Design Verification Engineer SoC
Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.
Funding history
About Etched
Etched co-designs chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems for efficient inference of frontier AI models, targeting throughput, latency, cost, and power efficiency across prefill and decode workloads.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will verify performance features across the ASIC lifecycle and correlate RTL behavior with architectural performance models before and after silicon. You will create test plans, tests, checkers, coverage monitors, and automation tools. You will investigate bottlenecks, tune software and silicon performance, maintain performance models, and drive end-to-end hardware and software utilization improvements.
Requirements
- Digital design
- RTL
- ASIC design flow
- Performance verification
- Simulation
- Performance modeling
- SystemVerilog
- Python
- Checker development
- Coverage analysis
- Memory hierarchy
- Pipeline
- Interconnect
- Compute accelerator
- Performance bottleneck analysis
- Compiler optimization
- Kernel profiling
Responsibilities
- Verify design performance features and correlate them with performance models
- Identify performance bottlenecks and tune software with application developers
- Develop test plans and infrastructure for performance tuning, correlation, and verification
- Improve and maintain architectural performance models
- Develop SystemVerilog, Python, or vector-based tests
- Develop checkers for performance features
- Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage
- Debug performance issues and tune silicon performance
- Drive end-to-end performance tuning across the ASIC lifecycle
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Housing subsidy of $2.5k per month for employees living within walking distance
- Relocation support for moves to San Jose
- Wellness benefits
- Daily lunch and dinner in the office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification