Remote Sr. Engineer, System Firmware

Description:

• Tenstorrent is a leader in cutting-edge AI technology, focusing on performance, ease of use, and cost efficiency.
• The Systems Engineering team manages low-level operations from ASIC to system level, including pre-silicon activities to production.
• The Sr. Engineer, System Firmware will primarily focus on firmware development, infrastructure, and CI regression.
• The successful candidate will gain experience with ML processor architecture, embedded firmware development, board design, and debugging.
• Responsibilities include executing ML processor, board, and system bring-up and validation.
• The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining system firmware for embedded devices and systems.
• The engineer will work closely with local CM partners on system and firmware requirements.
• Building CI/CD pipelines to ensure quality firmware deliverables is a key responsibility.
• The position requires architecting and developing frameworks for automating post-silicon verification, data analysis, and debugging.
• The engineer will drive issue debugging across all product life cycle phases: bring-up, validation, and production.
• Code review and mentorship for other engineers will also be part of the role.
• This position is remote, primarily based out of Toronto, Canada.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor or Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with more than 5 years of experience is required.
• Candidates must possess superior analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent programming skills in C, C++, and Python are necessary.
• A strong understanding of computer architecture and logic design is essential.
• Experience in scripting and test automation is required.
• A good understanding of circuit design, power regulation, and high-speed signal propagation is needed.
• Candidates should have experience using lab equipment such as high-speed oscilloscopes and logic/protocol analyzers.
• An interest in and understanding of machine learning is important.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills are required.
• The ability to work cross-functionally and drive issues to closure is necessary.
• Fluency with Git for source code management and feature-branch workflows is required.
• Extensive experience with at least one modern RTOS (e.g., Zephyr, NuttX, FreeRTOS) is necessary.
• Extensive experience with bare-metal programming, OS kernel development, and device drivers is required.

Benefits:

• Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits.
• The company is an equal opportunity employer.
• Employment is subject to compliance with U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, requiring citizenship/permanent residency documentation.
• If a U.S. export license is required, employment will not begin until the license is granted by the U.S. government.