Staff Digital Design Engineer — AI SoC & IP

Tenstorrent; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Tenstorrent is seeking a Staff Digital Design Engineer to define, build, and optimize high-performance IP and SoC architectures for next-gen AI workloads. You will work at the intersection of microarchitecture, RTL implementation, and performance-aware design, contributing across front- and back-end flows.

The role is hybrid, with options across multiple sites including Austin, TX, enabling collaboration with DV, firmware, and backend teams to push silicon performance while meeting power and

Qualifications

• Architecture and RTL implementation of Tenstorrent's custom IP blocks.
• Performance-aware design decisions for compute, interconnect, or memory-heavy blocks.
• Occasional contributions to validation using emulation, FPGA prototyping, or UVM flows.
• Strong synthesis and timing closure awareness to support backend teams.

Responsibilities

• Define, build, and optimize high-performance IP and SoC architectures.
• Collaborate with backend teams to meet power, performance, and area goals.

Skills

RTL design

Verilog/VHDL

PPA optimization

Collaborative eng

Tools

Emulation

FPGA prototyping

UVM flows

Job description

Tenstorrent is seeking a Staff Digital Design Engineer to define, build, and optimize high-performance IP and SoC architectures for next-gen AI workloads. You will work at the intersection of microarchitecture, RTL implementation, and performance-aware design, contributing across front- and back-end flows.

The role is hybrid, with options across multiple sites including Austin, TX, enabling collaboration with DV, firmware, and backend teams to push silicon performance while meeting power and