RTL Design Engineer

About this role

Etched is seeking a RTL Design Engineer to join their Silicon & Chip Design team. This role involves cutting-edge work in AI acceleration and semiconductor technologies. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in their area of specialization and a passion for pushing the boundaries of hardware and software co-design.

What you’ll do

• Define micro-architecture and implement RTL for high-performance blocks
• Partner with verification, DFT and physical design to close timing, power and area
• Drive designs from specification through tape-out and post-silicon bring-up

Required silicon / compute stack

• SystemVerilog
• RTL
• UVM
• Synthesis / STA
• DFT
• Physical Design

Requirements

• BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
• Strong SystemVerilog/Verilog and industry-standard EDA tool experience
• Solid understanding of digital design, timing closure and low-power techniques

Typical for this role category. See the employer’s official posting for the exact requirements.

About Etched

Etched is building Sohu, a transformer-specific ASIC designed to deliver far higher throughput for transformer inference than general-purpose GPUs.