Etched
Design Verification Engineer - SoC
About this role
Etched seeks a Design Verification Engineer to validate custom chip components like systolic arrays, DMA engines, and NoCs for AI inference hardware. You'll develop verification infrastructure, correlate performance models with RTL, and collaborate across architecture, design, and software teams to ensure silicon-ready, high-performance designs.
What you'll do
- Develop test plans and verification infrastructure for performance validation and silicon correlation
- Create SystemVerilog and Python-based tests, checkers, and coverage monitors for performance features
- Collaborate with architects and RTL designers to verify design performance against architectural models
- Build and maintain performance models for chip subsystems and correlate with pre/post-silicon results
- Work with software teams to identify bottlenecks and optimize hardware-software integration
- Debug performance issues and conduct silicon tuning across the full ASIC design lifecycle
What they're looking for
- SystemVerilog testbench and checker development
- Python scripting for automation and performance modeling
- Digital design and ASIC design flows
- Performance modeling and simulation
- Understanding of memory hierarchies, pipelines, and interconnects
- Performance bottleneck analysis and profiling tools
- Coverage analysis and monitoring
- Compiler optimizations and workload tuning
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with $500/month waive credit
- $2k monthly housing subsidy for those near the San Jose office
- Relocation support for moving to San Jose
- Daily lunch and dinner at office
- Wellness benefits including fitness and mental health
- Unlimited compute budget with ROI justification
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Etched
Etched builds AI inference hardware, designing and manufacturing complex mechanical and electrical components for data center systems. The company is hiring mechanical engineers, PCB designers, hardware verification engineers, and software engineers to develop manufacturing processes, circuit boards, verification infrastructure, and internal tools across its hardware and operations.
- Website
- etched.com
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience with SystemVerilog testbench development and how you've used it to verify performance features in RTL designs.
- Describe a time you built or maintained a performance model for a chip subsystem. How did you correlate it with actual RTL simulation or silicon results?