Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Metal

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities.

Tenstorrent is building large-scale AI infrastructure across on-prem data centers and accelerator clusters. This role focuses on automation of provisioning, configuration, and deployment workflows to ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and repeatable.

This role is hybrid in Toronto, ON; Austin, TX; or Santa Clara, CA.

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.

Who You Are

• Experienced in infrastructure automation, DevOps, or systems engineering in large-scale environments.

• Strong hands-on expertise with Ansible and AWX, including playbooks, roles, and automation workflows.

• Proficient in Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages for automation and tooling.

• Comfortable with Linux systems administration and debugging infrastructure issues.

• Familiar with networking fundamentals and CI/CD systems in distributed environments.

What We Need

• Design and maintain automation frameworks using Ansible and AWX for infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

• Build and manage playbooks, roles, inventories, and job templates for scalable system deployment.

• Automate infrastructure across compute nodes, networking components, and system services.

• Integrate automation workflows with internal tooling and CI/CD pipelines.

• Troubleshoot automation pipelines and collaborate with SRE and infrastructure teams on large-scale deployments.

What You Will Learn

• How large-scale AI infrastructure is provisioned and managed across accelerator clusters.

• How automation frameworks scale across complex on-prem and hybrid environments.

• How infrastructure automation integrates with CI/CD and deployment pipelines.

• How distributed systems are configured, deployed, and maintained at scale.

• How operational efficiency is achieved through automation in high-performance environments.

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.

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.

This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicant being eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology. Due to U.S. export laws, including those codified in the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Company is required to ensure compliance with these laws when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries (such as EAR Country Groups D:1, E1, and E2). These requirements apply to persons located in the U.S. and all countries outside the U.S. As the position offered will have direct and/or indirect access to information, systems, or technologies subject to these laws, the offer may be contingent upon your citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency. If employment is not possible due to U.S. export laws, any offer of employment will be rescinded.