Principal Physical Design Engineer

4 weeks ago


Cupertino, United States ETCHED LLC Full time

Physical Design Engineer Etched is building the hardware for superintelligence.

GPUs and TPUs are flexible AI chips that can run many kinds of models: CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs, and more. But today, almost all AI workloads, from ChatGPT to self-driving cars, are done on one model architecture: transformers. Using flexible AI chips for transformers is very inefficient:

Etched is building a single-purpose chip exclusively for transformer inference. We only support transformers, but in exchange our chips have an order of magnitude more throughput and lower latency than an H100. With Etched, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like tree-of-thought agents and ultra-low-latency audio chat bots.

Etched is looking for exceptional PD engineers to join our team. The candidate will be responsible for working with 3rd party design services to implement and verify physical designs, and will help Etched as we work to improve iteration speed on physical design.

Responsibilities:

Supervise the outsourcing of physical design to a 3rd party service

Deeply understand what is involved in physical design

Running Physical Design flows to close blocks, support ASIC infrastructure, automate Physical Design flows, improve CAD infrastructure

Drive dashboards that show the convergence of projects related to Physical Design

Optimize tool flows, working with EDA vendors to incorporate the latest features

Accountable for block level closure

Requirements:

5+ years of previous experience with PD

Tools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off

Experience with back-end design and timing closure on 3nm-7nm

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

Desired qualifications:

Familiarity with OpenROAD and other automated RTL-to-GDSII flows

Familiarity with transformer models and machine learning.

Ability to program with Python or another scripting language.

Benefits:

Competitive salary and equity package

Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with 100% of premium covered

Work with world-class people and state-of-the-art AIs everyday

Etched is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Compensation is determined based on your qualifications and experience. Compensation packages also include generous equity in Etched.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.

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