Design Verification Engineer - SoC

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 and staffed by leading engineers, Etched is redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest growing industry in history. Job Summary We are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Systems/Performance Verification team. You will ensure the custom IPs powering our chips — including systolic arrays, DMA engines, and NoCs — are robust, high-performance, and silicon-ready. This role demands creativity, deep technical ability, and the drive to tackle complex verification challenges. You will collaborate with architects, RTL designers, and SW/FW/emulation teams to validate correctness and performance across the full hardware-software stack. Key responsibilities - Work closely with architects and RTL designers on verifying the performance features of the design and correlating with performance models (both pre-silicon and post-silicon). - Work closely with software and application developers on identifying performance bottlenecks and tuning the software. - Develop test plans and test infrastructure/tools for performance tuning, correlation, and verification. - Improve and maintain the architectural performance models. - Develop tests in SystemVerilog, Python, or vectors to debug and correlate the RTL and performance model.