Tenstorrent Bounty Program for open source contributors
Tenstorrent pays bounties for merged pull requests on GitHub issues tagged bounty. Tiers run from $1 to $3,000, and one open issue lists $35,000.
The Tenstorrent Bounty Program pays open source contributors for work on Tenstorrent repositories on GitHub. Tenstorrent makes AI hardware, and the bounties cover its open source software stack, such as the tt-metal repository and its TTNN library.
The announcement sets four tiers. Warmup tasks pay $1 to $200 and cover minor bug fixes, simple doc updates and small tests. Easy tasks pay $201 to $500. Medium tasks pay $501 to $1,999 and include new features, support for new models and harder debugging. Hard tasks pay $2,000 to $3,000 and cover major architectural changes, core redesigns and low level performance work. Some current issues list more: one open issue on Welford statistics offers $35,000, and another offers $5,000.
To take part, find an open issue with the "bounty" label and a difficulty label. Comment on the issue to ask for assignment, and Tenstorrent confirms if it is still free. Then submit a pull request that meets the guidelines. A merged pull request counts as an accepted contribution, and Tenstorrent sends payment instructions after that.
You must be legally eligible to participate under the program terms, and your contribution must follow the license of the repository. If you stop responding for more than two weeks, the issue may be given to someone else. The tt-metal contributing guide forbids using AI agents or automated tools to claim or request bounty issues; accounts that do this are banned. Tenstorrent says it can change or end the program at any time.
The program started on 24 February 2025 and is still active. New bounty issues were opened in tt-metal on 28 and 29 September 2026, with others from July, August and September 2026 still open. Questions go to bounties@tenstorrent.com.