Remote Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Tenstorrent; Santa Clara, Austin (CA, TX); Hybrid; CAD 139,000 - 694,000; Full time

Job summary

Tenstorrent is hiring for a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge customers, engineering, and AI inference services. You will contribute production code, operate deployments, and articulate trade-offs to leadership and engineers alike.

This high-autonomy role directly impacts customer outcomes and requires strong cloud-native and AI infrastructure expertise. The role supports remote work in North America, with preferred proximity to hubs in Santa Clara, Austin, or Toronto.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills with 5+ years of relevant technical experience.
• Experience turning ambiguous customer requirements into verifiable acceptance criteria.
• Kubernetes and Helm experience at multi-node, HPC, or AI cluster scale.
• Experience with observability and infrastructure automation (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with LLM inference serving engines and technologies (e.g. vLLM, Mooncake, NIM, LMCache).

Responsibilities

• Build continuity between customers, engineering, and AI inference service products.
• Contribute production code and operate deployments.
• Explain trade-offs to customer leadership as clearly as to core engineering teams.
• Work in a high-autonomy role with direct customer impact.

Skills

Software engineering

Kubernetes

Helm

Observability

LLM serving

Distributed systems

Customer collaboration

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

vLLM

Mooncake

NIM

LMCache

Job description

Tenstorrent is hiring for a Forward Deployed Engineer to bridge customers, engineering, and AI inference services. You will contribute production code, operate deployments, and articulate trade-offs to leadership and engineers alike.

This high-autonomy role directly impacts customer outcomes and requires strong cloud-native and AI infrastructure expertise. The role supports remote work in North America, with preferred proximity to hubs in Santa Clara, Austin, or Toronto.