Principal Reliability Engineer

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities.

Tenstorrent is looking for an experienced Reliability Engineer to drive and execute reliability testing for our products from wafer to board level.   

As a Principal Reliability Engineer, you will be expected to design and execute innovative and systematic plans to assess and improve our product's reliability, field performance, and robustness. You are expected to work with cross-functional team s to include design-for-reliability concepts in  the  early phases of the design and evaluate product reliability for different market segments.   

This role is   hybrid, based out of Toronto, Austin, Santa Clara, Ft Collins or Boston

We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting.

Responsibilities:

• Design statistical reliability models for existing and future products for reliability predictions and improvements


• Define mission profile and expected lifetime/failure rate for different market segments


• Design and execute reliability and accelerated life testing to identify trends, failure rates, and lifetime


• Implement design-for-reliability in the early stages of design for future products 


• Ensure product adherence to semiconductor and extended industry standards 


• Apply reliability expertise to aid in root-causing systematic and random field failures 

Experience & Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in reliability engineering in the semiconductor industry 


• Expertise in silicon/package/PCBA accelerated life modelling and testing


• Familiar with reliability test suites from wafer to package to product level 


• Experienced in modelling lifetime, building mission profiles, and planning for accelerated life testing 


• Experienced in the automotive industry is an asset 

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made.

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

Due to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, Tenstorrent is required to ensure compliance with licensing regulations when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries that have been licensing conditions set by the U.S. government.

Our engineering positions and certain engineering support positions require access to information, systems, or technologies that are subject to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, please note that citizenship/permanent residency, asylee and refugee information and/or documentation will be required and considered as Tenstorrent moves through the employment process.

If a U.S. export license is required, employment will not begin until a license with acceptable conditions is granted by the U.S. government. If a U.S. export license with acceptable conditions is not granted by the U.S. government, then the offer of employment will be rescinded.