Design Verification Engineer - SoC
Etched · Austin
Infrastructureonsite$150k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Verify custom IPs like systolic arrays, DMA engines and NoCs for next-gen AI chips.
- Tune full hardware-software stack performance from pre-silicon models to silicon.
- Build chips, racks and software delivering best-in-class inference throughput.
What they offer
- Significant equity
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- Daily lunch + dinner in office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Ideal candidate
A creative, deeply technical verification engineer who thrives on complex performance challenges and collaborates across architecture, design, and software to squeeze the most from AI hardware.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of digital design, RTL, and ASIC design flows
- Hands-on experience with performance verification, simulation, and modeling
- Comfortable developing checkers, coverage monitors, and testbenches in SystemVerilog
- Skilled in writing Python scripts for automation, data analysis, and performance modeling
- Experience building and maintaining performance models for chip subsystems
- Understanding of memory hierarchies, pipelines, interconnects, and compute accelerators
- Familiarity with performance bottleneck analysis, compiler optimizations, and workload tuning
- Some exposure to kernel level performance metrics and profiling tools
- remote policy
- On-site in Austin with regular travel to San Jose
Lab profile
About Etched
Building specialized AI chips and systems for frontier inference with best-in-class throughput and latency.
What they build
- Sohu AI inference chip
- AI racks and hardware systems
- Inference software stack
Known for
- Full-stack co-design of chips, racks, software and manufacturing
- Best-in-class throughput and latency for prefill and decode
- Inference-optimized architecture
Key facts
- Backed by hundreds of millions from top-tier investors
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