Design Verification Engineer - SoC

The role

You will verify the performance features of custom IPs including systolic arrays, DMA engines, and NoCs. You will collaborate with architects, RTL designers, and software teams to validate correctness and performance across the hardware-software stack.

What you will do

• Verify performance features of the design and correlate with performance models
• Work with software and application developers to identify performance bottlenecks and tune 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
• Housing subsidy of $2.5k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
• Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
• 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. They are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row).