Chip Simulation Software Engineer
Etched · San Jose
About this role
## Chip Simulation Software Engineer ### About Etched Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads. Our first products are heavily focused on inference, backed by hundreds of millions from top-tier investors. ### Job Summary We’re seeking highly motivated, detail-oriented software engineers to join our **chip simulation team**. You’ll help enable hardware-software co-design by building simulations of our custom hardware—supporting early development of the full software stack. ### Key Responsibilities - Design, develop, and maintain simulations of our hardware - Ensure high accuracy, efficient debugging, and optimal performance - Influence architectural decisions through review and co-design - Create and maintain test plans and work with hardware teams to validate documentation - Build tools to debug simulations and enable developers to debug software running on the simulator ### You May Be a Good Fit If You Have - Proficiency in **C/C++** - Strong understanding of **low-level software engineering** - Strong 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** ### Representative Projects - Implement a simulation of our on-chip modules - Integrate simulated chips with simulated hosts (QEMU), enabling kernel driver development and host software testing - Integrate multiple simulated chips to validate multi-chip scale-out and scale-up approaches - Work closely with software teams in debugging early software deliverables ### Benefits - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage - **$500/month** credit for waiving medical benefits - **$2k/month** housing subsidy (for those living within walking distance of the office) - Relocation support for those moving to **San Jose (Santana Row)** - Wellness benefits (fitness, mental health, and more) - Daily lunch + dinner in our office - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification ### How We’re Different Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We’re a **fully in-person** team in **San Jose (Santana Row)** and value engineering skills. We don’t separate engineering and research—our technical staff contributes across disciplines as needed.
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