About the Role
Tenstorrent is seeking a senior High Speed Interconnect / Signal Integrity Engineer to design and validate high-bandwidth links for large-scale AI systems. You will define, model, and qualify interconnect solutions across copper and optical technologies for next-generation AI inference and training clusters.
Responsibilities
- Define and specify high-speed interconnect architectures between systems within large AI clusters.
- Develop requirements, validation plans, and test strategies for passive and active copper cables and optical transceivers at 100G, 400G, 800G, and 1.6T.
- Document topologies, routing assumptions, and cable requirements for internal and customer-facing clusters.
- Perform link and channel budget analysis, including loss, jitter, eye margin, and BER considerations across PVT and aging.
- Lead and execute qualification and reliability testing, including accelerated life testing, mating life, and failure analysis for interconnect components.
- Interface with key industry suppliers, track their roadmaps, and align Tenstorrent’s system designs to future interconnect capabilities.
Requirements
- An experienced electrical engineer with a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering.
- 5+ years working on high-speed communications (100G–1.6T), including signal integrity, channels, and links.
- Comfortable building and owning link and channel budgets and making clear tradeoffs between reach, loss, BER, and margin.
- Hands-on with SI tools and lab equipment such as Keysight ADS, VNAs, TDRs, BERTs, and protocol analyzers.
- Familiar with cable specification and testing, as well as accelerated life testing, mating life, and failure analysis.
- Able to collaborate across hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams; manufacturing/DFM/DTM experience is a plus.
Skills
- Signal Integrity
- High-speed communications
- Link and channel budgets
- Keysight ADS
- VNAs
- TDRs
- BERTs
- Protocol analyzers
- Cable specification and testing
- Accelerated life testing
- Mating life
- Failure analysis
- Manufacturing/DFM/DTM
Location
- Santa Clara, CA
- Austin, TX
- Toronto, Canada
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- Senior
- Various experience levels
Education Level
- Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering
- Master's in Electrical Engineering
Salary/Compensations
- $100k - $500k
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation package
About the Company
- Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency.
- With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors.
- Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible.
- We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems.
- We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicant being eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology.
- Due to U.S. export laws, including those codified in the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Company is required to ensure compliance with these laws when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries (such as EAR Country Groups D:1, E1, and E2).
- These requirements apply to persons located in the U.S. and all countries outside the U.S.
- As the position offered will have direct and/or indirect access to information, systems, or technologies subject to these laws, the offer may be contingent upon your citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency.
- If employment is not possible due to U.S. export laws, any offer of employment will be rescinded.
