Silicon Power & Characterization Engineer
Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. The company is seeking a skilled Engineer to contribute to post-silicon power characterization and correlation activities for semiconductor products, focusing on power measurement strategies and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to post-silicon power characterization and correlation activities for cutting-edge semiconductor products
- Help develop and execute power measurement strategies on silicon
- Analyze results against pre-silicon models
- Support improvements across power architecture, design, and modeling methodologies
- Work closely with design, architecture, validation, and systems teams to help ensure silicon meets power and performance specifications under a range of operating conditions
- Run defined power characterization tests, extend existing scripts and automation, and keep results organized and reproducible
- Help expand coverage across key workloads and PVT points, and participate in debug for power anomalies with architecture, modeling, and validation
- Support end-to-end power correlation reports, bringing careful measurements and analysis that feed into recommendations and future ownership
Skills
- Solid experience in silicon power analysis and characterization
- Background in Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Engineering (CE), or a related field
- Comfortable learning complex AI SoC architectures and power domains step by step
- Ability to ask good questions and document what you learn
- Confident in the lab using oscilloscopes, power measurement tools, and basic scripting (e.g., Python or MATLAB)
- Ability to run and debug measurements
- Collaborative communicator who enjoys working with senior engineers
- Ability to turn data into clear updates and proposals
- Ability to immerse in Tenstorrent's AI SoC and power architecture
- Ability to ramp on tools, processes, and teams in the first 60 days
- Ability to run defined power characterization tests
- Ability to extend existing scripts and automation
- Ability to keep results organized and reproducible
- Ability to expand coverage across key workloads and PVT points
- Participation in debug for power anomalies with architecture, modeling, and validation
- Support for end-to-end power correlation reports
- Ability to bring careful measurements and analysis that feed into recommendations and future ownership
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation package and benefits
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