RTL Design Engineer

Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.

San Jose, United States
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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About the Role

You will develop RTL designs for AI chips, including blocks for floating-point operations. You will work with machine-learning architectures, provide microarchitecture feedback, and help ensure designs meet timing and area constraints.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of RTL development experience
  • High-speed digital logic experience
  • Standard RTL design and synthesis tool proficiency
  • Verification and test-bench experience
  • Knowledge of transformers and modern artificial intelligence

Responsibilities

  • Implement blocks for floating-point math operations
  • Provide microarchitecture feedback to ensure blocks meet timing and area constraints

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
  • $2.5k monthly housing subsidy for employees within walking distance of the office
  • Relocation support to San Jose
  • Wellness benefits
  • Daily office lunch and dinner
  • Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification