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RTL Design Engineer

Etched· ASIC
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San Jose$150k - $275kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

RTL Engineer role focused on developing and implementing design verification strategies for Etched's AI ASIC designs, with emphasis on learning fast about transformers and modern AI architectures, in a fast-paced, autonomous environment.

Responsibilities

  • Implement a block to efficiently compute floating point math operators
  • Provide feedback to the uArch team to make sure blocks meet timing and area constraints
  • Develop and implement design verification strategies for existing and upcoming ASIC designs

Qualifications

  • At least 5 years of work experience in RTL development
  • Experience with high-speed digital logic
  • Proficiency in standard RTL design and synthesis tools
  • Familiarity with verification work and writing test benches
  • Are able to learn quickly about transformers and other aspects of modern artificial intelligence
  • Willing to start quickly

Skills

Required:RTL developmenthigh-speed digital logicverification and test benchessynthesis toolslearning AI architectures (transformers, ML/LLM)

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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