What are the responsibilities and job description for the Front-End CAD Engineer position at Etched?
About Etched
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.
Key responsibilities
- 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.
- Configure and manage project execution dashboard.
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Benefits
How we're different
Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models, and the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model-specific hardware. Larger and larger training runs encourage companies to consolidate around fewer model architectures, which creates a market for single-model ASICs.
We are a fully in-person team in Cupertino, and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.
Salary : $2,000
