Software Engineer, Acceleration Kernel Development

Tenstorrent•Toronto, ON

1d•$100,000 - $500,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Software Engineer on the Acceleration Kernel Development team at Tenstorrent, you’ll work at the intersection of software and hardware performance. You’ll be writing low-level code that directly powers high-efficiency machine learning workloads, optimizing every cycle, every memory move, every instruction. If you're motivated by performance, precision, and real impact, this is where your skills will shine. This role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, ON. 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.

Requirements

Expertise in building and optimizing compute kernels for parallel ML and high-performance workloads.
Ability to analyze and tune instruction-level performance across latency, memory, and bandwidth.
A collaborative mindset to work closely with ML engineers and integrate optimizations into production.
Ownership of debugging, profiling, and maintaining a fast, reliable low-level software stack.
Great in C/C++ and able to build fast, efficient code from the ground up.
Obsessed with performance and precision, especially in ML workloads.
Motivated by complex problems and thrives in collaborative, fast-moving environments.

Nice To Haves

A developer who loves high performance code, parallel algorithms, wrangling bits, optimizing compute, and making hardware fly.

Responsibilities

Building and optimizing compute kernels for parallel ML and high-performance workloads.
Analyzing and tuning instruction-level performance across latency, memory, and bandwidth.
Collaborating with ML engineers to integrate optimizations into production.
Debugging, profiling, and maintaining a fast, reliable low-level software stack.