Head of SoC Architecture

Job description

About Etched Etched is building the world’s first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents. 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 hiring a Head of SoC Architecture to lead our architecture team driving Etched’s next-generation AI inference systems. This is not an incremental optimization role. You will own the end-to-end architectural direction for transformer-specific silicon, from high-level workload modeling and dataflow strategy to subsystem definition and SoC integration tradeoffs. You will set the standard for architectural rigor, performance modeling, and long-term technical differentiation. You will partner closely with ASIC, software, and system leadership to ensure our chips and full systems deliver step-function improvements in perf...