Front-End CAD Engineer

Experience developing and maintaining front-end IC design flows, including scripting and EDA tool configuration.

Proficiency with (at least some) key verification tools: RTL simulation, static checks (lint/CDC/RDC), formal tools and low power tools.

Ability to automate and optimize CAD workflows for chip design verification.

Ability to interface with EDA vendors as well as internal users, identify the internal needs and priorities and bring in the relevant capabilities

A can-do attitude and velocity of going from a problem sighting to a deployable solution.

(Bonus) Hands-on RTL design experience, including ownership of a design block to validate CAD methodologies.

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

Housing subsidy of

$2,000/month

for those living within walking distance of the office

Daily lunch and dinner in our office

Relocation support for those moving to Cupertino

Own and manage Etched’s front-end CAD environment including build flows, tool-specific flows and tool installation and configuration.

Evaluate, deploy, and sustain front-end tools including but not limited to: RTL simulator, low power checker, static RTL checkers such as Lint, and CDC/RDC/SDC/DFT, and formal verification (both property and equivalence) checkers.

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. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents.