Physical Design Engineer

1 month 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 building custom hardware for individual model architectures. 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 what is involved in 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
Why Join Etched?

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson, and we think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models. We are a fully in-person team in Cupertino, and we 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.

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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