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We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads. Our first products are heavily focused on inference. Backed by hundreds of millions from top-tier investors and staffed by leading engineers, Etched is redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest growing industry in history.\nWhat you'll do\nOwn HAPS bring-up. Take RTL from the design teams and get it running on the prototype - partitioning, multi-FPGA timing closure, clocking, memory mapping, and full-chip assembly.\n\nExpand platform coverage. Stand up new subsystem configurations so more of the chip is available to software earlier. Each new partition you enable unblocks a team.\n\nSupport your users. Firmware, driver, and software engineers are your customers. You'll help them get running, triage their failures, and figure out whether the bug is theirs, the RTL's, or the platform's.\n\nDebug hard problems. Trace issues across FPGA boundaries with waveform capture, protocol analyzers, and whatever tooling you have to build yourself.\n\nBring up interfaces. PCIe, Ethernet, HBM and memory models, JTAG, I2C, UART, QSPI - both the models and the physical bridges.\n\nBuild the flows. Automate builds, regressions, and image delivery so the platform scales past the number of people who understand it.\n\nWork across the org. Design, DV, Silicon Validation, Performance, Firmware, and Software - plus direct partnership with Synopsys on tool issues and platform capability.\n\nRepresentative projects\nBring up a new subsystem partition on HAPS and get firmware booting on it end to end.\n\nBuild a self-service flow that lets software users load and run their own images without prototyping support in the loop.\n\nInstrument deep trace capture across partition boundaries and build the tooling that surfaces it usefully.\n\nCreate configurable chip-to-chip and off-chip interface models using prototyping-efficient primitives.\n\nClose timing on a partition that doesn't want to close, and document how you did it so the next person doesn't have to rediscover it.\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\nHands-on FPGA prototyping experience - HAPS, Protium, proFPGA, S2C, or similar - covering partitioning, synthesis, timing closure, bring-up, and debug.\n\nStrong SystemVerilog and Verilog, with a working understanding of what synthesizes well for FPGA and what doesn't.\n\nSolid C/C++ and Linux system development.\n\nScripting fluency for automation - Python, TCL, shell.\n\nComfort debugging failures you didn't cause, in code you didn't write, for users who need an answer today.\n\nStrong candidates may also have\nExperience with ProtoCompiler, Vivado, or Synopsys prototyping flows.\n\nFirmware, driver, or bootloader bring-up experience on pre-silicon platforms.\n\nExperience with emulation platforms (ZeBu, Palladium, Veloce) alongside prototyping - we run both, and the collateral is shared.\n\nUVM verification environments, DFT, and testbench modeling.\n\nWaveform debug tooling: Verdi, SimVision.\n\nCluster and job scheduling experience (SLURM), CI systems.\n\nBenefits\nMedical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n$500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\nHousing subsidy of $2,500 per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\nRelocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\nVarious wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\nDaily lunch and dinner in our office\n\nUnlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\nCompensation Range\n$150,000 - $275,000\n\nHow we’re different\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson. 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