Software Engineer, Metal Runtime (Core Systems)

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. As a Software Engineer on the Metal Runtime team, you’ll work on the low-level software that powers AI accelerators, focusing on building and optimizing high-performance runtime systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize the Metal runtime that executes directly on our AI accelerators
• Develop bare-metal systems that manage compute execution, scheduling, and resource utilization
• Optimize memory movement and data flow across massively parallel hardware
• Work closely with hardware teams to maximize performance and efficiency of our architecture
• Debug, analyze, and tune runtime behavior across complex, distributed systems

Skills

• Strong coder in C or C++, and love working close to hardware
• Comfortable thinking in terms of threads, processors, and memory movement, and experienced writing fast, parallel code across multiple processors
• Enjoy optimizing execution, scheduling, and memory systems for performance at scale
• Comfortable debugging at the hardware/software boundary and reasoning about system behavior end-to-end
• Curious about how runtimes and bare-metal software come together to power AI
• Collaborative by nature and enjoy solving tough problems with smart people
• Build and optimize the Metal runtime that executes directly on our AI accelerators
• Develop bare-metal systems that manage compute execution, scheduling, and resource utilization
• Optimize memory movement and data flow across massively parallel hardware
• Work closely with hardware teams to maximize performance and efficiency of our architecture
• Debug, analyze, and tune runtime behavior across complex, distributed systems

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