Staff Technical Program Manager - Physical Design
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 .
This hybrid role is for a technical program manager with a background in physical design. Tenstorrent has simultaneous projects active in the pursuit of high-performance designs going into industry leading AI/ML architectures. The person coming into this role will be active in the design of an AI/ML or CPU processor, serve as an externally facing representative of the team, help with project milestones and commitments, analyze deliverable dependencies, and help ensure cross-team alignment of priorities.
Position can be located in Austin, TX or Santa Clara, CA
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.
- Own a place and route block to immersively understand the design team challenge
- Lead cross-functional teams of engineers, design, and manufacturing to execute on project objectives.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including chip architects, circuit designers, and manufacturing teams to ensure design and manufacturing processes are aligned with project goals.
- Own the Physical Design Specification with versions for external clients, for internal stakeholders, and (the most detailed) for the PD Team
- Compute and CAD license usage analysis
- Project management of design services partners
- Various aspects of client interface including direct retrieval of design collaterals, milestone tracking, and status updates
- Foundry communications interface
- Create web-based block status dashboard
- BS/MS/PhD in EE/ECE/CE/CS
- 5+ years of experience in technical program management in the semiconductor industry.
- Experience with synthesis, place and route flows and tools
- Good familiarity with timing, EM/IR, power analysis, and physical verification
- Well organized
- Excellent communication skills
- Evidence for building and maintaining relationships with internal teams and external clients