Etched designs custom inference accelerators and builds them into rack-scale clusters, spanning chip design through physical manufacturing. Its stack pairs full EDA tooling (Cadence Innovus, Synopsys Fusion Compiler, PrimeTime, Calibre) with MES, Teamcenter, Mastercam and SolidWorks, a sign it owns hardware production in-house. Hiring is accelerating and senior-engineering-heavy, with Workiva and OCI adoption pointing to maturing finance reporting and cloud infrastructure.
Notable leadership hires: Repair Lead
Etched is a privately held hardware company founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with 51–200 employees. It builds frontier-scale inference clusters around a custom PCIe-based accelerator for data center deployment. Engineering work covers silicon physical design, signoff, PCIe, Ethernet and CPU IP subsystems, power delivery and thermal design. The company also runs manufacturing, repair and logistics functions, and hires in the United States and Taiwan.
Etched uses chip design tools like Cadence Innovus, Synopsys Fusion Compiler, PrimeTime and Calibre, scripting in Python, Tcl and Perl, plus NetSuite, Rippling, Jira, Teamcenter and SolidWorks.
Etched is headquartered in San Jose, California, and hires in both the United States and Taiwan.
Etched is focused on new silicon bring-up, PCIe, Ethernet and CPU IP subsystems, VRM modeling, data center thermal management, and performance counter data collection for its custom accelerator.
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