Staff Technical Program Manager, AI Systems and IP Delivery

About the role

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. This role focuses on delivering AI model IP and the supporting software stack into real customer environments, ensuring performance, correctness, and deployability at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of AI model IP and supporting software including compiler outputs, runtime libraries, model artifacts, and hardware collateral.
• Define and enforce release criteria covering correctness, performance, and customer-specific requirements.
• Align hardware, compiler, runtime, kernel, and legal teams to ensure deliverables are technically sound, compliant, and deployable.
• Identify integration risks including toolchain gaps, performance issues, and system mismatches and drive mitigation strategies.
• Provide clear visibility to leadership on deployment status and translate customer needs into actionable roadmap priorities.

Requirements

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.

Qualifications

• Technical integration expert with experience in AI infrastructure, compilers, semiconductors, or systems spanning those domains.
• Proven track record delivering functional IP such as hardware and software into customer environments. Escalation and de-escalation of customer needs.
• Systems thinker who can map customer requirements across models, serving stacks, performance targets, and hardware configurations to current platform capabilities.
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments where hardware and software evolve simultaneously and ambiguity is high.
• Strong communicator who bridges customer needs with engineering reality across timelines and tradeoffs.

Skills

Not specified

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

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.

Schedule

This role is hybrid, based out of Austin, TX; Santa Clara, CA; or Toronto, ON.