Senior Embedded Engineer, AI IP

Location: Belgrade, Serbia; Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department: AI Hardware: IP Software

We are seeking a Software Driver Developer to create reference drivers for our AI-IP in a reference system. You will also support our AI-IP customer optimizing our reference driver into our customer specific systems.

This role is hybrid, based out of Toronto, ON or Belgrade, Serbia.

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.

 

Who You Are

• Deep systems engineer with 7+ years of experience in device drivers or low-level systems programming.
• Strong proficiency in C and C++ with a solid understanding of hardware-software interfaces.
• Hands-on experience developing Linux kernel drivers, including kernel architecture, debugging, and kernel-space/user-space interactions.
• Experience developing drivers for high-speed I/O or interconnect technologies such as PCIe; PCIe driver development is strongly preferred.
• Familiar with user-mode and kernel-mode driver models and understands that Linux kernel driver development differs meaningfully from bare-metal or RTOS-based driver development.

 

What We Need

• Design and evolve the driver layer that provides high-performance APIs for Tenstorrent devices.
• Develop and maintain user-mode and kernel-mode drivers for Tenstorrent hardware, including Linux kernel drivers for system integration.
• Define driver interfaces and specifications that enable the broader software stack to run across internal and third-party hardware.
• Collaborate with kernel and hardware teams to ensure efficient cross-layer design, performance, and PCIe-based device integration.
• Support external integrations by driving performance engineering, benchmarking, profiling, and optimization of APIs and driver paths in customer environments, including safety-critical use cases where applicable.

 

What You Will Learn

• How user-mode and Linux kernel drivers are designed for high-performance AI hardware.
• How PCIe and other system interconnects are used to integrate accelerator hardware into production platforms.
• How hardware-software interfaces are defined to support scalable and portable systems.
• How performance is optimized across memory, compute, and communication layers.
• How safety and reliability requirements influence modern driver architecture, including in automotive and mission-critical systems.

 

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