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Tenstorrent

Tenstorrent

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Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

RemoteSeniorPosted Aug 17, 2026
KubernetesLLMsHelmPythonPrometheusGrafanaAIMLOps+15 more

About this role

Build with engineers using Tenstorrent's AI computers, creating continuity between customers, engineering, and AI inference service products. This high-autonomy engineering role involves production code contributions, deployment operations, and direct customer impact across North America.

Must have

Strong software engineering skills with 5+ years of relevant technical experience

Experience turning ambiguous customer requirements into verifiable acceptance criteria

Kubernetes and Helm experience at multi-node HPC or AI cluster scale

Experience with observability and infrastructure automation tools

Experience with LLM inference serving engines and technologies

Technologies

PythonGolangGitDockerRESTLinuxGrafanaPrometheusHelmAIRustKubernetesCI/CDLLMsMLOpsRISC-VOpenTelemetryvLLMSGLangMooncakeNIMDynamoLMCache

Responsibilities

Build with engineers using Tenstorrent AI computers

Create continuity between customers engineering and AI inference service products

Contribute production code and operate deployments

Explain technical trade-offs to customer leadership and core engineering teams

Debug across the full inference stack from requests to kernel dispatch

Bring feedback as pull requests reproducible code benchmarks and telemetry data

Benefits

Competitive salary and stock option planFlexible hoursRemote work

Recruitment process

1

High-autonomy role with direct customer impact

2

Remote based out of North America with preference near Santa Clara Austin or Toronto

3

Candidates assessed for appropriate level during interview process

4

Compensation ranges from 100k to 500k including base and variable targets

5

Offer contingent upon eligibility to access U.S. export-controlled technology