
By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we’re creating the world’s most powerful servers for transformer inference.

By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we’re creating the world’s most powerful servers for transformer inference.
Product: Sohu — transformer-optimized inference ASIC and server stack
Headquarters: Cupertino, California, United States
Founding timeframe: Circa 2022
Total reported funding: Approximately $625.4M (reported aggregate varies by source)
Notable investors: Includes Stripes, Peter Thiel, Primary Venture Partners, Two Sigma Ventures (reported participation)
Transformer-model inference performance and efficiency in AI hardware
2022
Computer Hardware Manufacturing
$5.4M
Reported seed round ~ $5.4M
$120M
Reported round bringing total raised to roughly $125M in some coverage; included participation from institutional and angel investors
$500M
Reported round valuing company at about $5B and bringing aggregate funding toward ~$1B in some reports
“Includes participation from Stripes, Peter Thiel, Primary Venture Partners, Two Sigma Ventures and other institutional and angel investors (reported)”
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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’re looking for a hands-on Teamcenter Developer who enjoys building and customizing systems that engineers rely on every day. You’ll primarily focus on development within our Siemens Teamcenter PLM environment—extending data models, building custom functionality, and improving the overall user experience—while also contributing to the day-to-day operation of our PLM and CAD ecosystem.
In this role, you’ll work across development and system operations: supporting deployments, debugging issues, and helping maintain stable environments across dev, test, and production. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure they can efficiently manage product data, BOMs, and change processes, while also contributing to integrations across internal systems and with external partners like suppliers and manufacturing.
You’ll also play a supporting role in areas like user access (roles and permissions), CAD tool coordination, and general system usability—stepping in where needed to keep things running smoothly without losing focus on development work.
This role is critical to scaling our PLM capabilities. By taking ownership of both development and targeted operational support, you’ll help improve engineering velocity, reduce friction in day-to-day workflows, and free up architecture and leadership to focus on higher-impact initiatives like automation and system design.
Key Responsibilities
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Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
$500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
Daily lunch and dinner in our office
How We’re Different Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models, and the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model-specific hardware. Larger and larger training runs encourage companies to consolidate around fewer model architectures, which creates a market for single-model ASICs.
We are a fully in-person team in San Jose and Taipei, 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 as needed.
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Help manage user roles, permissions, and access when needed
Collaborate with engineers, IT, and external partners to build scalable solutions and integrations
Contribute to improving system performance, usability, and engineering workflows
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