George Powley is a Principal SoC engineer with 11 years of documented experience and a multi-decade engineering pedigree rooted in CPU, accelerator and communications design. He has led server CPU teams and developed hardware-accelerated software at Intel—authoring and contributing to projects like the Genomics Kernel Library and GATK integrations—and more recently drives SoC development at Tenstorrent after principal software leadership at TileDB. A hands-on technical leader and mentor, he bridges silicon, FPGA prototyping and systems software to deliver complex hardware/software products. Based in Greater Boston and holding advanced degrees from The Ohio State University, he combines deep academic training with practical experience shipping production-class processors and accelerators. Notably, his career spans both standards-era telecom work (Motorola 3G prototyping) and modern ML/accelerator ecosystems, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on compute stack optimization.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University
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George Powley - Principal Engineer, SoC at Tenstorrent