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Design Verification Engineer - SoC

Etched · San Jose

Infrastructureonsite$150k–$350k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Verify custom IPs including systolic arrays, DMA engines, and NoCs.
  • Drive end-to-end performance tuning across hardware, software, and architecture.
  • Build hardware for frontier intelligence focused on high-throughput inference.

What they offer

  • Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
  • $2.5k per month housing subsidy within walking distance of office
  • Relocation support to San Jose (Santana Row)
  • Wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
  • Daily lunch and dinner in office
  • Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

Ideal candidate

Creative, deeply technical verification engineer who loves tackling complex performance challenges and optimizing hardware-software systems for frontier AI inference.

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
Fully in-person

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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