Compensation
$200,000 – $300,000/yr
Etched is hiring a Physical Design Engineer to own block-level and subsystem physical design from synthesis through GDSII sign-off, including floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, timing closure, sign-off, and PPA optimization. The role collaborates with RTL designers, manages outsourced physical design work, and contributes to the RTL-to-GDSII flow. It is based in the Austin office with regular collaboration in San Jose.
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AI hardware11-50
Etched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters, co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing methods for frontier models. Etched says it has co-designed with leading AI companies, cloud providers, and hyperscalers, and tested racks in representative data center deployments. The company says its first racks ship this summer and production has started to fulfill over $1B in customer contracts.