Physical Design Intern at Etched

Department: ASIC

Setup: On-site
Location: San Jose, California
Type: Internship
Level: intern
Posted: May 19, 2026

Description

Etched is hiring a Physical Design intern to realize front-end designs in silicon, develop and run physical design flows, synthesize blocks, automate final design checks, and advise RTL design decisions. The role is available for Fall 2026, Spring 2027, and Summer 2027, is a 12-week paid internship based in San Jose, California, and includes housing support and daily meals. Candidates should be pursuing a degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field and have familiarity with high-speed digital logic, ASIC or SoC design, SystemVerilog, UVM, Python, verification, and physical design flows.

Required Skills

High-speed digital logic
ASIC/SoC design
SystemVerilog
UVM
Python
Physical design flows
Test benches

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Progress toward a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field
Required Previous Experiences: Familiarity with high-speed digital logic
Exposure to ASIC or SoC design concepts
Familiarity with SystemVerilog, UVM, or Python
Familiarity with verification work and writing test benches
Familiarity with physical design flows and tooling
Preferred Qualifications: Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures
Familiarity with numerical representations and functions in RTL
Familiarity with clocking and reset schemes in RTL and physical design
UVM or formal verification experience
Ability to program with Python or another scripting language

About Etched

Etched

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.

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