Physical Design Engineer

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 chain-of-thought reasoning.

Etched is looking for exceptional PD engineers to join our team. 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

Accountable for block level closure