Software Engineering, Metal Runtime Intern/PEY

As a Software Engineering PEY intern on the Metal Runtime team at Tenstorrent, you'll get hands-on experience working on the low-level software that powers our AI accelerators. You'll learn how high-performance runtime systems are built, how software interacts with custom silicon, and what it means to work close to the metal.

This role is onsite based out of Toronto, Ontario.

Who You Are

• Strong coder in C or C , with an interest in systems programming
• Curious about threads, processors, memory, and how parallel programs run
• Excited to learn how runtimes and bare-metal software come together to power AI workloads
• Collaborative and proactive about asking questions and solving problems with others

What We Need

• Support the development and optimization of the Metal runtime that runs on our AI accelerators
• Assist with building bare-metal software that manages compute units, memory movement, and async operations
• Help debug and analyze runtime behaviour across massively parallel systems
• Work alongside hardware and senior software engineers to understand and improve overall system performance

What You Will Learn

• How low-level runtime systems are designed for cutting-edge AI hardware
• How custom ASICs and co-processors communicate and operate in sync
• Techniques for debugging and tuning performance-critical software
• How hardware–software co-design works inside a fast-moving AI startup