Etchedai

Etchedai

Senior Firmware Engineer

Cupertino, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 118 days ago
PythonJavaGoRustC++Full-Stack DevelopmentData StructuresNLPEmbedded SystemsLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  • Contribute to the development of AI solutions that will revolutionize industries like natural language processing, chain of reasoning automation, generative media.

Responsibilities

  • Etched.ai is developing groundbreaking hardware that will power the next generation of artificial intelligence.
  • Our ASIC systems deliver orders of magnitude higher performance than conventional AI chips.
  • Etched is actively developing Sohu, an ASIC exclusively for transformers, which will enable products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep chain-of-thought reasoning.
  • Sohu is hard-coded for individual model architectures and only supports transformers, but has an order of magnitude more throughput and lower latency than a B200.
  • Design cutting-edge software optimizing the performance of our Sohu chip and unlocking the full potential of very large transformer models.
  • Co-Develop with a world-class team of hardware and software engineers to push the boundaries of AI technology.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • 5 years of experience with firmware design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
  • 5 years of experience with embedded architectures, IO technologies (I2C, SPI, PCIe, DRAM etc.), as well as concepts like scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency.
  • Experience with embedded systems, high-performance computing or distributed systems.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
  • Experience with Java or Go, with the ability to resolve customer-related issues.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Work on the most advanced AI hardware in the world.
  • Make a meaningful contribution to the future of technology.
  • If you're a talented software engineer who's excited to shape the future of AI, we encourage you to apply!
  • Please visit our website at etched.ai/careers to submit your resume and cover letter.

Skills

  • Solve challenging problems across the full stack, from low-level drivers and APIs to high-level applications and frameworks.

Compensation

  • Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package.

Benefits

  • We're searching for passionate software engineers to join our fast growing team.

Company info

  • Etched was founded on the belief that new hardware will be needed to run human- and superhuman-level artificial intelligence.

This listing is sourced directly from Etchedai's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.