Etched
PD Intern
San Jose · Intern · Internship
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 64 days ago
PythonSpringMachine LearningNLPLLMsVerilogElectrical EngineeringResearchMentoring
About the role
- We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.
Responsibilities
- As a Physical Design intern for Etched, you will be responsible for realizing our front-end designs in silicon, helping Etched to improve iteration speed to final signoff.
- You will assist in developing and running Physical Design flows to synthesize blocks, automate final design checks, and advise RTL design decisions.
- Exposure to ASIC or SoC design concepts
- Generous housing support for those relocating
Requirements
- Progress towards a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.
- Familiarity with high-speed digital logic
- Familiarity with SystemVerilog, UVM, or Python
- Familiarity with verification work and writing test benches
- Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures
- Familiarity with numerical representations and functions (RTL)
- Familiarity with clocking and reset schemes (RTL/PD)
- Ability to program with Python or another scripting language
Company info
- We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes.
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