Power Integrity Engineer
Etched · San Jose
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own power integrity methodology for high-power PCB and system designs.
- Ensure robust power delivery to high-performance ASICs across conditions.
- Support bring-up and debug rail-level droop, ripple, and transient issues.
What they offer
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Housing subsidy of $2,500 per month for those living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
- Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- Daily lunch and dinner in our office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Ideal candidate
A hands-on power integrity engineer who thrives owning methodology end-to-end. You sweat high-current delivery details to enable reliable frontier AI hardware.
Requirements
- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline
- 5+ years of hands-on PI experience on high-current, high-performance designs (ASIC/CPU/GPU power delivery, server boards, or accelerator platforms)
- Proficiency with industry PI EDA tools (Ansys SIwave, Cadence Sigrity PowerDC/PowerSI/OptimizePI, or equivalent)
- Strong understanding of target impedance methodology, decoupling network design, plane resonances, and anti-resonance mitigation
- Experience with DC IR-drop analysis, current density limits, and via/plane current-carrying capacity
- Working knowledge of VRM fundamentals: buck converter operation, multiphase design, transient response, and load-line/AVP concepts
- Working knowledge of multi-layer PCB stack-up design and power plane allocation strategies
- 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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