Tensordyne

Role Description In this hands-on, technology leadership role, you will lead EDA tool flow management, and associated engineering workflow development for Tensordyne's multimodal generative AI inference acceleration products. As a valued senior member of our ASIC team, you will: - Guide and assist colleagues to improve and invent EDA workflows within a fast-paced, agile HPC development environment. - Drive Tensordyne’s optimization, implementation, and exploration of new EDA tools and technologies for the full ASIC chip design process. - Continuously innovate and improve scalable, reliable, high-performance systems and tools for the next generation of Tensordyne products. - Work closely with ASIC team members engaged in the design and verification of Tensordyne products to understand and improve their workflows and EDA needs. Qualifications - Experience leading the development and support for compilation, build automation, testing, packaging, and installation project generators (CMake, GNU make, Ninja). - Hands-on ASIC engineering experience, including knowledge of VLSI/SoC chip design and verification workflows, with ASIC EDA tool suites from Synopsys and/or Cadence. - Knowledge of Linux system administration and familiarity with cloud-based DevOps, with experience in supporting EDA tools. - Programming and debugging skills with key languages to automate tasks and improve efficiency using scripts. - Prior work experience supporting ASIC engineers with EDA workflows, including installation of new tool versions, FlexLM license management, and debugging/fixing issues with EDA vendors. - Excellent analytical, written, and verbal interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate productively within a global engineering team. - Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field. Requirements - Experience with CI/CD and modern Git Branching workflows. Benefits - Comprehensive benefits. - Competitive compensation. - Flexible spending options. - Recognition programs. Company Description Tensordyne is an AI system solution company that builds very high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems. Our mission is to enable multimodal Generative AI inference acceleration at scale, with safe, sustainable, high-performance systems for our hyperscaler and neocloud data center customers. We are a well-funded, fast-paced startup with headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany, and many talented team members working remotely across North America and Europe.

Role Description To keep pace in this exciting, multi-disciplinary field, we’re looking for a Hardware Design Engineer. You will be in a unique position to have ownership of a wide-ranging list of hardware system development aspects, including: - Schematics - PCB layout and mechanical design - Component selection - Collaborating with operations in AVL management - EVT/DVT/PVT testing and certification You will also have an opportunity to make an impact on design and bringup of development systems, reference platforms and volume products. This hands-on multi-disciplinary role provides a unique opportunity to interact directly with ASIC, software, product and operations teams to gather necessary requirements and specifications, and develop industry-leading AI Inference HW products. Qualifications - B.S. degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering. - 7+ years of hardware engineering and experience with product-cycle aspects therein. - Hands-on experience in all aspects of schematic capture, PCB design, as well as understanding signal integrity, mechanical and thermal design areas. - Experience in part selection, AVL management and working with manufacturing operations teams. - Solid understanding of CPU subsystems and modern power subsystem designs as well as expertise in HW bringup. - Previous involvement in representing engineering considerations in contract manufacturing relationships. - Demonstrable experience with EVT, DVT, PVT testing and certification processes is a plus. - Self-starter and highly-motivated to work in a dynamic start-up environment. Requirements - Put people first. We only succeed when our people succeed. - Ethics and integrity always; Being open, honest, and respectful of everyone. - Think Big. Be ambitious and have audacious goals. - Aim for excellence. Quality and excellence count in everything we do. - Own it and get it done. Results matter! - Make each person better together, than they would be as an individual. - Embrace each others’ differences, and embrace that there will be differences. Benefits - Comprehensive benefits - Competitive compensation - Flexible spending options - Recognition programs Company Description Tensordyne is an AI system solution company that builds very high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems. Our mission, through the creation of custom silicon, hardware and software, is to enable multimodal Generative AI inference acceleration at scale, with safe, sustainable, high-performance systems for our hyperscaler and neocloud data center customers. Tensordyne is a well funded, fast-paced startup company with headquarters in both Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany. We also have many talented team members working remotely across North America and Europe. Tensordyne is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse team is better at tackling complex problems and coming up with innovative solutions.

Role Description To keep pace in this exciting, multi-disciplinary field, we’re looking for a Hardware Design Engineer. You will be in a unique position to have ownership of a wide-ranging list of hardware system development aspects, including: - Schematics - PCB layout and mechanical design - Component selection - Collaborating with operations in AVL management - EVT/DVT/PVT testing and certification You will also have an opportunity to make an impact on design and bringup of development systems, reference platforms and volume products. This hands-on multi-disciplinary role provides a unique opportunity to interact directly with ASIC, software, product and operations teams to gather necessary requirements and specifications, and develop industry-leading AI Inference HW products. Qualifications - B.S. degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering. - 2+ years of hardware engineering and experience with product-cycle aspects therein. - Hands-on experience in all aspects of schematic capture, PCB design, as well as understanding signal integrity, mechanical and thermal design areas. - Experience in part selection, AVL management and working with manufacturing operations teams. - Solid understanding of CPU subsystems and modern power subsystem designs as well as expertise in HW bringup. - Previous involvement in representing engineering considerations in contract manufacturing relationships. - Demonstrable experience with EVT, DVT, PVT testing and certification processes is a plus. - Self-starter and highly-motivated to work in a dynamic start-up environment. Requirements - Own multiple aspects of hardware system engineering of Tensordyne’s flagship AI products. - Gather requirements and specifications from engineering, product and operations teams for planning and implementing all hardware system deliverables, from lab bringup artifacts to shipping products. - Hands on responsibility for the schematic capture, PCB design and other aspects of the hardware system around a complex custom AI ASIC. - Plan for Compliance, Validation and FMEA Analysis for products. - Drive hardware parts selection and vendor qualification processes in collaboration with manufacturing operations. Benefits - Comprehensive benefits - Competitive compensation - Flexible spending options - Recognition programs Company Description Tensordyne is an AI system solution company that builds very high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems. Our mission, through the creation of custom silicon, hardware and software, is to enable multimodal Generative AI inference acceleration at scale, with safe, sustainable, high-performance systems for our hyperscaler and neocloud data center customers. Tensordyne is a well funded, fast-paced startup company with headquarters in both Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany. We also have many talented team members working remotely across North America and Europe. Tensordyne's culture was built on the following values: - Put people first. We only succeed when our people succeed. - Ethics and integrity always; Being open, honest, and respectful of everyone. - Think Big. Be ambitious and have audacious goals. - Aim for excellence. Quality and excellence count in everything we do. - Own it and get it done. Results matter! - Make each person better together, than they would be as an individual. - Embrace each others’ differences, and embrace that there will be differences.

Role Description In this role, you will be responsible for DVT (Design Verification Testing) and Sustaining for early-stage validation and bring-up of Tensordyne’s next-generation hardware products for generative AI inference acceleration. You will drive hardware bring-up for new designs, debug issues, and ensure all systems meet performance and reliability specifications. Responsibilities include: - Creating and executing hardware test plans - Validating functionality - Identifying and root-causing failures - Making design changes - Managing part lifecycle - Building and maintaining benchtop test environments - Supporting reliability and stress testing across Tensordyne’s hardware portfolio Qualifications - B.S. degree in Electrical or Computer engineering - 5+ years of hardware validation and/or sustaining experience on board and system level products - Experience in creating test setups, writing test plans and reports - Strong knowledge of oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, in-system programmers and analyzers - Demonstrable experience with EVT, DVT, PVT testing and certification processes - Self-starter and highly motivated to work in a dynamic start-up environment Requirements - Support all aspects of hardware system validation and sustaining of Tensordyne’s board and system level products - Gather requirements and specifications from engineering, product and operations teams for planning Hardware Validation and creating Test Plans - Hands on responsibility for board bring up, programming, performing functional test and design verification and board characterization - Support Compliance testing activities - Drive hardware parts selection and vendor qualification processes in collaboration with manufacturing operations - Analyze failures and find root causes for issues and drive them to resolution - Make necessary design changes and drive ECO/MCO releases - Support Diagnostic and Manufacturing Test development activities - Develop scripts and tools to automate test procedures and data analysis Benefits - Comprehensive benefits - Competitive compensation - Flexible spending options - Recognition programs Company Description Tensordyne is an AI system solution company that builds very high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems. Our mission is to enable multimodal Generative AI inference acceleration at scale, with safe, sustainable, high-performance systems for our hyperscaler and neocloud data center customers. We are at the leading edge of advancing the latest research and product improvements for generative AI inference solutions. Tensordyne is a well-funded, fast-paced startup company with headquarters in both Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany. We also have many talented team members working remotely across North America and Europe. Tensordyne is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse team is better at tackling complex problems and coming up with innovative solutions.

Role Description To keep developing world-class AI Inference compute systems (from silicon to software), we're looking for an experienced Technical Product Director who is passionate about AI inference compute in datacenters, across the entire stack (hardware and software). We need a self-starter to work directly with one of our founders to help focus AI compute product efforts that will define the future of inference at customers of Tensordyne. The successful candidate will have a years-long background in engineering enabling them to have a deep technical understanding of most if not all dimensions of the product, along with experience in product management, business development and spot great communication and networking skills. If that's you, then we'd love to talk to you! Where you'd help us: - Leading the definition of Tensordyne's next generation of AI inference compute products, with an innovative yet pragmatic and well-communicated technology roadmap in alignment with and with influence on the company’s GTM strategy. - Engaging with our external technology partners, customers, AI industry researchers and internal engineering & business stakeholders to coalesce insights and requirements into winning AI product plans and strategies. - Researching, defining and driving essential competitive analysis, key metrics tracking, cost modeling, customer demos, and product release schedules to ensure Tensordyne's superiority to alternative solutions. - Overseeing and ensuring the success of key customers' projects, anticipating their software and hardware needs, while reacting as necessary to pertinent feedback. - Working hand-in-hand with marketing to design marketing campaigns with the goal of promoting Tensordyne's AI technology, products and demonstrating thought leadership. Qualifications - Deep in-field engineering experience across multiple dimensions of our product stack (AI models (text, audio, image, video), AI-centric applications, AI inference KPI optimization, silicon design, hardware design, compilers, inference servers, rack-mounted compute systems, datacenter networking, datacenter storage, multimedia processing, datacenter systems, cloud computing, datacenter maintenance/telemetry). - Strong product mindset/technical product management experience with a passion for finding the perfect balance between customer-centric product design & engineering, and driving disruptive innovation within the boundaries of the customer. - Real-world, in-field experience of how datacenter AI compute solutions and their (newcomer) vendors are vetted, selected, procured, set up, managed, maintained, monitored and served. - Exceptionally strong communication, presentation and interpersonal collaboration skills. - A track record of producing and driving technology product roadmaps from early requirements gathering to cost modeling, to production and commercialization with global customers (fine if this was from an engineering role, as an IC strongly involved in vast areas of similar products). - An understanding of modern machine learning architectures and applications with a keen interest in optimizing their performance and an intrinsic passion and drive to gain an exhaustively holistic understanding of all parts involved end-to-end. - Strong project management mindset - the successful candidate is a natural organizer, with customer empathy and able to multitask and prioritize within a demanding environment. - BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar field. Company Description Tensordyne is an AI system solution company that builds very high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems. Our mission, through the creation of custom silicon, hardware and software, is to enable multimodal Generative AI inference acceleration at scale, with safe, sustainable, high-performance systems for our hyperscaler and neocloud data center customers. We are at the leading edge of advancing the latest research and product improvements for generative AI inference solutions that will make AI even more advantageous for compelling new generative AI applications. Tensordyne is a well-funded, fast-paced startup company with headquarters in both Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany. We also have many talented team members working remotely across North America and Europe. We take care of our people and their families with comprehensive benefits, competitive compensation, flexible spending options, and recognition programs, because building category-defining technology starts with a healthy, supported team. Come join us as we shape the future of multimodal generative artificial intelligence!

Role Description The role will require you to join Tensordyne’s Platform Software team, to lead the requirements gathering, ideation and creation of system level tests and tools for Tensordyne’s AI inference system diagnostics, debugging, and analysis software. The successful candidate will support cross-functional engineering teams in the bring-up and validation of platform software on AI inference systems, as well as working closely with Tensordyne’s manufacturing test team, to ensure that they can automate the system diagnostic tools and tests that you create, via production test scripts and manufacturing diagnostics packages. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience developing low-level platform software tools and manufacturing diagnostics for high performance compute systems deployed to data center customers. - Expert programming experience in C++, Python, Bash/Shell, Tcl/Expect, and/or related programming languages. - Hands-on experience bringing up and debugging complex Linux-based systems; a familiarity with AI inference frameworks and data center deployment/management environments is preferred. - Self-motivated, adaptable, and comfortable working across hardware, software, and manufacturing teams in a fast-paced startup environment. - Excellent technical communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts and practical solutions. - BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. - Travel to contract manufacturer sites, as needed, to support test station bring-up, troubleshoot production failures in the manufacturing environment. Company Description Tensordyne is an AI system solution company that builds very high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems. Our mission, through the creation of custom silicon, hardware and software, is to enable multimodal Generative AI inference acceleration at scale, with safe, sustainable, high-performance systems for our hyperscaler and neocloud data center customers. We are at the leading edge of advancing the latest research and product improvements for generative AI inference solutions that will make AI even more advantageous for compelling new generative AI applications. Tensordyne is a well funded, fast-paced startup company with headquarters in both Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany. We also have many talented team members working remotely across North America and Europe. We take care of our people and their families with comprehensive benefits, competitive compensation, flexible spending options, and recognition programs, because building category-defining technology starts with a healthy, supported team. Come join us as we shape the future of multimodal generative artificial intelligence!

Role Description As a member of Recogni’s ASIC team, you will be responsible for the pre-silicon correctness and quality of a high-performance and low-power convolutional neural network accelerator ASIC that forms the core of the company’s flagship perception module product for autonomous driving applications. This ASIC’s design closely couples novel computational accelerator units with 3rd-party SoC IP blocks to form an end-to-end vision perception module that achieves record-breaking computational performance at low power. - Ensure the pre-silicon correctness and quality of a multi-million gate ASIC that integrates computational accelerators and 3rd-party SoC IP blocks. - SoC/Subsystem verification of embedded CPUs such as ARM/RISC-V and interconnect subsystem (including C and assembly diag validation). - Develop the block-level, sub-system and full-chip verification environment and tests to implement test plans. - Work closely with design and architecture teams to understand the functional and performance goals of the design; and work together to make the design-under-test work under all specified circumstances. - Triage and debug functional and performance issues with the design-under-test. - Handle bug tracking and coverage convergence. - Perform diagnostic and post-silicon validation tests in the lab. Qualifications - 2+ years of ASIC verification experience. - Knowledge of ARM/MIPS/RISC-V Architecture. - Familiarity with AMBA/APB/AXI Protocol. - Familiarity with processor peripheral interfaces like SPI, eMMC, *MII, GPIO, I2C. - Excellent Verilog/System Verilog programming skills. - Experience with UVM (or similar). - Deep understanding of object-oriented programming principles, constrained random stimulus, and a coverage-driven verification approach. - Scripting experience (Python, Perl, TCL, shell programming) highly-desirable. - Interest to explore AI architectures for convolution, transformer and other kinds of workloads. - Self-starter and highly-motivated to work in a dynamic start-up environment. - B.S. (M.S. preferred) degree in Electrical or Computer engineering (or similar field). Benefits - Ground floor opportunity with the team; be part of shaping one of the most exciting new companies. - Learning and development opportunities from a highly diverse and talented peer group, including experts in a wide range of fields, from Artificial Intelligence & Computer Vision to Systems & Device Engineering. - Competitive benefits package including Medical, Vision, Dental. - Perks including meals, snacks, drinks and us! - Sharp, motivated co-workers in a fun office environment. - Flexible work hours & generous PTO policy.

About our company - Tensordyne (formerly Recogni) AI is reshaping our world, performing cognitive tasks once unique to humans—perceiving across modalities, learning quickly, and solving complex problems. Tensordyne builds high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems. We’re leveraging novel techniques from the latest AI research to build custom silicon, hardware, and software to accelerate multimodal generative AI at scale—delivering safe, sustainable, cutting-edge solutions for hyperscaler and neocloud data centers. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany, with remote team members across North America and Europe, Tensordyne is a well-funded, fast-moving startup. We support our people with competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, flexibility, and recognition programs—because breakthrough technology starts with a healthy, empowered team. Come join us, as we shape the future of AI together! The Opportunity: In this role, you will lead all phases of ASIC architecture definition and design of Tensordyne’s next-generation family of processors for generative AI inference acceleration. This is an exciting opportunity that involves high-level silicon architecture planning, hands-on design, prototyping of ASIC design concepts, mentoring, and technical leadership to deliver the high-performance multi-chip silicon solutions that are at the heart of Tensordyne’s vertically integrated, generative AI inference acceleration systems for data centers. - What You'll Do: - Lead the architectural planning and definition of new Tensordyne AI processors, that consist of highly specialized floating point AI compute cores, embedded memory, embedded RISC-V CPU cores, and high speed serial communications with chip-to-chip networking fabric, HBM, and PCIe connectivity. - Analyze technical needs, propose chip design solutions, create detailed design specifications, lead architectural modeling and establish ASIC development milestones to ensure that the final product meets requirements related to functionality, inference performance, inference accuracy, power efficiency, programmability, debuggability and manufacturability. - Work closely with external engineering partners, ASIC design engineers, ASIC design verification teams, SOC physical design teams, interdisciplinary software teams, product management and executives, providing technical guidance, overseeing design reviews and mentoring where applicable. - Lead the evaluation of new silicon IP technologies, EDA tools and methodologies to enhance the product and improve the efficiency of our chip design process. What You'll Bring: - 15+ years of hands-on experience and deep expertise in silicon design engineering and architectural planning of high performance compute (HPC) processors like GPUs, CPUs, TPUs etc., as well as HBM and high speed SerDes networking technologies for AI workloads. - Strong understanding of generative AI algorithms, attention mechanisms, foundation transformer models, and mapping these functions to hardware. - Strong Verilog programming skills, and experience with RTL verification, and performance modeling. Experience with performance analysis, debugging, and optimization is also required. - Track record of developing architectural C-models, SystemC, or TLM. Expert-level skills in C/C++, and scripting languages like Python or Perl for automation and modeling. - An MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related engineering discipline. For this role, occasional travel is needed to interact with global engineering partners. Tensordyne's culture was built on the following values: - Put people first. We only succeed when our people succeed. - Ethics and integrity always; Being open, honest, and respectful of everyone. - Think Big. Be ambitious and have audacious goals. - Aim for excellence. Quality and excellence count in everything we do. - Own it and get it done. Results matter! - Make each person better together, than they would be as an individual. - Embrace each others’ differences, and embrace that there will be differences. Tensordyne is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse team is better at tackling complex problems and coming up with innovative solutions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. A note to Recruitment Agencies: Please don’t reach out to Tensordyne employees or leaders about our roles -- we’ve got it covered. We don’t accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Thank you for your understanding.

Role Description In this role, you will work within a team working on high-performance backend APIs. Your focus will be on a part of a software stack of a future Tensordyne product. - Design and develop distributed cloud inference services in Rust - Maintain Rust software developed in-house, as well as work with external frameworks - Build APIs for generative AI - Collaborate across different teams to derive design specifications and decisions Qualifications - Experience with modern Rust - Knowledge of common Rust design patterns, including patterns for asynchronous code - General awareness of network technologies and high-level protocols like HTTP and gRPC - General awareness of Kubernetes and other related technologies is a plus Company Description Tensordyne is an AI system solution company that builds very high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems. Our mission, through the creation of custom silicon, hardware and software, is to enable multimodal Generative AI inference acceleration at scale, with safe, sustainable, high-performance systems for our hyperscaler and neocloud data center customers. - Well-funded, fast-paced startup - Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany - Talented team members working remotely across North America and Europe - Comprehensive benefits and competitive compensation - Flexible spending options and recognition programs

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description As a senior member of Tensordyne’s ASIC team, you will be responsible for the pre-silicon correctness and quality of a high-performance and low-power convolutional neural network accelerator ASIC that forms the core of the company’s flagship perception module product for autonomous driving applications. This ASIC’s design closely couples novel computational accelerator units with 3rd-party SoC IP blocks to form an end-to-end vision perception module that achieves record-breaking computational performance at low power. Your responsibilities will be wide-ranging and include: - Ensuring the pre-silicon correctness and quality of a multi-million gate ASIC that integrates computational accelerators and 3rd-party SoC IP blocks. - SoC/Subsystem verification of embedded CPUs such as ARM/RISC-V and interconnect subsystem (including C and assembly diag validation). - Developing the block-level, sub-system and full-chip verification environment and tests to implement test plans. - Working closely with design and architecture teams to understand the functional and performance goals of the design. - Triage and debug functional and performance issues with the design-under-test. - Handling bug tracking and coverage convergence. - Performing diagnostic and post-silicon validation tests in the lab. Qualifications - 5+ years of ASIC verification experience. - Knowledge of ARM/MIPS/RISC-V Architectures, Memory hierarchy, Cache coherency, Virtual memory, Multicore CPU operation. - Familiarity with AMBA/APB/AXI Protocol. - Familiarity with processor peripheral interfaces like SPI, eMMC, *MII, GPIO, I2C. - Excellent Verilog/System Verilog programming skills. - Experience with UVM (or similar). - Deep understanding of object-oriented programming principles, constrained random stimulus, and a coverage-driven verification approach. - Scripting experience (Python, Perl, TCL, shell programming) highly desirable. - Interest to explore AI architectures for convolution, transformer and other kinds of workloads. - Self-starter and highly motivated to work in a dynamic start-up environment. - B.S. degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or similar field). Benefits - Comprehensive benefits and competitive compensation. - Flexible spending and Bonusly awards. - Tailored benefits for health and financial security, catering to different life stages. Company Description Tensordyne is a system solution company that specializes in the design of industry-leading high-performance, low-power AI inferencing. Our mission is to enable multimodal Generative AI inference acceleration at scale by providing safe, sustainable, high-performance AI-driven solutions for many markets. We are at the leading edge of advancing the latest research and product improvements for AI inference solutions that will make AI even more advantageous for compelling new applications. - Well-funded, fast-paced startup company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany. - Many talented team members working remotely. - Prioritize employees' well-being and their families. - Value contributions and offer tailored benefits.