# Silicon Validation Engineer, Software at Etched

- Company: Etched
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Jose
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: Engineering
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Skills: ASIC
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/82622c6f-9b8f-44d1-b8fc-2d4634f5abbf

## Description

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 skilled and motivated Silicon Validation Firmware Engineer to develop the firmware and low-level software that validates our AI/ML accelerator ASICs across their entire Lifecycle, from pre-silicon emulation and FPGA prototyping through post-silicon bring-up, characterization, and production ramp. In this role you will build the validation firmware, test content, and automation that prove our silicon works, and you will be hands-on debugging real hardware in the lab. Your work directly enables functional correctness, performance, and reliability of our cutting-edge products.



Key Responsibilities

 - Develop and own low-level validation firmware in C/C++ that runs across emulation and physical silicon, providing test content pre-silicon and reusing it to drive post-silicon bring-up.

 - Drive early bring-up of first silicon: boot, initialization, feature enablement, and debug of ASICs.

 - Perform deep-dive debug of silicon issues spanning firmware, RTL, electrical, protocol, and system levels; root-cause and resolve failures.

 - Build firmware infrastructure including hardware abstraction layers (HAL

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