Applied AI Engineer - Santa Clara, California, United States
$100,000 - $500,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 8 October 2026.
About the role
This role involves building and scaling AI-powered solutions at Tenstorrent, focusing on replacing manual processes with AI, automation, and agentic solutions from concept to deployment.
What you'll do
- Identify opportunities to replace manual processes with AI, automation, and agentic solutions.
- Take AI solutions from concept through implementation, integration, deployment, and iteration.
- Partner with Operations, Customer Success, IT, Data Infrastructure, and AI Software teams to deliver scalable AI systems.
- Translate ambiguous operational needs into technical requirements and practical AI/software solutions.
- Debug complex implementation issues by reproducing failures, testing hypotheses, and driving blockers to resolution.
- Evaluate and operate AI systems in production, assessing quality and failure modes.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in AI/ML Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, with 5+ years of relevant technical experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and deploying AI-enabled applications or software systems.
- Hands-on contributions to code, architecture, evaluation, integration, and production readiness of AI systems.
- Strong technical understanding of software architecture, APIs, system integration, data pipelines, infrastructure, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience in Python, SQL, Git, LLMs, AI/agentic frameworks, workflow automation, and AI coding agents/tools such as Claude, Codex, Cursor, n8n, Rovo, or similar.
- Ability to integrate AI/software solutions into existing systems.
- Experience understanding reliability, observability, security, privacy, data governance, performance, and cost of AI systems in production.
Skills: AI-powered solutions, automation, agentic solutions, AI-enabled products, Python, LLMs
This role has been open 3 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
912
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$229k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Tenstorrent | All employers we track in this specialty (912 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 912 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 27 | 6047 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 15 d | 51 d (−36 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: AI-powered solutions, automation, agentic solutions, AI-enabled products, Python, LLMs
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 250 open roles · median 49 d
- Qualcomm · 60 open roles · median 61 d
- AMD · 51 open roles · median 28 d
- Cerebras · 40 open roles · median 74 d
- Graphcore · 38 open roles · median 101 d
- Intel Corporation · 33 open roles · median 21 d
How we counted: 912 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.