Design Verification Intern

Responsibilities

• Ensure custom IPs such as systolic arrays, DMA engines, and NoCs are robust, high-performance, and silicon-ready
• Collaborate with architects, RTL designers, and SW/FW/emulation teams
• Validate correctness and performance across the full hardware-software stack
• Tackle complex verification challenges

Requirements

• Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related field
• Familiarity with high-speed digital logic
• Exposure to ASIC or SoC design concepts
• Familiarity with SystemVerilog, UVM, or Python
• Familiarity with verification work and writing test benches
• Familiarity with physical design flows and tooling
• Ability to learn quickly about transformers and modern AI

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures
• UVM or formal verification experience
• Ability to program with Python or another scripting language

Benefits

• 12-week paid internship
• Generous housing support for relocating interns
• Daily lunch and dinner provided in office
• Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers

About the Company

Etched builds hardware for frontier intelligence, co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency for inference workloads. The company is backed by top-tier investors and staffed by leading engineers, operating as a fully in-person team in San Jose.