Platform Validation 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

• Perform system hardware and PCB functional verification to ensure all features meet design specifications
• Collect and analyze lab data to verify power delivery, signal integrity, and overall system robustness
• Support post-silicon validation by identifying key performance metrics and conducting PVT, power, and thermal characterization
• Evaluate PCIe performance, including signal integrity, eye opening measurements (EOM), and bit error rate (BER)
• Identify hardware issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive issues to resolution
• Design and execute DOE experiments to debug hardware issues and optimize system performance
• Validate power sequencing, microcontroller functionality, and conduct power efficiency, noise, and transient analysis
• Perform detailed characterization of I2C bus systems
• Track and document PCB issues and validation results
• Collaborate with design, firmware, and system engineering teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Proven experience with hardware validation, lab testing, and PCB-level debugging
• Strong understanding of power integrity and signal integrity principles
• Familiarity with PCIe, I2C, and other common hardware interfaces and protocols
• Experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and power supplies
• Hands-on experience debugging hardware issues and performing root cause analysis
• Knowledge of power sequencing and microcontroller-based systems
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or Matlab

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