Applied AI Engineer, Silicon Engineering

What this role involves

Etched is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to embed with hardware teams and build LLM-based agent workflows to accelerate chip development. The role involves integrating AI tools into simulation, verification, and debugging flows, with success measured by team productivity gains. Candidates should have experience shipping real agentic systems and a strong evaluation-driven mindset.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• llm agents
• ai tooling
• systemverilog
• uvm
• dft
• physical design
• fpga
• emulation
• eda
• tcl
• fine-tuning
• rag
• multi-agent orchestration
• c++
• rust
• ci/cd

From the employer’s posting

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 f…