Etched
Design Verification Engineer - SoC
Austin. Posted 7 months ago
The role
You will ensure custom IPs like systolic arrays, DMA engines, and NoCs are robust and silicon-ready. You will collaborate with architects, RTL designers, and software teams to validate correctness and performance across the hardware-software stack.
What you will do
- Work with architects and RTL designers on verifying performance features and correlating with performance models.
- Work with software and application developers on identifying performance bottlenecks and tuning software.
- Develop test plans and test infrastructure/tools for performance tuning, correlation, and verification.
- Improve and maintain architectural performance models.
- Develop tests in SystemVerilog, Python, or vectors to debug and correlate RTL and performance model.
- Develop SystemVerilog or Python-based checkers for verifying performance features.
- Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage.
- Debug performance issues and conduct performance tuning on silicon.
- Drive end-to-end performance tuning across the ASIC design lifecycle.
Required qualifications
- Strong understanding of digital design, RTL, and ASIC design flows.
- Hands-on experience with performance verification, simulation, and modeling.
- Comfortable developing checkers, coverage monitors, and testbenches in SystemVerilog.
- Skilled in writing Python scripts for automation, data analysis, and performance modeling.
- Experience building and maintaining performance models for chip subsystems.
- Understanding of memory hierarchies, pipelines, interconnects, and compute accelerators.
- Familiarity with performance bottleneck analysis, compiler optimizations, and workload tuning.
- Some exposure to kernel level performance metrics and profiling tools.
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
- Daily lunch + dinner in our office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
About the company
Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence by co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing. The company is an inference-focused frontier AI system.