Front-End Power Engineer
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Etchedai · Cupertino, CAFull-timeOn-site3mo ago
PerlPythonTransformersVerilog
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Responsibilities
- Optimize RTL designs to boost power efficiency while meeting performance and area objectives.
- Perform power analysis throughout various stages of silicon design, applying power-saving strategies in RTL such as clock gating, power gating, multi-voltage domains, and dynamic voltage scaling.
- Conduct power estimation and evaluate PPA trade-offs for both new and existing design features.
- Collaborate closely with the physical design team to ensure power targets are met during the synthesis, place-and-route (P&R), and sign-off phases.
- Create precise power models from RTL simulations and gate-level netlists, and perform power roll-up analysis to estimate chip-level power consumption under different conditions.
- You may be a good fit if you have
- Experience in RTL development using Verilog/SystemVerilog, with a focus on low-power RTL design and optimization for complex digital systems.
- In-depth knowledge and experience in implementing low-power techniques like clock gating, power gating, and dynamic voltage/frequency scaling (DVFS).
- Familiarity with synthesis and place-and-route processes with an emphasis on optimizing for power.
- Strong candidates may also have experience with
- UPF/CPF power intent specifications.
- Power analysis tools such as Synopsys PrimePower, Cadence Joules, or similar.
- Automation of power analysis and optimization workflows using scripting languages (Tcl, Perl, Python).
Benefits
Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with 100% of premium coveredHousing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the officeDaily lunch and dinner in our officeRelocation support for those moving to CupertinoHow we're differentWe are a fully in-person team in Cupertino, and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.Dental insuranceVision insurance
Additional Information
About Etched Etched is building AI chips that are hard-coded for individual model architectures. Our first product (Sohu) only supports transformers, but has an order of magnitude more throughput and lower 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.
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