DV Intern

Job Summary

As a Design Verification intern, 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. We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

• Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.
• Familiarity with high-speed digital logic
• Exposure to ASIC or SoC design concepts
• Familiarity with SystemVerilog, UVM, or Python
• Familiarity with verification work and writing test benches
• Familiarity with physical design flows and tooling
• Are able to learn quickly about transformers and other aspects of modern artificial intelligence

Strong candidates may also have experience with

• Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures
• UVM or formal verification experience
• Ability to program with Python or another scripting language

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.

Program details

• 12-week paid internship
• Generous housing support for those relocating
• Daily lunch and dinner in our office
• Based at our office in San Jose, CA
• Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers
• Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time

• How we’re different
• Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.
• We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), 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 and work across disciplines as needed.