Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

About Etched

Etched is building the world's first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents. 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

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Post Silicon Validation Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for bringing up, validating, and characterizing ASICs from first silicon through the production ramp. This role is crucial in ensuring functional correctness, performance, and reliability of our AI / ML accelerator hardware, enabling successful deployment of our cutting-edge products.

Key Responsibilities

Silicon Bring-Up & Debug

• Drive early bring-up of first silicon, including boot, initialization, and debug of ASICs.
• Perform deep-dive debug of silicon issues across RTL, firmware, and system levels.
• Collaborate closely with design, verification, and board teams to root-cause and resolve functional and electrical issues.

IP Validation & Characterization

Infrastructure & Automation

Cross-Functional Collaboration

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Benefits

Base Salary Compensation

How we're different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models, and the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model-specific hardware. Larger and larger training runs encourage companies to consolidate around fewer model architectures, which creates a market for single-model ASICs.

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 as needed.