[Hiring] Datacenter & Agentic AI Workload Performance Analysis Engineer @Tenstorrent

Role Description

Tenstorrent is looking for a Workload Performance Analysis Engineer to help shape the performance of our next-generation RISC-V CPUs across modern datacenter and agentic AI workloads. In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of hardware and software, bringing real-world applications onto RISC-V platforms, characterizing their behavior, and using workload analysis to uncover opportunities for better CPU performance, efficiency, and scalability.

• Work closely with CPU architects, RTL designers, software engineers, and compiler teams.
• Understand how demanding workloads exercise the CPU and translate insights into architectural improvements.
• Reduce large production workloads for performance modeling.
• Correlate simulation results with hardware behavior.
• Your work will directly influence CPU architecture and performance across cloud, enterprise, and emerging AI workloads.

This role is remote based out of North America. 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.

Qualifications

• Strong background in CPU performance analysis, workload characterization, or computer architecture.
• Experience connecting software behavior to hardware performance.
• Understanding of modern CPU microarchitecture, including superscalar pipelines, speculative execution, memory hierarchies, and vector/SIMD architectures.
• Enjoy digging into complex workloads, using profiling and simulation data to identify bottlenecks and turn analysis into actionable recommendations.
• Comfortable working across hardware and software, from CPU microarchitecture and RTL to operating systems, compilers, runtimes, and applications.
• Strong technical communicator who enjoys collaborating with architects, designers, and software engineers on complex performance problems.

Requirements

• PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Strong research or industry experience in workload characterization, benchmark development, performance analysis, or simulation.
• Deep understanding of CPU architecture and RISC-V, including pipelines, speculative execution, vector/SIMD extensions, memory hierarchies, and performance tradeoffs.
• Hands-on experience with performance analysis and simulation tools such as Linux perf, strace, QEMU, or CPU microarchitecture simulators.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++, Python, Bash/Shell, and assembly or intrinsic programming.
• Experience working close to the hardware/software boundary.
• Strong understanding of systems software, including operating systems, virtualization, compilers, runtimes, and GNU/RISC-V software ecosystems.

Benefits

• Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets.
• Highly competitive compensation package and benefits.
• Equal opportunity employer.