Staff Engineer, SoC RTL Engineer

We are looking for a Staff Digital Design Engineer to help define, build, and optimize high-performance chiplet based SoC architectures. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive at the intersection of microarchitecture, RTL implementation, and performance and power aware design.

This role is hybrid, based out of Tokyo.

• A digital design expert with a deep understanding of computer architecture and IP microarchitecture.
• Skilled in RTL development (Verilog/VHDL) and familiar with full ASIC flows.
• Comfortable optimizing for power, performance, and area (PPA) under aggressive design goals.
• A naturally collaborative and technical engineer — you thrive in spec definition, peer reviews, and team-wide planning.
• Strong synthesis and timing closure awareness to support backend teams.

• Proficiency in hardware description languages (HDLs) such as Verilog, SystemVerilog or VHDL.
• Architecture and RTL implementation of Tenstorrent’s custom IP blocks and SoC components.
• Performance-aware design decisions for compute, interconnect, or memory-heavy blocks.
• Occasional contributions to validation using emulation, FPGA prototyping, or UVM flows.
• Prior experience in on-chip fabric and interconnect designs and basic understanding of RISC-V Architecture and debug experience is preferable.

• →How cutting-edge chiplet design are built, from spec to silicon.
• →What it takes to collaborate with teams designing novel processor and memory architectures.
• →How cross-functional workflows come together across design, DV, physical, and firmware teams.

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

This position requires access to technology that requires a U.S. export license for persons whose most recent country of citizenship or permanent residence is a U.S. EAR Country Groups D:1, E1, or E2 country.