Senior High-Speed Interconnect & Signal Integrity Engineer

Tenstorrent; California (MO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tenstorrent is seeking a senior High Speed Interconnect / Signal Integrity Engineer to design and validate high-bandwidth links for AI systems. You will define, model, and qualify interconnect solutions across copper and optical technologies for next-generation AI inference and training clusters.

The role is on-site in Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX, or Toronto, Canada, with experienced flexibility and offers to align with level; candidates from various backgrounds welcomed.

Qualifications

• An experienced electrical engineer with a Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years working on high-speed communications (100G-1.6T), including signal integrity, channels, and links.
• Comfortable building and owning link and channel budgets and making clear tradeoffs between reach, loss, BER, and margin.
• Hands-on with SI tools and lab equipment such as Keysight ADS, VNAs, TDRs, BERTs, and protocol analyzers.
• Familiar with cable specification and testing, as well as accelerated life testing, mating life, and failure analysis.
• Able to collaborate across hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams; manufacturing/DFM/DTM experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and specify high-speed interconnect architectures between systems within large AI clusters.
• Develop requirements, validation plans, and test strategies for passive and active copper cables and optical transceivers at 100G, 400G, 800G, and 1.6T.
• Document topologies, routing assumptions, and cable requirements for internal and customer-facing clusters.
• Perform link and channel budget analysis, including loss, jitter, eye margin, and BER considerations across PVT and aging.
• Lead and execute qualification and reliability testing, including accelerated life testing, mating life, and failure analysis for interconnect components.
• Interface with key industry suppliers, track their roadmaps, and align Tenstorrent's system designs to future interconnect capabilities.

Skills

High-speed communications

Signal integrity

Collaboration across teams

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Keysight ADS

VNAs

TDRs

BERTs

Protocol analyzers

Job description

Tenstorrent is seeking a senior High Speed Interconnect / Signal Integrity Engineer to design and validate high-bandwidth links for AI systems. You will define, model, and qualify interconnect solutions across copper and optical technologies for next-generation AI inference and training clusters.

The role is on-site in Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX, or Toronto, Canada, with experienced flexibility and offers to align with level; candidates from various backgrounds welcomed.