Team Description:

The Brain Interfaces Soc Department delivers chip architecture and silicon implementation of neural recording and stimulation system-on-chip (SoC) for high-bandwidth brain-machine interface applications. We have crafted a team of exceptional engineers whose mission is to push the frontiers of what is possible today and define the future. 

Job Responsibilities and Description: 

The Physical Design and Verification Engineer will be responsible for RTL to GDSII Physical Design Implementation, including Synthesis, Placement, Clock Tree Synthesis, Detailed Routing and Optimization, in addition to Physical Signoff Verification. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in digital physical design and verification.
• Excellence in complete RTL to GDSII flow with strong experience in the usage of industry-standard Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools for both physical design and timing signoff.
• Deep knowledge on industry standards and practices in physical design including physically-aware synthesis flow, floor-planning, and place & route, metal fill, chip finishing, signal integrity checks, and dynamic EMIR-Drop analysis, and formal ESD verification.
• Experience in Signoff ECO flow to fix timing, noise, IR-Drop and EMIR violations.
• Experience in physical design verification to debug LVS/DRC/PERC issues at the chip/block level using industry standard tools.
• Experience in developing automation flow and scripts using Python, Perl, Makefile, Tcl and UNIX shell.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working on physical design and implementation of complex ASIC systems at advanced technology nodes, preferably 16nm and below. 
• Experience in DFT (Design For Test) flows and ATPG.
• Experience in I/O design flow in multi-voltage power domain.
• Experience in building chip floor-plan including pin placement, partitions and power grid.
• Experience in hierarchical synthesis, place-and-route and design closure to meet timing, area, and UPF-driven low power constraints.
• Experience with build tools such as CMake and Bazel.
• Experience with code coverage and regression setup.

Principal Post Silicon Validation Engineer (Bringup)

Salary $241,100 - $326,100 + Phantom Equity + Benefits 

Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption.  

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Austin which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing.  

We are looking to hire Post-Silicon Validation Engineers to join our collaborative, cross-functional development team validating cutting edge, high performance AI chips and platforms. You will play a critical role in supporting new product introductions and post-silicon validation. Working within the Post-Silicon Validation team, you will be involved with bringing first silicon to life, functionally validating it and working closely with many other teams to help it become a fully characterised and working product, reporting project status/progress to program management on a regular basis. You will have the opportunity to, and be responsible for, leading, mentoring, and providing technical guidance to other engineering team members. In this role, you can leverage your experience and industry knowledge to architect and drive implementation of continuous improvements to test infrastructure and processes. 

The Post-Silicon Validation team sits within the Architecture and Validation team, we are responsible for validation of new silicon when it returns from manufacture, enabling and supporting the production SW and FW teams to bring up their software and also supporting the Silicon Characterisation team.  

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Plan, design, develop and debug silicon validation tests in bare metal C/C++ on FPGA/Emulator prior to first silicon 
• Deploy silicon validation tests on first silicon and debugging them 
• Develop automated test framework and regression test suites in Python to optimize validation efficiency 
• Collaborate closely with engineers from many other disciplines on a variety of topics 
• Work with Validation and Production Test engineering peers to implement best practices and continuous improvements to test methodologies 
• Analyse test results, identify and debug failures/defects 
• Contribute to shared test and validation infrastructure 
• Provide feedback to architects 

Essential skills: 

• Strong experience in Bare metal / embedded C/C++ 
• Good knowledge of digital ASICs
• Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player  
• Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues 
• Experience of the post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments 
• Python, Linux 
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others to solve problems
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical & diagnostic skills 

  Desirable skills: 

• Driver level experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable: 
  • PCIe 
  • Ethernet 
  • Memory technologies (LPDDR, DDR, HBM, …) 
  • Other peripherals such as I2C, I3C, SPI, … 
• Good knowledge of mixed-signal building blocks such as PLLs, high speed PHYs and IC control/communication protocols is highly desirable
• Experience of Arm CPUs, System IP and debug tools
• Experience of AMBA protocols
• Understanding of ML applications and their workloads
• Experience in Characterization, Failure Analysis, Test Development, Statistical analysis, and Customer Support 

Benefits:

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments. 

Senior Embedded SW/FW Engineer (Bringup)

Salary $156,500 - $211,700 + Phantom Equity + Benefits 

Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption.  

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Austin which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing.  

We are looking to hire Post-Silicon Validation Engineers to join our collaborative, cross-functional development team validating cutting edge, high performance AI chips and platforms. You will play a critical role in supporting new product introductions and post-silicon validation. Working within the Post-Silicon Validation team, you will be involved with bringing first silicon to life, functionally validating it and working closely with many other teams to help it become a fully characterised and working product, reporting project status/progress to program management on a regular basis. You will have the opportunity to, and be responsible for, leading, mentoring, and providing technical guidance to other engineering team members. In this role, you can leverage your experience and industry knowledge to architect and drive implementation of continuous improvements to test infrastructure and processes. 

The Post-Silicon Validation team sits within the Architecture and Validation team, we are responsible for validation of new silicon when it returns from manufacture, enabling and supporting the production SW and FW teams to bring up their software and also supporting the Silicon Characterisation team.  

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Plan, design, develop and debug silicon validation tests in bare metal C/C++ on FPGA/Emulator prior to first silicon 
• Deploy silicon validation tests on first silicon and debugging them 
• Develop automated test framework and regression test suites in Python to optimize validation efficiency 
• Collaborate closely with engineers from many other disciplines on a variety of topics 
• Work with Validation and Production Test engineering peers to implement best practices and continuous improvements to test methodologies 
• Analyse test results, identify and debug failures/defects 
• Contribute to shared test and validation infrastructure 
• Provide feedback to architects 

Essential skills: 

• Strong experience in Bare metal / embedded C/C++ 
• Good knowledge of digital ASICs
• Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player  
• Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues 
• Experience of the post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments 
• Python, Linux 
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others to solve problems
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical & diagnostic skills 

  Desirable skills: 

• Driver level experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable: 
  • PCIe 
  • Ethernet 
  • Memory technologies (LPDDR, DDR, HBM, …) 
  • Other peripherals such as I2C, I3C, SPI, … 
• Good knowledge of mixed-signal building blocks such as PLLs, high speed PHYs and IC control/communication protocols is highly desirable
• Experience of Arm CPUs, System IP and debug tools
• Experience of AMBA protocols
• Understanding of ML applications and their workloads
• Experience in Characterization, Failure Analysis, Test Development, Statistical analysis, and Customer Support 

Benefits:

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments. 

Principal Embedded SW/FW Engineer (Bringup)

Salary $241,100 - $326,100 + Phantom Equity + Benefits 

Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption.  

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Austin which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing.  

We are looking to hire Post-Silicon Validation Engineers to join our collaborative, cross-functional development team validating cutting edge, high performance AI chips and platforms. You will play a critical role in supporting new product introductions and post-silicon validation. Working within the Post-Silicon Validation team, you will be involved with bringing first silicon to life, functionally validating it and working closely with many other teams to help it become a fully characterised and working product, reporting project status/progress to program management on a regular basis. You will have the opportunity to, and be responsible for, leading, mentoring, and providing technical guidance to other engineering team members. In this role, you can leverage your experience and industry knowledge to architect and drive implementation of continuous improvements to test infrastructure and processes. 

The Post-Silicon Validation team sits within the Architecture and Validation team, we are responsible for validation of new silicon when it returns from manufacture, enabling and supporting the production SW and FW teams to bring up their software and also supporting the Silicon Characterisation team.  

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Plan, design, develop and debug silicon validation tests in bare metal C/C++ on FPGA/Emulator prior to first silicon 
• Deploy silicon validation tests on first silicon and debugging them 
• Develop automated test framework and regression test suites in Python to optimize validation efficiency 
• Collaborate closely with engineers from many other disciplines on a variety of topics 
• Work with Validation and Production Test engineering peers to implement best practices and continuous improvements to test methodologies 
• Analyse test results, identify and debug failures/defects 
• Contribute to shared test and validation infrastructure 
• Provide feedback to architects 

Essential skills: 

• Strong experience in Bare metal / embedded C/C++ 
• Good knowledge of digital ASICs
• Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player  
• Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues 
• Experience of the post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments 
• Python, Linux 
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others to solve problems
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical & diagnostic skills 

  Desirable skills: 

• Driver level experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable: 
  • PCIe 
  • Ethernet 
  • Memory technologies (LPDDR, DDR, HBM, …) 
  • Other peripherals such as I2C, I3C, SPI, … 
• Good knowledge of mixed-signal building blocks such as PLLs, high speed PHYs and IC control/communication protocols is highly desirable
• Experience of Arm CPUs, System IP and debug tools
• Experience of AMBA protocols
• Understanding of ML applications and their workloads
• Experience in Characterization, Failure Analysis, Test Development, Statistical analysis, and Customer Support 

Benefits:

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments. 

Senior Post Silicon Validation Engineer (Bringup)

Salary $156,500 - $211,700 + Phantom Equity + Benefits 

Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption.  

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Austin which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing.  

We are looking to hire Post-Silicon Validation Engineers to join our collaborative, cross-functional development team validating cutting edge, high performance AI chips and platforms. You will play a critical role in supporting new product introductions and post-silicon validation. Working within the Post-Silicon Validation team, you will be involved with bringing first silicon to life, functionally validating it and working closely with many other teams to help it become a fully characterised and working product, reporting project status/progress to program management on a regular basis. You will have the opportunity to, and be responsible for, leading, mentoring, and providing technical guidance to other engineering team members. In this role, you can leverage your experience and industry knowledge to architect and drive implementation of continuous improvements to test infrastructure and processes. 

The Post-Silicon Validation team sits within the Architecture and Validation team, we are responsible for validation of new silicon when it returns from manufacture, enabling and supporting the production SW and FW teams to bring up their software and also supporting the Silicon Characterisation team.  

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Plan, design, develop and debug silicon validation tests in bare metal C/C++ on FPGA/Emulator prior to first silicon 
• Deploy silicon validation tests on first silicon and debugging them 
• Develop automated test framework and regression test suites in Python to optimize validation efficiency 
• Collaborate closely with engineers from many other disciplines on a variety of topics 
• Work with Validation and Production Test engineering peers to implement best practices and continuous improvements to test methodologies 
• Analyse test results, identify and debug failures/defects 
• Contribute to shared test and validation infrastructure 
• Provide feedback to architects 

Essential skills: 

• Strong experience in Bare metal / embedded C/C++ 
• Good knowledge of digital ASICs
• Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player  
• Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues 
• Experience of the post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments 
• Python, Linux 
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others to solve problems
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical & diagnostic skills 

  Desirable skills: 

• Driver level experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable: 
  • PCIe 
  • Ethernet 
  • Memory technologies (LPDDR, DDR, HBM, …) 
  • Other peripherals such as I2C, I3C, SPI, … 
• Good knowledge of mixed-signal building blocks such as PLLs, high speed PHYs and IC control/communication protocols is highly desirable
• Experience of Arm CPUs, System IP and debug tools
• Experience of AMBA protocols
• Understanding of ML applications and their workloads
• Experience in Characterization, Failure Analysis, Test Development, Statistical analysis, and Customer Support 

Benefits:

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments. 

As an intern in the Physical Design (PD) team, you will work on high-performance designs going into industry leading AI/ML architectures. The student coming into this role will develop ML-based tools and flows to improve the PPA (Performance Power Area) and turnaround time for all aspects of chip implementation from synthesis to tapeout for various IPs. The work is done collaboratively with a group of highly experienced engineers across various domains of the ASIC.

This role is on-site, hybrid, based out of Santa Clara, CA working 4 days in office, 1 day remote. 

Who You Are

What We Need

• Ability to develop ML-based tools to improve PPA and turnaround time for chip implementation.
• Work closely with other PD engineers to develop ML tools for areas such as synthesis, PnR, timing closure, and power grid analysis.
• Responsibility for selecting appropriate datasets, data representation methods, and implementing new algorithms.
• Capability to run machine learning tests, perform statistical analysis, and fine-tune models using test results.

What You Will Learn

• How to apply ML systems and flows to high-performance designs for industry-leading AI/ML architectures.
• Practical experience in extending existing ML systems and implementing cutting-edge algorithms.
• Gain exposure to core physical design fundamentals, including synthesis, place and route, and timing analysis.
• Experience collaborating with a group of highly experienced engineers across various domains of the ASIC implementation.

As an intern in the Physical Design (PD) team, you will work on high-performance designs going into industry leading AI/ML architectures. The student coming into this role will develop ML-based tools and flows to improve the PPA (Performance Power Area) and turnaround time for all aspects of chip implementation from synthesis to tapeout for various IPs. The work is done collaboratively with a group of highly experienced engineers across various domains of the ASIC.

This role is on-site, 40 hours, based out of Santa Clara, CA or Austin, TX.

Who You Are

What We Need

• Ability to develop ML-based tools to improve PPA and turnaround time for chip implementation.
• Work closely with other PD engineers to develop ML tools for areas such as synthesis, PnR, timing closure, and power grid analysis.
• Responsibility for selecting appropriate datasets, data representation methods, and implementing new algorithms.
• Capability to run machine learning tests, perform statistical analysis, and fine-tune models using test results.

What You Will Learn

• How to apply ML systems and flows to high-performance designs for industry-leading AI/ML architectures.
• Practical experience in extending existing ML systems and implementing cutting-edge algorithms.
• Gain exposure to core physical design fundamentals, including synthesis, place and route, and timing analysis.
• Experience collaborating with a group of highly experienced engineers across various domains of the ASIC implementation.

Tenstorrent is seeking an experienced Field Application Engineer to champion our revolutionary RISC-V CPU and AI accelerator IP products with customers worldwide. You will own end-to-end technical engagements, translating complex architectural advantages into customer wins while shaping our product roadmap through direct market feedback. If you combine deep technical expertise with exceptional customer engagement skills and want to drive the adoption of next-generation compute IP, join our team.

This role is hybrid, based out of the United States or Canada near one of our main office locations.

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

Who You Are

• A customer-focused engineer with proven success in CPU/GPU/NPU IP sales engagements.
• Technical expert who can articulate complex architectural benefits and conduct deep-dive analyses.
• Self-driven professional who independently manages multiple customer relationships from discovery to win.
• Strategic thinker who identifies customer pain points and positions solutions effectively.

What We Need

• 7+ years in the semiconductor industry with a degree in EE or related field including customer-facing roles in CPU IP.
• Hands-on expertise with ASIC design flows, IP integration, and relevant design views (.lib, LEF, ICL, PDL).
• Deep technical knowledge of CPU architectures, semiconductor technologies, and system-level design.
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills with ability to engage all organizational levels.
• Proven track record of technical wins and managing multiple simultaneous accounts.

What You Will Learn

• How to position cutting-edge RISC-V and AI accelerator IP against industry incumbents.
• Advanced customer engagement strategies for complex technical sales in the semiconductor industry.
• Direct influence on product development through customer feedback and market insights.
• The complete IP business cycle from evaluation through design win and production success.

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made.

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

Tenstorrent is seeking a Signal Integrity Engineer to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will have a wealth of exposure designing high speed interconnects, breakout design, material trade-offs and verification. A background in electrical engineering, electronics or relevant fields is required. Must love all things high speed!

This role is hybrid, based out of Santa Clara, CA or Austin, TX or Toronto, ON.

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

Who You Are

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) and 5+ years working in high-speed digital design with a focus in high-speed PCB or package design at 10Gbps and above (e.g. 100GbE, GDDR6, PCIe Gen5+).
• You’re comfortable working with high-speed performance metrics such as ICR, ERL, COM, NEXT, and FEXT as well as knowledge of high-speed connector technologies, including NPO, CPO, and emerging standards.
• You are proficient with PCB ECAD tools (ideally Cadence Allegro).
• You communicate clearly (written and verbal), think critically, and love solving complex signal integrity problems.
• You’re enthusiastic about all things high speed and enjoy collaborating across teams

What We Need

• Design, extract, and simulate complex breakout structures, including end-to-end simulations and validation against physical hardware. Perform simulation and extraction of board models for both SI and PI.
• Contribute to design and sign-off with internal and external ASIC packaging teams, ODMs, and internal layout teams. Create design specifications, work with external vendors, and drive adoption of new interconnect and packaging technologies.
• Actively participate in design reviews, providing insight from your SI/PI expertise and a broader system perspective.
• Support post-silicon bring-up and help troubleshoot production and field failures related to signal and power integrity. Document design processes and provide training/knowledge sharing to other team members.

What You Will Learn

• How to work at the cutting edge of high-speed interconnects, influencing the next generation of ASIC packaging and PCB architectures.
• Deep exposure to advanced ASIC packaging flows and collaboration models with internal and external packaging teams.
• Hands-on experience with emerging high-speed connector technologies and materials, including evaluating material trade-offs for performance and manufacturability.
• Best practices for end-to-end SI/PI validation, from simulation through to lab correlation, post-silicon bring-up, and field failure analysis.

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made.

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

The role is Design for Test (DFT) for high-performance designs going into industry leading AI/ML architectures. The person coming into this role will be involved in all implementation aspects from RTL to tapeout for various IPs on the chip. High level challenges include reducing test cost while attaining high coverage, and facilitating debug and yield learnings while minimizing design intrusions. The work is done collaboratively with a group of highly experienced engineers across various domains of the ASIC.

This role is hybrid, based out of Santa Clara, CA or Austin, TX

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

Who You Are

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in EE/ECE/CE/CS with 5+ years of industry experience in advanced DFx/DFT for complex ASIC/SoC designs.
• You are fluent in Verilog RTL for DFT logic (lock-up latches, clock gates, scan anchors) and comfortable with SystemVerilog/UVM.
• You have hands-on experience with ATPG and DFx insertion tools, fault models (Stuck-at, Transition, Path Delay, IDDQ, Cell-Aware), and low-power design flows.
• You bring strong debug and problem-solving skills across design hierarchies and collaborate effectively with design, PD, verification, and test teams.

What We Need

• Implement and integrate DFT features (scan, JTAG, compression, ASST, MBIST) into RTL from early design through tapeout across multiple IPs.
• Own ATPG, test coverage analysis, and gate-level simulation (e.g., with Synopsys VCS/Verdi) to achieve and maintain high-quality test coverage.
• Plan, implement, and verify MBIST, and work closely with Test Engineering on test planning, pattern delivery, and debug.
• Develop and refine DFx flows and methodology that integrate cleanly with front-end and physical design flows, balancing coverage, test cost, and design intrusiveness.

What You Will Learn

• How to drive DFT for industry-leading AI/ML architectures, working on high-performance chips with aggressive performance and power targets.
• Practical strategies to reduce test cost while maintaining coverage, and to design DFT hooks that accelerate silicon bring-up and yield learning.
• How to minimize DFT intrusions while integrating cleanly with RTL, verification, physical design, and production test flows.
• How a senior, cross-functional ASIC team collaborates across design, PD, verification, and manufacturing to achieve first-pass silicon success on advanced nodes.

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made.

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

Tenstorrent is seeking talented Physical Design Engineers to implement high-performance blocks for our industry-leading CPU and AI/ML architectures. You'll own the complete implementation flow from synthesis to tapeout, working alongside world-class engineers to push the boundaries of performance, power, and area. If you're passionate about crafting silicon that powers the future of AI computing and thrive on solving complex design challenges, we want you on our team.

This role is hybrid, based out of Austin, TX, Santa Clara, CA or Fort Collins, CO. 

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

Who You Are

• A hands-on engineer with deep expertise in SOC/ASIC physical design and a track record of successful tapeouts.
• Passionate about optimizing PPA through innovative implementation techniques and close RTL collaboration.
• Strong problem solver who excels at debugging complex issues across design hierarchies.
• Collaborative team player who thrives in fast-paced, technically challenging environments.

Tenstorrent is seeking a talented Physical Design Engineer to implement high-performance blocks for our industry-leading CPU and AI/ML architectures. You'll own the complete implementation flow from synthesis to tapeout, working alongside world-class engineers to push the boundaries of performance, power, and area. If you're passionate about crafting silicon that powers the future of AI computing and thrive on solving complex design challenges, we want you on our team.

This role is hybrid, based out of Austin, TX or Santa Clara, CA or Fort Collins, CO.

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

Who You Are

• A hands-on engineer with deep expertise in SOC/ASIC physical design and a track record of successful tapeouts.
• Passionate about optimizing PPA through innovative implementation techniques and close RTL collaboration.
• Strong problem solver who excels at debugging complex issues across design hierarchies.
• Collaborative team player who thrives in fast-paced, technically challenging environments.

What We Need

• BS/MS/PhD in EE/ECE/CE/CS with proven experience in synthesis, PnR, and timing closure on taped-out designs.
• Expertise with industry-standard tools (FusionCompiler, PrimeTime, RedHawk) and scripting languages (Tcl, Perl, Python).
• Deep understanding of advanced node challenges and low-power design techniques (power gating, multi-Vt, voltage scaling).
• Experience driving physical design requirements from early architecture through final signoff.

What You Will Learn

• How to implement cutting-edge AI accelerators, high-performance CPUs and the SOCs that host them on the most advanced process nodes.
• Innovative PPA optimization techniques and methodologies for next-generation chiplet architectures.
• End-to-end ownership from flow development to signoff in collaboration with architecture and IP teams.
• Direct impact on products that are redefining the landscape of AI and high-performance computing.

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made.

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

The Hardware team at Hudson River Trading (HRT) creates high performance compute engines using FPGA and ASIC technology to drive low latency trading decisions on global markets. We build custom solutions across the spectrum of speed and smarts: from bespoke circuits to world-class machine learning accelerators.

FPGAs and ASICs are critical pieces of our technology stack. We are looking for talented hardware developers to architect and design complex systems on a highly collaborative global team. In this role, you'll identify efficient ways to perform on-the-fly transformations of market data and implement models with complex data structures in RTL. Deep knowledge of SystemVerilog, FPGA internals and/or ASIC primitives, computer architecture, and vendor tool suites are essential to succeeding in this role. Expertise in networking protocols, CPU design, and/or machine learning accelerators is a big plus. No financial experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop and deploy custom FPGA and/or ASIC solutions for a wide range of trading applications
• Investigate new technologies and tools
• Contribute to a nimble hardware development tech stack

Qualifications

• Ability to describe hardware designs at a high level, low level, or anywhere in between
• Brilliant design, optimization, debugging and problem solving skills
• Professional experience (2+ years) in RTL design for FPGA or ASIC
• Expert SystemVerilog development skills with a thorough understanding of the language 
• Expert on low level FPGA or ASIC architectures, with a deep understanding of what makes them "tick"
• Skilled in network communications, processing pipelines, and/or machine learning
• Working knowledge of Python and/or C++
• Comfortable in a Linux environment
• Strong verification experience
• Familiarity with AMD Vivado is a plus
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

The Hardware team at Hudson River Trading (HRT) creates high performance compute engines using FPGA and ASIC technology to drive low latency trading decisions on global markets. We build custom solutions across the spectrum of speed and smarts: from bespoke circuits to world-class machine learning accelerators.

These high performance designs require even higher performance verification. We are looking for experienced Design Verification (DV) engineers who are skilled at writing testbenches and building verification environments to exercise complex HDL. Our ideal candidate is not only an ace tester, but a practicing toolsmith. You know the EDA landscape and want to be part of a team actively working to rethink, redesign, and surpass the status quo. For example, members of our team are active maintainers of popular open source projects such as Slang, Verilator, and Cocotb.

FPGA and ASIC verification is part of an innovative, growing team at HRT which is integral to the success of our trading. You can expect to always be challenged by the ever-changing financial markets as you work to ensure correctness and robustness of our critical hardware in an extremely fast-paced, real-time environment. No financial experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Creating testbenches and tests for our hardware platform, leveraging a hybrid open-source/proprietary, highly flexible environment
• Writing detailed verification plans
• Quickly root-cause RTL bugs
• Collaborating directly with designers for rapid bringup of new projects and debugging of existing designs
• Managing test suites and continuous integration infrastructure
• Developing and improving open-source and internal tools

Qualifications 

• Superb debug and analytical skills 
• Professional experience (2+ years) in RTL functional verification for FPGA or ASIC
• Experience with code and functional coverage collection/analysis
• Experience with SystemVerilog and industry-standard frameworks such as UVM
• Experience with Python
• Comfortable in a Linux environment
• Familiarity with Verilator and/or Cocotb preferred
• C++ experience is a plus
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field

The estimated base salary range for this position is 175,000 to 250,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package.

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Physical Design Engineer with a broad, versatile skillset to join our growing Hardware team. In this role, you will help deliver performance-critical ASICs and advance our physical design methodologies on leading-edge process nodes.

The Hardware team at HRT builds high-performance compute engines using FPGA and ASIC technology to drive low-latency trading decisions on global markets. We create custom solutions across the full spectrum of speed and sophistication, from bespoke circuits to world-class machine learning accelerators.

Responsibilities

• Drive design-for-test (DFT) methodologies and implementation 
• Contribute to physical implementation, from RTL handoff through GDSII on advanced process nodes 
• Partner on floorplanning and physical optimization for high-performance, latency-critical designs
• Close timing across multiple modes and corners while optimizing power, performance, and area (PPA)
• Diagnose and resolve physical design issues such as timing bottlenecks, congestion, and IR/EM violations
• Build, maintain, and improve repeatable, automated physical design flows
• Develop scripts and tooling to improve productivity, robustness, and insight into design behavior
• Collaborate closely with RTL, architecture, and other hardware engineers to influence design decisions early

Qualifications

• Experience working in high-performance ASIC design environments
• Strong fundamentals in digital logic, circuit design, and process technology
• Familiarity with DFT concepts and testing methodologies
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Tcl, shell), including parsing and analyzing tool outputs
• Ability to design robust methodologies, diagnose complex failures, and improve physical design flows
• Applied use of statistics in analyzing timing, power, or design data (preferred)
• Hands-on experience with static timing analysis and timing closure methodologies
• Expertise using industry-standard physical design and signoff tools (e.g., Innovus, PrimeTime)

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

The estimated base salary range for this position is 200,000 to 300,000 USD per year (or local equivalent). The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans. Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US). Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

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Efficient is looking for a seasoned Design Verification & Emulation Manager to staff, lead and scale our verification and emulation organization which is part of our newly formed HW engineering organization. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for ensuring silicon correctness and system-level readiness across multiple industry defining product lines. You will own the verification strategy from block-level to full-chip, drive emulation-based validation for early software enablement, and build a world-class team of verification and emulation engineers.

This role combines deep technical expertise with strong people leadership and program execution skills, and is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of architecture, verification methodology, hardware-software integration, and team building. This is a unique opportunity to have an influence on our products and processes as we move from the initial stages of product development to market release and scaled volume production.  Join our team and help us shape the future of computing at the edge and beyond! 

Key Responsibilities 

• Define end-to-end verification strategy from block-level through full-chip simulation to emulation and prototyping
• Own UVM-based methodology, including constrained-random, coverage-driven closure, assertions, and formal verification adoption
• Drive emulation platform strategy — platform selection, capacity planning, compilation flows, and multi-project scheduling
• Enable system-level validation on emulation — processor boot, OS bring-up, firmware execution, and IO exercising
• Deliver pre-silicon platforms for early software development in partnership with firmware and software teams
• Establish hybrid simulation-emulation methodologies using transactor-based interfaces to maximize both environments
• Own functional coverage models and sign-off criteria, driving closure across simulation and emulation combined
• Lead debug and root cause analysis across simulation and emulation, driving cross-functional bug resolution
• Manage verification dashboards, bug tracking, and regression health to provide clear visibility to program leadership
• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of verification and emulation engineers
• Drive verification schedules and risk mitigation aligned with chip program milestones and tapeout readiness
• Represent verification and emulation in tapeout readiness reviews and program-level decision forums
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Compiler Team, RTL design, architecture, DFT, physical design, and post-silicon teams
• Manage emulation lab infrastructure, including hardware resources, licensing, and vendor relationships
• Evaluate and adopt new EDA tools and methodologies, including AI/ML-assisted verification techniques.
• Define right DV  mix for in-house  vs outsourcing to 3rd party vendors. Coordinate 3rd party vendor resources towards achieving project goals.

Required Qualifications & Experience 

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field. PhD is a plus.
• Experience: 12+ years of progressive experience in ASIC/SoC design verification, with at least 3–5 years in a management or senior technical leadership role overseeing both verification and emulation functions.
• Verification Methodology: Deep expertise in UVM, constrained-random verification, functional coverage, assertions (SVA), and simulation-based debug. Strong understanding of formal verification techniques.
• Emulation Platforms: Hands-on experience with at least one major emulation platform (Palladium, ZeBu, or Veloce) and familiarity with FPGA prototyping flows.
• Languages & Tools: Strong proficiency in SystemVerilog, Verilog, and C/C++ for testbench and reference model development. Experience with Python, Tcl, and scripting for flow automation.
• SoC Architecture: Solid understanding of modern SoC architectures — processors (ARM, RISC-V), cache coherency, interconnects (AMBA AXI/ACE/CHI), memory subsystems, and common peripherals.
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to build, mentor, and manage verification teams of 10+ engineers. Experience hiring, developing talent, and scaling teams.
• Execution: Strong track record of driving verification closure and tapeout sign-off on complex designs (multi-million gate, multi-clock domain, multi-power domain).

Preferred Qualification

• Experience with portable stimulus standard (PSS / Accellera) for verification reuse across simulation and emulation.
• Background in power-aware verification (UPF/CPF-based) and low-power design verification challenges.
• Experience with AI/ML-assisted verification techniques (e.g., intelligent coverage convergence, ML-driven regression optimization).

We offer a competitive salary for this role, generally ranging from $210,000 to $250,000, along with meaningful equity and comprehensive benefits. The final compensation package will be based on your experience and location, with some flexibility to ensure we align with the right candidate.

Efficient is seeking a Lead STA Engineer to join our growing team. The Timing Lead will work on timing convergence and methodology hands on for the world’s most energy-efficient, general-purpose processor. This role will be in the newly formed hardware engineering group and will focus on designing in state of the art finfet technologies. The role is cross functional and we are a integrated highly interdisciplinary team of world class engineers.

This is a unique opportunity to get in at the early stages of a hardware engineering organization and have influence on our products as we move from initial stages of product development to market release and scaled volume production. Join our team and help us shape the future of computing at the edge and beyond!

Key Responsibilities

• Drive and develop Timing flows, methodology for state of the art finfet and multi patterning  based technologies from scratch in Cadence Tempus or Synopsys Primetime.
• Own and drive timing convergence of IP, Subsystem and SOC blocks.
• Define timing margining, PVTRC corner definitions, extraction methodology , signoff timing to SYN/PNR correlation.
• Develop slew rate, glitch noise checks to ensure robust design quality.
• Develop custom timing checks as pertains to Efficients proprietary Ultra low power architecture.
• Work closely with RTL team, DFT and IP vendors to define and drive SDC constraints.
• Have an in-depth understanding of all collaterals for all hard and soft IPs used by the design.
• Partner with post-si products bring up team to ensure good pre-si to post-si correlation from a timing perspective.
• Work with 3rd party vendor resources and coordinate their work in the timing domain.
• Continuously work on improving flow consistency and efficiency in the context of multiple product type swim lanes.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of industry experience or PhD in Electrical Engineering with 3+ years of industry experience
• Proven track record of delivering IP/SS (or SoC) STA sign-off for multiple tape-outs in 12nm or below process technologies.
• Experience with EDA flow using Cadence/Synopsys/Mentor tools for STA/simulations (PT/Hspice) with hierarchical design and abstraction techniques
• Hands-on experience in  timing convergence of high-frequency and low power designs.
• Expert knowledge of static timing analysis, defining constraints and exceptions, corners/voltage definitions and timing margining.
• Experience with low power implementation typical in industry and how timing convergence impacts power draw ensuring we are making optimal tradeoffs.
• Excellent scripting skills in TCL, shell and python.

Desired Qualifications 

• Knowledge of computer architecture
• Knowledge of physical design and ASIC implementation
• Experience in full chip sign-off budgeting
• Knowledge of circuit design, device physics, deep sub-micron technology, and SOI technology and its implications to physical design
• Proficiency with industry-grade physical design flow and hands-on building CAD flow infrastructure for PD engineers.
• Definition of design constraints for static timing analysis (synthesis, pre/post‑cts, sign‑off) and corners/voltage definitions.
• Experience in integrating analog or mixed-signal macro on top-level design.

We offer a competitive salary for this role, generally ranging from $200,000 to $250,000, along with meaningful equity and comprehensive benefits. The final compensation package will be based on your experience and location, with some flexibility to ensure we align with the right candidate.

This role will be on-site 5 days a week in NW Austin.

**Must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer. We do not sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas (now or in the future) for this role.

We are looking for an experienced Design Verification Lead to drive the functional verification of complex SoC/IP designs from specification through tapeout in a newly formed hardware engineering organization. You will own the verification strategy, define methodology standards, build and guide a team of verification engineers, and serve as the final authority on verification quality and sign-off readiness. This role demands a strong blend of technical depth in modern verification methodologies (UVM, embedded C and compiler generated trace driven testing) and the leadership ability to execute across a multi-block chip program on schedul.e The DV Lead will help shape our internal processes for building robust and verified designs, including the company’s second product line, which will scale computing performance and capability, while improving energy efficiency.

This is a unique opportunity to have an influence on our products and processes as we move from the initial stages of product development to market release and scaled volume production.  Join our team and help us shape the future of computing at the edge and beyond!

Key Responsibilities 

• Define the end-to-end verification strategy across block, subsystem, and full-chip levels aligned with tapeout milestones
• Author and review verification plans mapping specifications to features, stimulus strategies(traditional stimulus generation, compiler driven), coverage goals, and sign-off criteria
• Architect scalable UVM-based testbench environments including agents, scoreboards, reference models, and coverage monitors
• Drive constrained-random stimulus development targeting protocol interactions, concurrency, error injection, and corner cases
• Define and close functional coverage models through systematic hole analysis, targeted tests, seed optimization, and regression tuning
• Deploy SystemVerilog Assertions for protocol compliance, interface checks, and design invariants across all simulation runs
• Lead full-chip verification including boot sequences, interrupt handling, DMA flows, power-on reset, and multi-block interactions
• Ensure CDC, RDC, and multi-power-domain verification in coordination with specialist tools and teams
• Debug complex simulation failures spanning multi-block interactions, protocol violations, race conditions, and timing-dependent corner cases
• Own the bug lifecycle — triage, prioritization, tracking, fix verification, and cross-functional resolution with RTL designers and architects
• Manage the regression framework — defining suites, maintaining stability, optimizing throughput, and integrating with CI/CD pipelines
• Coordinate simulation-to-emulation handoff ensuring verification collateral transitions effectively to emulation environments
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Compiler Team, RTL design, DFT, physical design, and post-silicon validation teams
• Lead, mentor, and grow the verification engineering team while maintaining a high quality bar through rigorous reviews
• Represent verification readiness in tapeout sign-off reviews and program-level decisions

• Support running gate-level simulations as part of design signoff.
• Assist in building a verification dashboard to quickly understand where a design is in the verification process and to identify regressions.

Required Qualifications & Experience 

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's/PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in ASIC/SoC design verification, with at least 3 years in a lead role owning verification strategy, sign-off, and team execution.
• UVM Mastery: Deep expertise in UVM-based testbench architecture and constrained-random verification methodology — not just usage, but architectural decision-making and optimization.
• SystemVerilog: Advanced proficiency in SystemVerilog for verification including classes, constraints, functional coverage, assertions (SVA), interfaces, and packages.
• Coverage Closure: Demonstrated track record of driving functional and code coverage to tapeout sign-off on complex, multi-million-gate SoC/ASIC designs.
• Debug Skills: Proven ability to debug deeply complex simulation failures spanning multiple design blocks, protocols, and abstraction levels.
• SoC Architecture: Strong understanding of modern SoC building blocks — processors (ARM, RISC-V), interconnects (AMBA AXI/ACE/CHI), memory controllers, DMA engines, interrupt controllers, and standard peripherals.
• Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in Python, Perl, or Tcl for test automation, log analysis, coverage post-processing, and regression flow development.
• Communication: Clear and effective communication of verification status, risk, and trade-offs to technical peers and program leadership.

We offer a competitive salary for this role, generally ranging from $200,000 to $230,000, along with meaningful equity and comprehensive benefits. The final compensation package will be based on your experience and location, with some flexibility to ensure we align with the right candidate.