Sr. Staff Engineer, Front-End Verification
Tenstorrent · Austin, Texas, United States; Santa Clara, California, United States
Posted 12 days ago · $100k - $500k
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 12 days Tenstorrent's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 64% of Tenstorrent's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Tenstorrent
- high 88 stale, 1 reposted of 140 open
- Hiring momentum
- 189 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Tenstorrent's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Tenstorrent.
About this role
As a Senior Staff Engineer in Front-End Verification at Tenstorrent, you will focus on the unit-level verification of RISC-V CPU front-end components such as instruction fetch and branch prediction. Your day-to-day tasks will include building testbenches, generating stimulus, and developing checkers for complex microarchitectural scenarios, while collaborating closely with RTL designers to resolve any issues that arise.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Tenstorrent as an employer.
What you need
- Solid background verifying CPU front-end blocks such as instruction fetch, branch predictors, instruction caches/TLBs, or decode using SystemVerilog, UVM, and C++
- Hands-on experience building clean, controllable unit testbench environments with precise stimulus and checking
- Pragmatic approach to building transactors, predictors, and scoreboards that can be reused across verification levels
- Comfortable working alongside RTL designers to trace and fix misspeculation, redirect, and edge-case fetch bugs
What you get
- Highly competitive compensation package
- Compensation ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets
- Equal opportunity employer
Worth weighing
- Role is hybrid, based out of Austin, TX or Santa Clara, CA
- Compensation varies based on experience, skills, education, background, and location
- Employment contingent upon eligibility to access U.S. export-controlled technology
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Listed by Tenstorrent on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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