Physical Design Engineer

2 weeks ago

Cupertino, California, United States ETCHED LLC Full time
About Etched

Etched is a pioneering company in the field of AI chip design, specializing in creating model-specific hardware that outperforms traditional GPUs. Our flagship product, Sohu, boasts an order of magnitude more throughput and lower latency than a B200, making it an ideal choice for real-time video generation models and extremely deep chain-of-thought reasoning.

Job Description

We are seeking an exceptional Physical Design Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for collaborating with 3rd party design services to implement and verify physical designs, and will play a key role in improving iteration speed on physical design.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Supervise the outsourcing of physical design to a 3rd party service
  • Deeply understand the intricacies of physical design
  • Run Physical Design flows to close blocks, support ASIC infrastructure, automate Physical Design flows, and 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:
  • 2+ 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 transformer models and machine learning
  • Familiarity with OpenROAD and other automated RTL-to-GDSII flows
  • Ability to program with Python or another scripting language

We encourage candidates to apply even if they do not believe they meet every single qualification. Our team values engineering skills and expects all technical staff to contribute to both engineering and research as needed.

How We're Different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson, which states that most progress in the AI field comes from using more FLOPs to train and run models. We think the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model-specific hardware. Our fully in-person team in Cupertino greatly values engineering skills and does not have boundaries between engineering and research.

Benefits
  • Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with 100% of premium covered, 90% for dependents
  • Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office
  • Daily lunch and dinner in our office
  • Relocation support for those moving to Cupertino

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