Forward Deployed Engineer
Tenstorrent12 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own customer technical outcomes across system integration, validation, production readiness, and ongoing operations.
- Work directly with customer engineering and operations teams to understand environments, constraints, and desired outcomes.
- Integrate hardware and software, deploy and validate systems, automate operations, debug inference stacks, and contribute production code.
- Establish reliable operating procedures and drive customer systems through resolution.
- Communicate technical trade-offs with customer leadership and core engineering teams.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills with 5+ years of relevant experience in applied engineering, machine learning engineering, MLOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or site reliability engineering.
- Proficiency in Python; C++ experience is a plus.
- Experience translating ambiguous requirements into production implementations, acceptance criteria, validation plans, and operating procedures.
- Experience with Kubernetes and Linux systems administration at multi-node, HPC, or AI-cluster scale.
- Experience with Helm-based deployments, observability, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, release engineering, and LLM inference frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, or Mooncake.
- Native or business-level Japanese and business-level English communication skills.
- Understanding of accelerator compute, memory, networking topology, and their impact on AI workloads.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement based in Tokyo, Japan.
- Highly competitive compensation package and benefits.
- Candidates may be assessed for an appropriate level during the interview process, with offers aligned to that level.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
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.