Performance Modeling Engineer
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.
Key responsibilities
Develop comprehensive performance models and projections for our architecture across varying workloads and configurations
Profile and analyze deep learning workloads on our hardware to identify micro-architectural bottlenecks and influence optimization opportunities
Drive hardware/software co-optimization by identifying where architectural features can unlock performance improvements
Run regressions and validate performance models against real systems and silicon
Inform next-generation architectural decisions by pathfinding across system and silicon options during design, proof-of-concept, and architecting phases
