Etchedai

Physical Design Engineer

Cupertino, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 118 days ago

PythonMachine LearningNLPResearch

About the role

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.
How we're different: Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson.
We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.

Etched is building AI chips that are hard-coded for individual model architectures.
Our first product (Sohu) only supports transformers, but has an order of magnitude more throughput and lower latency than a B200.
Physical Design Engineer
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.
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
Relocation support for those moving to Cupertino

2+ years of previous experience with PD
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
Familiarity with OpenROAD and other automated RTL-to-GDSII flows
Ability to program with Python or another scripting language.
Familiarity with transformer models and machine learning.

Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with 100% of premium covered, 90% for dependents

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