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Software Engineer, Metal Runtime (Core Systems)

Remote-first Full-time Now hiring

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. As a Software Engineer on the Metal Runtime team, you’ll work on the low-level software that powers AI accelerators, focusing on building and optimizing high-performance runtime systems.

Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize the Metal runtime that executes directly on our AI accelerators
  • Develop bare-metal systems that manage compute execution, scheduling, and resource utilization
  • Optimize memory movement and data flow across massively parallel hardware
  • Work closely with hardware teams to maximize performance and efficiency of our architecture
  • Debug, analyze, and tune runtime behavior across complex, distributed systems

Skills

  • Strong coder in C or C++, and love working close to hardware
  • Comfortable thinking in terms of threads, processors, and memory movement, and experienced writing fast, parallel code across multiple processors
  • Enjoy optimizing execution, scheduling, and memory systems for performance at scale
  • Comfortable debugging at the hardware/software boundary and reasoning about system behavior end-to-end
  • Curious about how runtimes and bare-metal software come together to power AI
  • Collaborative by nature and enjoy solving tough problems with smart people
  • Build and optimize the Metal runtime that executes directly on our AI accelerators
  • Develop bare-metal systems that manage compute execution, scheduling, and resource utilization
  • Optimize memory movement and data flow across massively parallel hardware
  • Work closely with hardware teams to maximize performance and efficiency of our architecture
  • Debug, analyze, and tune runtime behavior across complex, distributed systems

Company Overview

  • Tenstorrent develops AI hardware and software solutions for data processing and machine learning application. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, CAN, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://tenstorrent.com.
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