Power Validation Engineer
Etched · San Jose
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own end-to-end power characterization of custom ASIC and mezzanine platform.
- Drive validation findings directly into silicon, package, and system design.
- Characterize peak and sustained power across realistic LLM inference workloads.
What they offer
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- $2,500 per month housing subsidy for living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support for moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
- Daily lunch and dinner in the office
- Wellness benefits covering fitness and mental health
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Ideal candidate
Hands-on power debug expert who loves the lab and thrives on rare transients. You enjoy owning measurements end-to-end and turning data into clear silicon and system design decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
- Deep understanding of ASIC and system-level power delivery including VRM topology and PDN impedance
- Hands-on bench experience with precision shunts, isolated differential probes, and VNA-based PDN measurement
- Expertise with multi-phase power solutions with high dynamic content and low tolerance
- Strong oscilloscope and lab instrument fluency including triggering on rare transient events
- Relevant experience with silicon bring-up
- remote policy
- Fully in-person, no remote
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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