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Power Validation Engineer

Etched · San Jose

CHECKED 6H AGO

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own end-to-end power characterization of ASIC and mezzanine card to production.
  • Drive silicon, package and system decisions from power and thermal findings.
  • Run 72h+ stress workloads to surface reliability risks and throttling behavior.

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 office
  • Relocation support for moving 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

Hands-on power validation engineer who loves the lab and thrives debugging complex hardware-software interactions. You care about measurement rigor and turning data into clear design decisions for cutting-edge AI hardware.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • Deep understanding of ASIC and system-level power delivery including VRM topology, PDN impedance, decoupling strategy and transient response
  • Hands-on bench experience with precision shunts, isolated differential probes, and VNA-based PDN impedance measurement
  • Expertise with multi-phase power solutions with high dynamic content and low tolerance, including VR tuning
  • Strong oscilloscope and lab instrument fluency for triggering on rare transient events and correlating multi-channel captures
  • Track record of finding bugs that only surface under specific workload or environmental conditions in complex hardware-software stack
  • Relevant experience with silicon bring-up
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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