Etched
Emulation Engineer
San Jose · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$275kDetected 50 days ago
PythonC++GitCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsLinuxNLPVerilogResearch
About the role
- Our first products are heavily focused on inference.
- Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.
- We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automated build and regression flows to accelerate pre-silicon validation and software development.
- Collaborate closely with Design, DV, Silicon Validation, Performance, and Software teams, and partner with leading emulation vendors to enhance platform capabilities and resolve complex issues.
- Develop high-performance infrastructure to capture debugging signals and surface actionable insights for users.
- Create highly configurable chip-to-chip network models using emulation-efficient primitives.
- Build and maintain CI pipelines and git-based workflows for emulation build reproducibility and regression tracking.
- Background in design verification, DFT, and testbench modeling.
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with emulation platforms such as Palladium, Protium, Veloce, ZeBu, or HAPS, covering design bring-up, build flows, debugging, and performance tuning.
- Proficiency with SystemVerilog and Verilog, including DPI-based interfaces.
- Experience with git-based development workflows and scripting (Python) for automation and flow development.
- Experience with UVM verification environments.
- Familiarity with waveform debug tools such as Verdi or SimVision.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions) applied to hardware or pre-silicon validation flows.
- You may be a good fit if you have
- Strong candidates may also have experience with
Compensation
- $150,000 - $275,000
- How we're different
- Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html.
- We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes.
- Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.
- We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- Provide support across emulation environments using advanced techniques including C/C++ DPI transactors, coverage analysis, and in-circuit emulation for high-speed protocols.
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 (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills.
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