Emulation 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

• Oversee SoC bring-up on emulation platforms and resolve failing SoC/processor tests
• Develop and maintain automated build and regression flows for pre-silicon validation
• Provide support across emulation environments using C/C++ DPI transactors and coverage analysis
• Collaborate with Design, DV, Silicon Validation, Performance, and Software teams
• Develop high-performance infrastructure to capture debugging signals
• Implement hybrid emulation environments using custom DPI-based streaming transactors
• Create highly configurable chip-to-chip network models
• Build and maintain CI pipelines and git-based workflows

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with emulation platforms (Palladium, Protium, Veloce, ZeBu, or HAPS)
• Strong C/C++ and Linux system development skills
• Proficiency with SystemVerilog and Verilog, including DPI-based interfaces
• Experience with git-based development workflows and Python scripting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with UVM verification environments
• Background in design verification, DFT, and testbench modeling
• Familiarity with waveform debug tools such as Verdi or SimVision
• Experience with SLURM or similar job schedulers
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) for hardware validation

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 our office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification