Design Verification Intern

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

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

Requirements

• Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a 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 those relocating
• Daily lunch and dinner in our office
• Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers