Etched
AI inference systems
ChipSimulationSoftwareEngineer
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“Chip Simulation Software Engineer at Etched. Skills: Chip Simulation, Hardware-Software Co-design, C/C++, Python. Design, develop, and maintain simulations of our hardware. Ensuring high levels of accuracy, efficient debugging, and optimal performance”
What You'll Achieve.
delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200; build products that would be impossible with GPUs; redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest growing industry in history; deliver world-best performance; enabling early development of the full Sohu software stack; ensuring that our software and hardware teams are able to closely coordinate on their development paths; make sure that our simulations are accurate; ensure that software engineers are able to use them with a high level of productivity
Industry & Context.
fully in-person team
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Proficiency in C/C++, understanding of low-level software engineering, understanding of hardware engineering, Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Nice to Have
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
What You'll Do.
and maintain simulations of our hardware
Ensuring high levels of accuracy
and optimal performance
Create and maintain test plans
work with hardware teams to validate their documentation
Build tools to debug simulations
enable developers to debug software running on the simulator
and test simulations of our custom hardware systems
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
work closely with both hardware and software engineers; Cross-functional Collaboration and Troubleshooting; work closely with hardware teams; work closely with Sohu software teams
Communication Scope
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Full Job Description
About Etched Etched is building the world’s first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents. 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. Job Summary We are seeking highly motivated and detail-oriented software engineers to join our chip simulation team. We’re building Sohu, the world’s first transformer ASIC that leverages tight hardware-software co-design to deliver world-best performance. The chip simulation team plays a key role in hardware-software co-design, enabling early development of the full Sohu software stack. As a software engineer on this team, you will design, develop, and test simulations of our custom hardware systems. You will be working at the cutting edge of hardware innovation, ensuring that our software and hardware teams are able to closely coordinate on their development paths. Key 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. You may be a good fit if you have - Proficiency in C/C++ - Strong understa
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