Principal Physical Design Flow Engineer, AI Silicon

Tenstorrent in Austin, TX

The Tenstorrent team combines technologists from different disciplines who come together with a shared passion for AI and a deep desire to build great products. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. Find out more about our culture .

Develop physical design flow for high-performance designs going into industry leading AI/ML architecture. The person coming into this role will be involved in all aspects of optimizing flows from synthesis to tape-out for various IPs on the chip. The work is done alongside a group of highly experienced engineers across various domains of the AI chip.
Locations:
Austin, TX | Santa Clara, CA | Fort Collins, CO

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

Due to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, Tenstorrent is required to ensure compliance with licensing regulations when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries that have been sanctioned by the U.S. government.

As this position will have direct and/or indirect access to information, systems, or technologies that are subject to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, please note that citizenship/permanent residency information and/or documentation will be required and considered as Tenstorrent moves through the employment process.
    • Work closely with physical design team and tool vendors to define flow requirements
    • Flow tasks may include enabling targets such as floor-planning, synthesis, PnR, timing and phy closure
    • Optimize and support PnR flow to ensure quality results on schedule
    • Discussions with vendor tool providers, foundry partners and design services
    • End to end tasks from flow development to sign-off
    • Deploy innovative techniques for improving power, performance and area of the design, drive experiments with PD, and evaluate PnR, timing and power results
    • BS/MS/PhD in EE/ECE/CE/CS
    • Hands-on experience with synthesis, block and chip level implementation with industry standard PnR flows and tools
    • Strong experience in SOC/ASIC/GPU/CPU design flows on taped out designs, expertise in timing closure at block/chip levels and ECO flows
    • Experience with back-end design tools such as Primetime, Innovus, RedHawk, etc.
    • Knowledge of low-power design flows such as power gating, multi-Vt and voltage scaling
    • Strong programming skills in Tcl/Perl/Shell/Python
    • Excellent understanding of logic design fundamentals and gate/transistor level implementation
    • Exposure to DFT is an asset
    • Prior experience working on high performance technology nodes and understanding of deep sub-micron design problems/solutions
    • Strong problem solving and debug skills across various levels of design hierarchies
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