Staff, Firmware Engineer
Tenstorrent2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across the firmware lifecycle from architecture and platform bring-up through validation, production, and continued improvement.
- Develop and debug low-level firmware for microcontrollers and SoCs.
- Implement boot, power, and reset sequences and perform board bring-up.
- Use lab tools to diagnose issues across the hardware–software boundary.
- Collaborate with hardware, board, and system software teams to solve complex system-level problems.
- Contribute to design reviews, testing strategies, engineering standards, mentorship, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Experience as an embedded engineer building reliable software for real-world systems.
- Strong foundation in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- Proficiency in low-level C/C++ development and familiarity with modern embedded platforms, RTOS, or Embedded Linux.
- Ability to work across architecture, implementation, debugging, validation, and system-level problem solving.
- Ability to make tradeoffs involving reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Clear communication, cross-functional collaboration, ownership, and willingness to investigate complex technical issues hands-on.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement based in Toronto, Canada.
- Opportunity to work on challenging embedded systems from early development through production.
- Opportunities for mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, architectural influence, and ownership of lasting initiatives.
- Highly competitive compensation package and benefits.
- Employment is contingent on eligibility to access U.S. export-controlled technology.
About Tenstorrent
Tenstorrent builds AI compute hardware and RISC‑V CPU technology for companies developing training and inference workloads in data centers and at the edge. The business sells accelerator cards and systems with a full software stack, and licenses RISC‑V CPU IP. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto, it is privately held and led by semiconductor architect Jim Keller.