Senior Performance Modeling Architect

Tenstorrent

Santa Clara, CA, United States Posted September 20, 2026

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Job Description

Join Tenstorrent as a Senior Performance Modeling Architect. In this role, you will gain deep exposure to CPU architecture and the development process, from early exploration to implementation and silicon. You will work across various teams to understand performance from multiple perspectives and develop new approaches to modeling and workload analysis. You will help shape the performance characteristics and architectural direction of future generations of Tenstorrent CPUs. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience in CPU architecture, performance modeling, or a closely related field, and strong programming skills in C++ or Python.

  • Gagner une exposition plus approfondie à l'architecture CPU et au processus de développement, de l'exploration architecturale précoce à la mise en œuvre et au silicium.
  • Développer de nouvelles approches pour la modélisation, l'analyse de charge de travail et l'exploration architecturale à mesure que les conceptions de processeurs deviennent de plus en plus complexes.
  • Aider à façonner les caractéristiques de performance et la direction architecturale des futures générations de CPU Tenstorrent.
  • You can move between high-level architectural questions and detailed analysis of CPU pipelines, memory systems, workloads, and bottlenecks
  • You have a strong understanding of modern processor architecture and enjoy digging into why a CPU performs the way it does
  • You are comfortable combining hardware architecture, software, data, and analytical modeling to solve complex performance problems
  • A strong collaborator and technical communicator who can turn complex modeling results into clear recommendations and drive decisions across engineering teams
  • A CPU architect, performance architect, or performance modeling engineer with experience influencing CPU architecture or microarchitecture decisions
  • 8+ years of experience in CPU architecture, performance modeling, microarchitecture, performance analysis, or a closely related field
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across architecture, hardware, and software teams
  • Demonstrated experience using performance models, simulation, or quantitative analysis to guide real architectural decisions
  • Strong programming skills in C++, Python, or similar languages, with experience developing or extending modeling and analysis tools
  • Strong understanding of CPU architecture and microarchitecture, including areas such as pipelines, execution, scheduling, branch prediction, caches, memory hierarchy, and data movement
Required Skills
C++ Python problem solving communication
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