Etched
SI/PI Engineer
San Jose · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 82 days ago
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About the role
- We are looking for a Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (SI/PI) Engineer to join our platform electrical engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Perform pre- and post-layout SI simulations for high-speed serial interfaces including PCIe Gen5/Gen6, 112G/224G Ethernet.
- Develop and maintain COM, IBIS, S-parameter, and SPICE models
- Execute power delivery network (PDN) design and analysis: target impedance profiling, decoupling capacitor selection, AC/DC power analysis, and IR-drop simulation.
- Drive DFI and design rule checks for SI/PI compliance
- Collaborate with PCB design and layout engineers, and ASIC teams to define and review design guidelines early in the product lifecycle.
- Support bring-up, debug signal quality issues, and document root-cause findings with clear corrective actions.
- Develop and maintain simulation-to-hardware correlation databases to continuously improve modelling accuracy.
- 5+ years of hands-on SI/PI experience on high-speed designs (>1 Gbps serial links or DDR4/5 and HBM3/4 memory interfaces).
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Requirements
- Proficiency with industry SI/PI EDA tools (Cadence Sigrity, Ansys SIwave/HFSS, Keysight ADS, or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of transmission line theory, return-loss, insertion-loss, crosstalk, eye-diagram analysis, and jitter decomposition.
- Experience with PDN modelling, target impedance methodology, and DC IR analysis.
- You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)
Skills
- Prior work in data center, AI/ML accelerator, networking, or high-performance computing (HPC) hardware environments.
- Experience scripting automated SI/PI simulation flows using Python or MATLAB to reduce manual simulation turnaround time.
- S-parameter measurements with VNA, time-domain reflectometry (TDR), BERT operation, and oscilloscope probing techniques
- Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
- Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- Daily lunch and dinner in our office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
- How we're different
- Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html.
Company info
- We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes.
- We are a fully in-person team in San Jose and Taipei, and greatly value engineering skills.
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