Physical Design Engineer
etchedSan Jose, CA
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Physical Design Engineer
etchedSan Jose, CA
today
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Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life SciencesSemiconductor and Related Device ManufacturingElectronic Computer Manufacturing$2.5k per month
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About EtchedEtched 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. Backed by hundreds of millions from top-tier investors and staffed by leading engineers, Etched is redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest growing industry in history.
Job Summary:
Etched is looking for exceptional Physical Design engineers to join our team. In this role, youwill own block-level implementation and verification, drive timing closure and PPA optimization, supervise 3rd party design work, and help improve our design flows and iteration speed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deeply understand what is involved in physical design
- Running PD flows to close blocks, support ASIC infrastructure, automate PD flows, improve CAD infrastructure
- Collaborate with RTL Designers and provide Physical Design feedback to improve PPADrive dashboards that show the convergence of projects related to PDOptimize tool flows, working with EDA vendors to incorporate the latest features
- Accountable for block level closure
- Supervise the outsourcing of physical design to a 3rd party service
- You may be a good fit if you have 5-10+ years of previous experience with PDTools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off
- Experience with back-end design and timing closure on advanced process nodes (5nm and below)
- Experience with Cadence (Innovus, Genus) or Synopsys (ICC2, Fusion Compiler) automated RTL-to-GDSII flows
- Experience with sign-off tools (PrimeTime, Tempus, Voltus, etc.)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
- Deeply creative and able to think from first principles
- Strong candidates may also have experience with
- Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures
- Ability to program with Python or another scripting language
- Familiarity with AI tools for programming/coding
- Startup experience or comfort working in fast-paced environments
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage$500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Housing subsidy of $2.5k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
- Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- Daily lunch + dinner in our office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
- How we're different:
Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.
We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.
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$2.5k per month
Experience level
Lead
Location
San Jose, CA
Occupation
Computer Hardware Engineers
Industry
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
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