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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Tenstorrent Usa, Inc.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Salary:** $100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Data Streaming
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-metal-runtime-core-systems-tenstorrent-company-8293398

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

* 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.

What You Will Learn

 * How to design high-performance runtime systems for cutting-edge AI hardware.
 * How execution, scheduling, and memory systems interact at scale.
 * How to make custom ASICs and co-processors work efficiently across the chip.
 * Best practices for debugging complex, performance-critical software.
 * How software and hardware co-evolve in a fast-paced AI startup.


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