
  • RISC-V CPUs
  • AI software and compilers

Known for

  • Custom RISC-V CPU development from scratch
  • Full-stack AI hardware and software
  • Performance, ease of use and cost efficiency

Key facts

  • Founded in 2016
  • Headquartered in Toronto, Canada
  • Backed by Samsung and Hyundai Motor Group
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