Remote CPU Cluster Performance Architect

Tenstorrent; Santa Clara (CA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tenstorrent seeks a CPU Cluster Performance Architect to shape the performance and scalability of our next-generation CPUs. You will analyze how cores, caches, interconnects, and memory systems interact, using performance models and simulation to identify bottlenecks and guide architectural choices.

You will collaborate with CPU architects, RTL, software, and compiler teams across North America to translate insights into design decisions, impacting cluster-level performance and chiplet-based

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in CPU microarchitecture and performance.
• Experience with modeling, simulation, and workload analysis to identify bottlenecks.
• Ability to translate performance data into architectural recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and optimize CPU cluster performance, including caches, interconnects, and memory behavior.
• Build and use performance models and simulation environments to evaluate concepts.
• Study workloads to understand bottlenecks related to cache misses, coherence, and bandwidth.
• Lead architectural trade-off studies across performance, scalability, and latency.
• Collaborate with CPU, cache, interconnect, memory, software, and system architects.

Skills

CPU microarchitecture

Performance modeling

Simulation

Multi-core scaling

System-level analysis

Tools

Gem5

Job description

Tenstorrent seeks a CPU Cluster Performance Architect to shape the performance and scalability of our next-generation CPUs. You will analyze how cores, caches, interconnects, and memory systems interact, using performance models and simulation to identify bottlenecks and guide architectural choices.

You will collaborate with CPU architects, RTL, software, and compiler teams across North America to translate insights into design decisions, impacting cluster-level performance and chiplet-based