Sr. Systems Engineer

The systems engineering team is responsible not only for the base level tools that all customers and developers use, but for low level firmware, validation tooling for the low level hardware, as well as the Yocto derived Linux distributions that help run several of our products.  This position will have a number of responsibilities ranging from helping build, and maintain the Linux distributions, helping build and maintain distribution level, and language specific, packaging for our tools, building out further ci/cd automation and pipelines for both Github and Gitlab, working on collection and reporting of pipeline statistics, as well as working directly on Tenstorrent upstream open source projects.

This role is remote, based primarily out of Toronto Canada or Portland Oregon, USA

Responsibilities:

• Creation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines in Github and Gitlab
• Working with the Developer Infrastructure team on pipelines and runners and tooling needed to facilitate system engineering’s usage of resources
• Automating build processes for a variety of tooling, as well as packaging for respective tools
• Automation of release pipelines for a variety of public deliverables
• Working with developers to develop more extensive integrations and testing in the CI/CD pipeline
• Optimizing the CI/CD pipeline where appropriate to run tests or integrations that make sense only for given commits and check ins
• Helping with the development, testing, maintenance, and release of existing Yocto derived Linux distributions
• Writing and maintaining appropriate, and updated, packaging and respective automations for a variety of Linux distributions (RPM, DEB, etc) as well as language specific distribution mechanisms (PyPI for python)
• Working on upstreaming code and packages into the broader ecosystem where appropriate and doable

Experience & Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master’s in Electrical or Computer Engineering with more than 3 years of relevant experience
• Ability to understand multiple different programming languages and their respective build systems, including Rust, C, C++, Python
• Familiarity with existing ci/cd pipeline frameworks
• Experience in scripting and test automation
• Familiarity with Github and Gitlab respective ci/cd workflows and automation systems
• Familiarity with Yocto
• Familiarity with Python, Rust, Debian, Ubuntu, and RPM based packaging and distributions
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work cross functionally and with multiple teams and systems
• Familiarity with Ansible and maintaining roles

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.

As this position will have direct and/or indirect 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 supporting documentation will be required and considered as a condition of employment.

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.