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Etched · 3 months ago

Chip Simulation Software Engineer

San Jose

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$200K/yr - $250K/yr

Etched is building AI chips that are hard-coded for individual model architectures. They are seeking highly motivated software engineers to join their chip simulation team, focusing on designing and developing simulations for their custom hardware systems and ensuring close collaboration between hardware and software teams.

AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)ComputerHardwareSemiconductor

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Simulation Development: Design, develop, and maintain simulations of our hardware. Ensuring high levels of accuracy, efficient debugging, and optimal performance

Documentation: Create and maintain test plans, work with hardware teams to validate their documentation

Debug tooling: Build tools to debug simulations, and enable developers to debug software running on the simulator

Cross-functional Collaboration and Troubleshooting: Chip simulation engineers are expected to work closely with both hardware and software engineers to make sure that our simulations are accurate, and that software engineers are able to use them with a high level of productivity

Qualification

C/C++Low-level software engineeringHardware engineeringSystem simulationsCustom ML hardwareFirmware developmentMultiprocessingPerformance profilingPythonBazelGitCommunication skillsCollaboration skills

Required

Proficiency in C/C++

Strong understanding of low-level software engineering

Strong understanding of hardware engineering

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Preferred

Experience developing hardware or system simulations (e.g., SystemC, gem5, QEMU, or custom frameworks)

Experience with custom ML hardware accelerators (e.g., Google TPU)

Experience with firmware, kernel and driver development (e.g., Linux, FreeRTOS)

Experience with hardware development and verification

Experience with multiprocessing and multithreading

Familiarity with bit-accurate numerics modeling

Experience with performance profiling and optimization of simulation code

Proficiency with Python for test harness development, bazel, and git

Benefits

Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with generous premium coverage

Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office

Daily lunch and dinner in our office

Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)

Company

Etched

Building the hardware for superintelligence

Founded in 2022

Cupertino, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.etched.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (9)

2024 (11)

2023 (1)

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Total Funding

$625.36M

Key Investors

StripesPrimary Venture Partners

2026-01-14Series Unknown· $500M

2024-06-25Series A· $120M

2023-05-16Seed· $5.36M

Leadership Team

Chris Zhu

Co-Founder

Robert Wachen

Co-Founder and President

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