Physical Design Engineer

About the Company

Etched is building AI chips that are hard-coded for individual model architectures. Our first product (Sohu) only supports transformers, but has an order of magnitude more throughput and lower latency than a B200. We are a fully in-person team in Cupertino that values engineering skills and integrates research with engineering.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the outsourcing of physical design to a 3rd party service
• Run Physical Design flows to close blocks and support ASIC infrastructure
• Automate Physical Design flows and improve CAD infrastructure
• Drive dashboards that show the convergence of projects related to Physical Design
• Optimize tool flows and work with EDA vendors to incorporate the latest features
• Maintain accountability for block level closure

Requirements

• 2+ years of previous experience with Physical Design
• Knowledge of tools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off
• Experience with back-end design and timing closure on 3nm-7nm
• Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology, power verification, synthesis, scan insertion/ATPG, formal verification, floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing, IR drop, and EM/antenna analysis
• Ability to think from first principles

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with transformer models and machine learning
• Familiarity with OpenROAD and other automated RTL-to-GDSII flows
• Ability to program with Python or another scripting language

Benefits

• Full medical, dental, and vision packages (100% premium covered for employees, 90% for dependents)
• Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office
• Daily lunch and dinner in the office
• Relocation support for those moving to Cupertino