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Design Verification Engineer - SoC

Etched· ASIC
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San Jose$150k - $350kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Design Verification Engineer to join the Systems/Performance Verification team verifying perf features of custom IPs (systolic arrays, DMA engines, NoCs), collaborating with architects, RTL, and SW/FW/emulation teams to validate correctness and performance across the hardware-software stack.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with architects and RTL designers on verifying the performance features of the design and correlating with performance models (both pre-silicon and post-silicon).
  • Work closely with software and application developers on identifying performance bottlenecks and tuning the software.
  • Develop test plans and test infrastructure/tools for performance tuning, correlation, and verification.
  • Improve and maintain the architectural performance models.
  • Develop tests in SystemVerilog, Python, or vectors to debug and correlate the RTL and performance model.
  • Develop SystemVerilog or Python-based checkers for verifying the performance features.
  • Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage to ensure all performance features are covered.
  • Debug performance issues and conduct performance tuning on silicon.
  • Drive end-to-end performance tuning, ensuring optimal hardware utilization, software efficiency, and architectural alignment across the ASIC design lifecycle.

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.

Skills

Required:Digital design and RTLPerformance verificationSystemVerilogPython scriptingPerformance modelingMemory hierarchies and pipelinesPerformance bottleneck analysis
Nice to have:Kernel performance metrics

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
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Etched is building frontier inference clusters: co-designs chips, racks, software and manufacturing to push the pareto frontier for AI hardware.

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