We are looking for a Staff Digital Design Engineer to help define, build, and optimize high-performance chiplet based SoC architectures. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive at the intersection of microarchitecture, RTL implementation, and performance and power aware design.

This role is hybrid, based out of Tokyo.

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 digital design expert with a deep understanding of computer architecture and IP microarchitecture.
• Skilled in RTL development (Verilog/VHDL) and familiar with full ASIC flows.
• Comfortable optimizing for power, performance, and area (PPA) under aggressive design goals.
• A naturally collaborative and technical engineer — you thrive in spec definition, peer reviews, and team-wide planning.
• Strong synthesis and timing closure awareness to support backend teams.

What We Need

• Proficiency in hardware description languages (HDLs) such as Verilog, SystemVerilog or VHDL.
• Architecture and RTL implementation of Tenstorrent’s custom IP blocks and SoC components.
• Performance-aware design decisions for compute, interconnect, or memory-heavy blocks.
• Occasional contributions to validation using emulation, FPGA prototyping, or UVM flows.
• Prior experience in on-chip fabric and interconnect designs and basic understanding of RISC-V Architecture and debug experience is preferable.

What You Will Learn

• How cutting-edge chiplet design are built, from spec to silicon.
• What it takes to collaborate with teams designing novel processor and memory architectures.
• How cross-functional workflows come together across design, DV, physical, and firmware teams.

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

This position requires access to technology that requires a U.S. export license for persons whose most recent country of citizenship or permanent residence is a U.S. EAR Country Groups D:1, E1, or E2 country. 

We are looking for a person ready to take up the challenge of working in a high-profile project where we integrate multiple chiplets into a System-in-package, in collaboration with external stakeholders. You will work with Tenstorrent worldwide experts and leaders in the USA, Japan and other countries, and help us make our IP even better.

In this role, you will ensure functionality and performance of the system.

This role is based out of Tokyo, Japan and offer flexible Hybrid work style.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Verify Tenstorrent’s digital IP and SoC logic at chiplet integration level, using industry standard verification methodologies
• Build and improve components of verification infrastructure including model builds and simulation/regression runs,
• Create verification components like testbenches, checkers and test generators,
• Add assertions and coverages along associated methodologies,
• Build verification test plans for subsystems, align them with project stakeholders, implement test suites, summarize the results and share feedback with project stakeholders
• Publish and review verification metrics and drive convergence towards tape-out,
• Work across boundaries with architects, software and design/emulation teams,
• Guide and mentor junior engineers.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in electrical, computer engineering or computer science
• Proven experience in CPU or SoC verification
• Over 10 years of experience with verification flows, scripting and automation
• Good knowledge of logic design
• Knowledge of Verilog//v2k/system Verilog
• Strong problem solving skills
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Good English language skills (written and spoken)

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of RISC-V, machine learning, die-to-die, memory controllers, PCIe, UCIe
• Knowledge of low level drivers and firmware in C
• Fluency in Japanese
• Japanese work visa

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

About Tokyo

Applied Intuition entered the Japan market in 2019. The company has rapidly grown and established strategic relationships with major Japanese automotive OEM customers. Based in Otemachi area, the Tokyo site consists of more than 60 employees who previously come from Woven by Toyota, Mobileye, TIER IV, Google, Siemens and other renowned companies. We are hiring our first new graduate class - want to learn more?

About the role

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Support the mechanical engineering development of Applied Vehicles.
• Contribute to the mechanical design of the external sensor suite, compute assembly, and interior of the vehicles.
• Perform structural and thermal analysis of mechanical designs
• Own the design, analysis, and validation of the system from the component level, assembly level, and the fully integrated vehicle
• Design with a focus on scalability and manufacturability 
• Work cross-functionally to ensure the requirements and mechanical designs meet the needs of all the teams within the organization
• Verify that the designed components can be properly installed on the vehicle without issues through hands-on validation

We're looking for someone who has:

• BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering
• Fluency in both English and Japanese (written and verbal), with the ability to operate effectively in a bilingual business environment
• 2+ year of experience designing hardware and shipping products
• Demonstrated experience in FEA/CAE
• Experience with hardware reliability and testing
• NVH experience is a plus
• Perform incoming IQC on design hardware including visual inspection, pressure testing, and firmware flashing
• CNC, Machining, Metal Working and Welding experience
• Experience with Automotive Repair and Maintenance
• Experience working with AV Components Lidars, Radars, Camera etc
• Design, draw and prototype custom harness cable
• Familiarity using CAD (Solidworks Preferred) to navigate, design or modify 3D  models
• Setup device under test and execute test scripts provided by test engineers
• Produce and develop detailed documentation for test, maintenance, safety, and team processes
• Work directly with engineers to design, fabricate, and assemble custom test fixtures

Benefits and perks:

• Lunch and dinner allowance
• Equity (RSU) offering
• English / Japanese language allowance
• Company sponsored housing program
• Pension plan (確定拠出年金)

About Tokyo

Applied Intuition entered the Japan market in 2019. The company has rapidly grown and established strategic relationships with major Japanese automotive OEM customers. Based in the Otemachi area, the Tokyo site consists of more than 60 employees who previously come from Google, Mobileye, TIER IV, Woven by Toyota, Tesla and other renowned companies.

We are continuing to look for experienced and motivated talents across the world to come join our Tokyo team! We are open to considering anyone interested in pursuing a career at Applied Intuition Tokyo office.

About the role

As a Hardware Integration Engineer you will be an integral part of the commissioning of new vehicles for our various projects at Applied Intuition. Your contributions will enable and make more effective broader hardware integration work being done on our vehicle fleets and drive quality and stability improvements for our vehicles being released for the road. You will primarily be responsible for the provisioning of new vehicle hardware, including sensors and computers, and then conducting validation testing at multiple stages of the vehicle build lifecycle.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Support hardware integration efforts and development of Applied vehicles.
• Conduct component provisioning, ensuring that a wide variety of components are ready for integration into a vehicle.
• Validate integrated vehicle builds at the system and vehicle level.
• Scale our provisioning and validation efforts to support larger vehicle fleets.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure that the provisioning and validation needs of various teams and projects are being met.

We're looking for someone who has:

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or similar
• 2+ years experience working with automotive hardware and software
• Experience with hardware reliability and testing
• Experience with AV components (LiDAR, RADAR, Cameras, etc.)
• Experience creating and executing test plans

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of automotive communication (CAN/CAN FD, LIN, Automotive Ethernet)
• Knowledge/Experience with common CAN/CAN FD tools (Vector, PCAN View/Explorer)
• Experience flashing software/firmware updates on hardware (ECUs, etc)

Role Overview  
We are looking for a Sr. Control System Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to integrate and maintain the hardware and software systems that enable QuEra’s quantum controls and software stack. You’ll work closely with software engineers, physicists, hardware and test engineers to install, upgrade, maintain, test and troubleshoot multiple hardware and software control systems for our Quantum Computers. This role is a foundational systems engineering role to ensure the reliability, stability, and operational functionality of both our development and production environments.  

Key Responsibilities  

• Implement, maintain and test software and hardware in a heterogeneous system that controls disparate computer system devices. 

• Define, document, implement and test procedures for QuEra’s Quantum computer operations. 

• Manage science, development and testing infrastructure, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) setups, containerized services (K8S), routers, switches, and test systems. 

• Propose, and/or implement automated provisioning, configuration, and orchestration of local and remote compute systems used in controlling and testing, simulations.  

• Collaborate with software and test engineering teams to ensure smooth integration/deployment of DevOps tools with custom hardware and quantum-specific workflows.  

• Maintain artifact repositories, test result dashboards, and infrastructure for tracking regressions and system health.  

• Establish and enforce best practices for access control, system configuration, and lab operations.  

• Support incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for CI/CD failures or system anomalies. 

• Implement automation for monitoring and alerting for systems and services, integrating logs and metrics from embedded systems, test benches, and orchestration layers. 

• Work with CI/CD pipelines for building, testing, and deploying software and firmware across the quantum control stack. 

Required Qualifications  

• Practical implementation of LAN and WAN technologies on switches and routers (to include but not be limited to VLAN configuration, DNS, DHCP, and TCP/IP based services) 

• Practical Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat) and Windows Administration experience, to include but not be limited to network operations and, application installation and debugging 

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go, and familiarity with tools like Docker, Git, and Kubernetes.  

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins) and infrastructure-as-code platforms (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, or similar).  

• Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack) and logging systems for real-time data monitoring.  

• Hands on experience with rack mount servers 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.  

• 10+ years of experience in a Network SQA, Systems Engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.  

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience supporting hybrid systems involving embedded devices, custom hardware, or real-time control systems.  

• Knowledge of secure software deployment and Product life cycles.  

• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop pipelines or distributed lab/test automation environments.  

• Exposure to scientific computing, HPC, or quantum software stacks is a plus.  

• Ability to thrive in fast-moving, interdisciplinary R&D teams.  

We consistently monitor external market data and update base salary ranges accordingly.  We determine base compensation decisions on several factors, including as geographic placement, role-specific knowledge, skills, and/or experience.  In addition to our base salary offerings, we also provide equity grants for all new hires.