RTL Design 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

• Develop and implement design verification strategies for existing and upcoming ASIC designs
• Implement blocks to efficiently compute floating point math operators
• Provide feedback to the uArch team to ensure blocks meet timing and area constraints
• Work closely with state-of-the-art architectures for machine learning

Requirements

• At least 5 years of work experience in RTL development
• Experience with high-speed digital logic
• Proficiency in standard RTL design and synthesis tools
• Familiarity with verification work and writing test benches
• Ability to learn quickly about transformers and modern artificial intelligence

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PCIe, Ethernet, or HBM technologies
• Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures
• Familiarity with numerical representations and functions
• Ability to program with Python or another scripting language

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 the office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification