Chip Simulation Software Engineer

About the Company

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads. Our first products are heavily focused on inference.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain simulations of our hardware
• Influence architectural decisions through review and co-design
• Create and maintain test plans and work with hardware teams to validate documentation
• Build tools to debug simulations and enable developers to debug software running on the simulator

Requirements

• Proficiency in C/C++
• Strong understanding of low-level software engineering
• Strong understanding of hardware engineering
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing hardware or system simulations (e.g., SystemC, gem5, QEMU, or custom frameworks)
• Experience with custom ML hardware accelerators (e.g., Google TPU)
• Experience with firmware, kernel and driver development (e.g., Linux, FreeRTOS)
• Experience with hardware development and verification
• Experience with multiprocessing and multithreading
• Familiarity with bit-accurate numerics modeling
• Experience with performance profiling and optimization of simulation code
• Proficiency with Python, Bazel, and Git

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
• $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
• Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
• Relocation support for those moving to San Jose
• Various wellness benefits covering fitness and mental health
• Daily lunch and dinner in the office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification