Physical Design Intern
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Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.
San Jose, United States
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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.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will help turn front-end designs into silicon and improve iteration speed to final sign-off. You will assist with developing and running physical design flows, synthesizing blocks, automating final design checks, and advising RTL design decisions.
Requirements
- Progress toward a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field
- Familiarity with high-speed digital logic
- Exposure to ASIC or SoC design concepts
- Familiarity with SystemVerilog, UVM, or Python
- Familiarity with verification work and writing test benches
- Familiarity with physical design flows and tooling
- Ability to learn quickly about transformers and modern artificial intelligence
Responsibilities
- Develop and run physical design flows
- Synthesize blocks
- Automate final design checks
- Advise RTL design decisions
- Help improve iteration speed to final sign-off
Benefits
- 12-week paid internship
- Housing support for relocating employees
- Daily lunch and dinner in the office
- Direct mentorship