{"jobs":[{"id":"7aeafe31-c2c6-43e0-bb31-01868dcfad39","title":"Design Verification Engineer - Internal IP","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-06-11T05:03:53.978+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/7aeafe31-c2c6-43e0-bb31-01868dcfad39","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/7aeafe31-c2c6-43e0-bb31-01868dcfad39/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Internal IP DV team. 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.

Key responsibilities

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Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Internal IP DV team. 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.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Develop and maintain UVM/SystemVerilog testbenches for high-performance IPs (compute arrays, DMAs, NoCs, memory subsystems).\n\n - Define and execute verification plans covering functional correctness, corner cases, concurrency, and performance bottlenecks.\n\n - Debug complex datapath and protocol issues in RTL and testbench environments.\n\n - Work closely with architects and designers to validate functionality and design intent.\n\n - Partner with SW, FW, and emulation teams to ensure end-to-end bring-up and debug coverage.\n\n - Contribute to reusable DV infrastructure, coverage models, and methodology improvements.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Proficiency with UVM and SystemVerilog.\n\n - Strong debugging and problem-solving skills for complex digital designs.\n\n - Solid knowledge of computer architecture and digital design fundamentals.\n\n - Hands-on experience verifying datapaths, memory systems, interconnects, or high-throughput fabrics.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Familiarity with SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) and formal verification techniques.\n\n - Experience verifying systolic arrays, DMA engines, or NoC/AXI protocols.\n\n - Scripting skills (Python/Perl/TCL or similar) for automation, debug and regression flows.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"1c03c13b-6f2e-44e7-b5bd-b7628412f8b9","title":"Infrastructure Software Engineer","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-20T04:05:35.637+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/1c03c13b-6f2e-44e7-b5bd-b7628412f8b9","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/1c03c13b-6f2e-44e7-b5bd-b7628412f8b9/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Building cutting-edge model-specific ASICs requires crafting custom infrastructure and toolchains to support ultra-fast, reliable, and scalable development across the stack - from simulation to silicon. We build this infrastructure as software - and we engineer it with the same best practices we apply to our products. We use the same rigor, design discipline, and quality standards and testing as we do to our ASIC, software, and platform.

You will lead the development and adoption of next-generation infrastructure tooling, enabling Etched ASIC, Software, and Platform engineers to iterate faster, build more reliably, and push the boundaries of AI performance. This includes building and scaling our hybrid high-performance compute (HPC) cluster, optimized for massively parallel CI, EDA workflows, Emulation, and hardware-aware job execution.

You’ll also architect and implement a state-of-the-art observability stack with LLM integration and a strong emphasis on streaming health and performance telemetry, log aggregation, distributed tracing, insight generation, synthetic testing, and smart alerting - across CI pipelines, simulation clusters, and service endpoints.

This role demands a strong software engineering mindset, quality instincts, and deep understanding of systems. It’s not just about writing scripts - it’s about writing code that builds and manages infrastructure with precision, repeatability, and intent.

Key responsibilities

Representative projects

You may be a good fit if you

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nBuilding cutting-edge model-specific ASICs requires crafting custom infrastructure and toolchains to support ultra-fast, reliable, and scalable development across the stack - from simulation to silicon. We build this infrastructure as software - and we engineer it with the same best practices we apply to our products. We use the same rigor, design discipline, and quality standards and testing as we do to our ASIC, software, and platform.\n\nYou will lead the development and adoption of next-generation infrastructure tooling, enabling Etched ASIC, Software, and Platform engineers to iterate faster, build more reliably, and push the boundaries of AI performance. This includes building and scaling our hybrid high-performance compute (HPC) cluster, optimized for massively parallel CI, EDA workflows, Emulation, and hardware-aware job execution.\n\nYou’ll also architect and implement a state-of-the-art observability stack with LLM integration and a strong emphasis on streaming health and performance telemetry, log aggregation, distributed tracing, insight generation, synthetic testing, and smart alerting - across CI pipelines, simulation clusters, and service endpoints.\n\nThis role demands a strong software engineering mindset, quality instincts, and deep understanding of systems. It’s not just about writing scripts - it’s about writing code that builds and manages infrastructure with precision, repeatability, and intent.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Design and build the orchestration layers that drive our hybrid high-performance clusters—enabling simulation, synthesis, and continuous integration of AI ASICs at unprecedented scale.\n\n - Develop and maintain a fully programmable infrastructure control plane to ensure reproducibility, auditability, and rapid iteration across the entire stack.\n\n - Create tools and abstractions that empower engineers to harness massive parallelism without worrying about the underlying complexity..\n\n - Prototype and execute workload orchestration and migration strategies between on-premise and cloud environments, balancing performance, storage availability and replication, uptime, and cost across heterogeneous hardware and compute backends.\n\n - Implement real-time telemetry, tracing systems that surface insights from millions of metrics, enabling proactive debugging and system optimization.\n\n - Build a full observability stack that includes dashboards, alerting, automated responses, and a synthetic testing framework to proactively test infrastructure performance and reliability for various application and data flows, ensuring we remain proactive against issues impacting development and productivity workflows.\n\n\n\nRepresentative projects\n\n - Design and deploy a fully automated, scalable hybrid HPC cluster, combining bare-metal servers and switches with cloud instances, provisioned through MaaS and orchestrated via SLURM and Kubernetes, optimized for mixed EDA workloads and parallel CI pipelines.\n\n - Develop a real-time observability system for ASIC toolchain jobs and distributed builds, integrating Prometheus, Grafana, and VictoriaMetrics with streaming telemetry, tracing, and alerting to detect performance regressions before they hit silicon.\n\n - Architect and implement a programmable infrastructure-as-code control plane, using Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet, to version, audit, and redeploy every layer of Etched's development stack with deterministic reproducibility.\n\n - Create a zero-downtime interactive development environment that provisions and connects Jupyter and VS Code sessions to GPUs and high-memory nodes via a secure zero-trust network, abstracting away cluster state and machine failures.\n\n - Prototype and evaluate dynamic workload migration strategies between on-premise and cloud environments to optimize for latency, reliability, and cost across simulation and synthesis pipelines.\n\n - Design a synthetic testing and fault injection framework to validate the behavior of infrastructure under high-load, degraded hardware, and intermittent network partitions - before they happen in production.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you\n\n - Are a systems-minded software engineer who loves building foundational platforms, working close to the metal and cloud, solving high-leverage problems at scale.\n\n - Are a deeply technical engineer who treats infrastructure as a software problem - prioritizing clean abstractions, version control,small change lists, easy roll backs, testing, and long-term maintainability over ad hoc configuration.\n\n - Have strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Go, Rust, and C++, and are comfortable building production-grade tooling.\n\n - Possess expert-level knowledge of Linux, virtualization, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines, with a deep understanding of how to debug, optimize, and scale complex systems.\n\n - Are familiar with Infrastructure as Code tools like OpenTofu, Ansible, or Puppet, and enjoy designing declarative, reproducible infrastructure systems.\n\n - Understand and use PromQL and other telemetry/query languages and have used LLM to extract insight from real-time metrics, and know how to architect and tune observability stacks.\n\n - Have a track record of debugging and resolving difficult hardware-software integration problems across bare-metal systems, networks, and distributed workloads.\n\n - Can lead and mentor technical teams, guiding design decisions and helping others develop sound engineering instincts.\n\n - Have 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems programming, or backend software development - ideally in environments where performance, scale, or hardware interaction mattered.\n\n - Are driven by curiosity, take initiative, and have an innate sense of ownership — you thrive in uncharted territory, design for edge cases, and love making systems more powerful, reliable, and elegant.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Familiarity with Bazel build system\n\n - Deep understanding of ASIC development flows, especially those involving Synopsys, Cadence, and Verilator, including how EDA tools interact with infrastructure for simulation, synthesis, and verification.\n\n - Hands-on experience architecting systems with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including hybrid on-prem/cloud deployments, workload migration strategies, and cloud-native orchestration tooling.\n\n - Experience monitoring, provisioning, and debugging bare-metal servers, network hardware, and high-performance storage systems in rack-scale environments.\n\n - Comfortable in profiling and optimizing compute environments for single-threaded latency, memory-bound workloads, or I/O throughput, especially in the context of simulation or CI performance.\n\n - Proficiency building or operating telemetry systems at scale using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, VictoriaMetrics, and tools for distributed tracing, log aggregation, and real-time alerting across heterogeneous mediums (SMS, email, push alerts, etc.)\n \n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"39cb22b6-58e9-4612-994f-eba767aca818","title":"Technical Recruiter (Supercomputing/ML)","department":"People","team":"People","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-18T23:44:16.301+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/39cb22b6-58e9-4612-994f-eba767aca818","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/39cb22b6-58e9-4612-994f-eba767aca818/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

As we scale, we’re looking for a Technical Recruiter (Supercomputing/ML) to build and own some of the most high-leverage, relationship-driven parts of our recruiting function. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-talent-density environments and loves the hunt.

 

What You’ll Do

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

 

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs we scale, we’re looking for a Technical Recruiter (Supercomputing/ML) to build and own some of the most high-leverage, relationship-driven parts of our recruiting function. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-talent-density environments and loves the hunt.\n\n \n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\n - Own the full-cycle recruiting process, from sourcing through offer, ensuring top-of-funnel quality and fast, high-signal decision-making\n\n - Build strong partnerships with hiring managers and advocate for both candidates and company needs\n\n - Source candidates in unconventional places - e.g., GitHub repos, preprint authors on arXiv, contributors to Apache mailing lists, or insightful Twitter threads\n\n - Facilitate structured interview loops, track candidate performance, and lead debriefs alongside hiring managers and leadership\n\n - Manage offers and close processes in collaboration with hiring managers and leaders\n\n - Continuously improve our recruiting systems, workflows, and candidate experience\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Have 5+ years of experience recruiting non-technical talent in highly competitive markets\n\n - Can evaluate both technical depth and cultural fit with nuance and clarity\n\n - Are resourceful in finding exceptional candidates beyond the obvious platforms\n\n - Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy building systems from scratch\n\n - Care deeply about candidate experience and operational excellence\n \n  \n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Familiarity with the AI, semiconductor, or hardware engineering talent landscape\n\n - A track record of hiring exceptional engineers in niche or emerging fields\n\n \n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n \n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"92862cf4-3fe6-4317-b771-8fcdf0a95758","title":"Physical Design Engineer","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-08-11T00:21:16.592+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/92862cf4-3fe6-4317-b771-8fcdf0a95758","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/92862cf4-3fe6-4317-b771-8fcdf0a95758/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Etched is looking for exceptional Physical Design engineers to join our team. In this role, you
will own block-level implementation and verification, drive timing closure and PPA optimization, supervise 3rd party design work, and help improve our design flows and iteration speed.


Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is looking for exceptional Physical Design engineers to join our team. In this role, you\nwill own block-level implementation and verification, drive timing closure and PPA optimization, supervise 3rd party design work, and help improve our design flows and iteration speed.\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Deeply understand what is involved in physical design\n\n - Running PD flows to close blocks, support ASIC infrastructure, automate PD flows,\n improve CAD infrastructure\n\n - Collaborate with RTL Designers and provide Physical Design feedback to improve PPA\n\n - Drive dashboards that show the convergence of projects related to PD\n\n - Optimize tool flows, working with EDA vendors to incorporate the latest features\n\n - Accountable for block level closure\n\n - Supervise the outsourcing of physical design to a 3rd party service\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 5-10+ years of previous experience with PD\n\n - Tools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off\n\n - Experience with back-end design and timing closure on advanced process nodes (5nm\n and below)\n\n - Experience with Cadence (Innovus, Genus) or Synopsys (ICC2, Fusion Compiler)\n automated RTL-to-GDSII flows\n\n - Experience with sign-off tools (PrimeTime, Tempus, Voltus, etc.)\n\n - Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology, power verification,synthesis, scan insertion/ATPG, formal verification, floorplanning, placement, CTS,\n routing, IR drop, and EM/antenna analysis\n\n - Deeply creative and able to think from first principles\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures\n\n - Ability to program with Python or another scripting language\n\n - Familiarity with AI tools for programming/coding\n\n - Startup experience or comfort working in fast-paced environments\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n \n \n\nHow we’re different:\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"ed7a1d2e-df45-4d35-8965-e989fbbc2ce9","title":"PCB Layout Engineer","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-06-11T05:20:14.801+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ed7a1d2e-df45-4d35-8965-e989fbbc2ce9","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ed7a1d2e-df45-4d35-8965-e989fbbc2ce9/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We’re seeking a skilled PCB Layout Engineer to join our dynamic team and contribute to our high-performance data center products. As a PCB Layout Engineer at Etched, you will play a crucial role in designing and optimizing printed circuit boards (PCBs) using Cadence Allegro PCB design tools. Your primary focus will be on high-speed signaling, including 100G applications, power distribution, large BGA ball-map breakouts and complex HDI PCB stack-ups for high-performance data center products. Your expertise will ensure that our products meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

You maybe a good fit if you

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

Benefits

 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe’re seeking a skilled PCB Layout Engineer to join our dynamic team and contribute to our high-performance data center products. As a PCB Layout Engineer at Etched, you will play a crucial role in designing and optimizing printed circuit boards (PCBs) using Cadence Allegro PCB design tools. Your primary focus will be on high-speed signaling, including 100G applications, power distribution, large BGA ball-map breakouts and complex HDI PCB stack-ups for high-performance data center products. Your expertise will ensure that our products meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and efficiency.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Lead the design and optimization of high-speed PCB layouts using Cadence Allegro, tailored for 100G signaling. Implement strategies for impedance matching, trace routing, and crosstalk mitigation, resulting in robust designs that meet the stringent performance demands of modern data centers.\n\n - Develop and implement power distribution networks for cutting-edge data center hardware. Design power planes, decoupling strategies, and thermal management solutions to support high-performance systems, ensuring reliability and efficiency under heavy operational loads.\n\n - Manage the design of complex High-Density Interconnect (HDI) PCB stack-ups for multi-layer boards. Integrate blind/buried vias and microvias to meet the advanced technological requirements of data center systems, enhancing signal integrity and achieving compact form factors.\n\n - Collaborate with electrical and mechanical engineering teams to integrate PCB designs within the overall system architecture. Provide key input during design reviews to optimize performance, ensure manufacturability, and align with system-level objectives in a data center environment.\n\n\n\nYou maybe a good fit if you\n\n - Have a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degrees or certifications are a plus.\n\n - Are equipped with 10 years of experience in PCB layout design with a focus on high-speed signaling, power distribution, and HDI stack-ups, ideally for high-performance data center products.\n\n - Demonstrate proficiency in Cadence Allegro PCB design tools\n\n - Command in-depth knowledge of high-speed digital design principles, including signal integrity and impedance control.\n\n - Have Experience with complex HDI PCB design and manufacturing processes.\n\n - Understand power distribution network design and thermal management techniques, particularly for data center applications.\n\n - Are excellent at problem-solving skills and attention to detail.\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\n How we’re different:\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"61860739-5aa9-4f64-920d-f4c1cca71af8","title":"Electrical Engineer, Hardware Systems","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-17T21:03:12.427+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/61860739-5aa9-4f64-920d-f4c1cca71af8","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/61860739-5aa9-4f64-920d-f4c1cca71af8/application","descriptionHtml":"

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

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

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

Benefits

Compensation Range

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Lead schematic design of the mezzanine card and base board for Etched’s accelerator systems\n\n - Work with Signal Integrity, PCB, and Mechanical Engineering to solve system level design problems\n\n - Collaborate with ODMs/OEMs on system requirements, including bringup and validation plans\n\n - Understand datacenter customer requirements and ensure our servers meet them\n\n - Bring up of system base board and mezzanine card\n\n - Create and manage PCBA documentation including BOMs and special assembly processes\n\n - Define test plans and test equipment for bring-up and manufacturing\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - 5-10 years of experience in complex server/switch system design and development\n\n - Extensive experience on 100G Ethernet, PCIe Gen5, I2C, SPI, UART interfaces\n\n - Familiar with modern AI/datacenter system architecture\n\n - Proven track record of designing systems alongside silicon\n\n - Deep understanding of datacenter needs, especially with respect to high power (>10 kW) AI servers\n\n - Passionate about modern AIs like ChatGPT, and willing to learn about them on the job\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nCompensation Range\n\n - $150,000 - $275,000 \n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"b065790b-3a5b-4bf2-b5d1-60253f57bf4f","title":"Mechanical Engineer","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-14T01:30:15.328+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/b065790b-3a5b-4bf2-b5d1-60253f57bf4f","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/b065790b-3a5b-4bf2-b5d1-60253f57bf4f/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Mechanical Engineer to join our team and help transform complex designs into reliable, high-power data center products. As a Mechanical Engineer at Etched, you will be integral to the development of high-performance data center products, from initial concept through to production. You will collaborate closely with both internal and external design engineers, including JDM (Joint Design Manufacturer) partners. Your expertise in mechanical design, particularly for data center chassis and high-power systems, will ensure our products meet rigorous performance, reliability, and manufacturability standards.

Key Responsibilities

You maybe a good fit if you have

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking an experienced Mechanical Engineer to join our team and help transform complex designs into reliable, high-power data center products. As a Mechanical Engineer at Etched, you will be integral to the development of high-performance data center products, from initial concept through to production. You will collaborate closely with both internal and external design engineers, including JDM (Joint Design Manufacturer) partners. Your expertise in mechanical design, particularly for data center chassis and high-power systems, will ensure our products meet rigorous performance, reliability, and manufacturability standards.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Develop and refine mechanical designs for high-power data center products, ensuring robust performance and reliability. Manage the transition from appearance models to production-ready designs.\n\n - Work closely with internal design teams and external partners, including Joint Design Manufacturers (JDMs), to ensure seamless integration of mechanical designs with overall product architecture.\n\n - Lead the design of data center chassis and enclosures from concept through production, focusing on meeting high power, cooling efficiency, and ruggedness requirements.\n\n - Oversee and manage the development of both soft and hard tooling to support mass production, ensuring that all tooling meets strict quality and consistency specifications.\n\n - Ensure that mechanical designs comply with manufacturing requirements, including shock and vibration standards, to guarantee durability and performance in demanding data center environments.\n\n - Translate industrial design concepts into manufacturable designs, effectively converting appearance models into production-ready mechanical solutions.\n\n - Apply DFM principles to optimize designs for cost-effective manufacturing, assembly, and maintenance, ensuring high efficiency and reduced production costs.\n\n\n\nYou maybe a good fit if you have\n\n - A Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field is essential. Advanced degrees or certifications in mechanical design or manufacturing are a plus.\n\n - A minimum of 10 years of experience in mechanical engineering with a focus on high-power data center products, including a proven track record in designing and managing chassis and enclosures for data centers, is required.\n\n - Strong expertise in mechanical design and engineering principles is necessary, along with hands-on experience in transforming industrial design concepts into production-ready models.\n\n - Extensive experience in data center chassis design, with a deep understanding of high-power and cooling requirements, is important.\n\n - Proficiency in mechanical CAD software and tools such as SolidWorks, Creo, FX, CATIA, or similar is required.\n\n - A deep understanding of tooling processes, including both soft and hard tooling, and their impact on product design and production, is critical.\n\n - Familiarity with manufacturing requirements and standards, including shock and vibration testing, is expected to ensure that designs are durable and meet industry expectations.\n\n - Excellent problem-solving skills and a keen attention to detail are essential to ensure that every aspect of design work is meticulously considered.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"db2b58a0-6e00-4b05-96ec-62045d8587e3","title":"ECAD Librarian","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-26T19:25:18.164+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/db2b58a0-6e00-4b05-96ec-62045d8587e3","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/db2b58a0-6e00-4b05-96ec-62045d8587e3/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced ECAD Librarian to manage and maintain our schematic symbol and PCB footprint libraries, ensuring our design teams work from accurate, consistent, and manufacturable component data.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have:

Benefits

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking an experienced ECAD Librarian to manage and maintain our schematic symbol and PCB footprint libraries, ensuring our design teams work from accurate, consistent, and manufacturable component data.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Develop, maintain, and organize the ECAD library of Allegro schematic symbols and PCB footprints, ensuring alignment with design team requirements and project specifications\n\n - Create and validate complex schematic symbols and PCB footprints in Allegro, ensuring compliance with IPC standards and company guidelines\n\n - Build and maintain complete component metadata, including part numbering, attributes, and datasheet linkage\n\n - Collaborate with the manufacturing team to adjust symbols and footprints as needed, ensuring compliance with design for manufacturability (DFM) requirements and alignment with JEDEC standards and industry guidelines\n\n - Partner with electrical engineers and layout designers to resolve library issues quickly and prevent errors from propagating into fabrication and assembly\n\n - Establish and enforce best practices for library version control, part approvals, and data integrity\n\n - Collaborate with component suppliers to obtain accurate technical data and ensure compatibility with design requirements\n\n - Perform detailed quality checks on symbols and footprints to guarantee design accuracy and reliability\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have:\n\n - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience\n\n - 5+ years of experience in ECAD library management, including creating Allegro schematic symbols and PCB footprints\n\n - Expertise in Allegro PCB Editor and related tools for symbol and footprint creation\n\n - Good understanding of Part Life Cycle, EOL parts, and RoHS/EU compliance\n\n - Strong understanding of IPC standards for PCB footprint creation, JEDEC package standards, and package dimensional tolerances\n\n - Experience working directly with manufacturing teams to adapt designs for optimal manufacturability and yield\n\n - Experience with version control systems for ECAD libraries, such as Git or PLM software\n\n - Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage complex libraries with a focus on accuracy and efficiency\n\n - Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally with electrical and manufacturing teams\n\n - Experience with scripting languages (e.g., SKILL for Allegro) to automate library management tasks\n\n - Knowledge of BOM management and integration with ECAD libraries\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\n\nWe 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."},{"id":"ccf2ae62-5490-4a59-87e8-8761f573b22a","title":"Hardware Validation Engineer","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-02-03T00:57:02.739+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ccf2ae62-5490-4a59-87e8-8761f573b22a","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ccf2ae62-5490-4a59-87e8-8761f573b22a/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Hardware Validation Engineer to validate system hardware and printed circuit board (PCB) functionality and ensure robust power and signal margins across all interfaces. In this role, you will collect and analyze lab data to validate hardware performance, support post-silicon characterization, and ensure reliable operation across multiple subsystems, including PCIe and I2C.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Benefits

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 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.

 

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\nWe are seeking an experienced and motivated Hardware Validation Engineer to validate system hardware and printed circuit board (PCB) functionality and ensure robust power and signal margins across all interfaces. In this role, you will collect and analyze lab data to validate hardware performance, support post-silicon characterization, and ensure reliable operation across multiple subsystems, including PCIe and I2C.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Perform system hardware and PCB functional verification to ensure all features meet design specifications, including validation of power and signal integrity margins\n\n - Collect and analyze lab data to verify power delivery, signal integrity, and overall system robustness\n\n - Support post-silicon validation by identifying key performance metrics and conducting PVT, power, and thermal characterization\n\n - Evaluate PCIe performance, including signal integrity, eye opening measurements (EOM), and bit error rate (BER), to ensure adequate operating margins\n\n - Identify hardware issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive issues to resolution in collaboration with cross-functional teams\n\n - Design and execute DOE experiments to debug hardware issues and optimize system performance\n\n - Validate power sequencing, microcontroller functionality, and conduct power efficiency, noise, and transient analysis\n\n - Perform detailed characterization of I2C bus systems to ensure compliance with design requirements\n\n - Track and document PCB issues and validation results, ensuring clear communication with relevant stakeholders\n\n - Collaborate closely with design, firmware, and system engineering teams to ensure end-to-end hardware quality\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field\n\n - Proven experience with hardware validation, lab testing, and PCB-level debugging\n\n - Strong understanding of power integrity and signal integrity principles and measurement techniques\n\n - Familiarity with PCIe, I2C, and other common hardware interfaces and protocols\n\n - Experience using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and power supplies\n\n - Hands-on experience debugging hardware issues and performing root cause analysis\n\n - Knowledge of power sequencing and microcontroller-based systems\n\n - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience with scripting languages such as Python or Matlab\n\n - Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\nWe 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.\n\n "},{"id":"610c3836-9798-46ea-931a-02bb95b29467","title":"Software Engineer – Performance Profiling","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-18T19:16:32.593+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/610c3836-9798-46ea-931a-02bb95b29467","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/610c3836-9798-46ea-931a-02bb95b29467/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Join our team and take the lead in illuminating the performance landscape of our cutting-edge ML accelerator. We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to design and develop a sophisticated performance analysis tool, tailored specifically for our hardware. You will be instrumental in creating the essential tooling that enables our ML engineers and customers to understand workload behavior, identify performance bottlenecks, and unlock the full potential of our hardware, accelerating the most demanding ML applications in the world. This is a unique opportunity to shape performance analysis for novel hardware from the ground up.

Key responsibilities

Representative projects

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nJoin our team and take the lead in illuminating the performance landscape of our cutting-edge ML accelerator. We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to design and develop a sophisticated performance analysis tool, tailored specifically for our hardware. You will be instrumental in creating the essential tooling that enables our ML engineers and customers to understand workload behavior, identify performance bottlenecks, and unlock the full potential of our hardware, accelerating the most demanding ML applications in the world. This is a unique opportunity to shape performance analysis for novel hardware from the ground up.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Lead the design and architecture of a comprehensive performance analysis suite, including data collection mechanisms, data processing pipelines, analysis engines, and user interfaces (CLI and/or GUI).\n\n - Develop robust methods to capture performance data directly from our custom ML accelerator hardware (e.g., hardware performance counters, execution unit status, memory access patterns) via driver interfaces or other mechanisms.\n\n - Implement tracing for host-side API calls (runtime libraries, driver interactions) and system-level events (CPU activity, PCIe traffic, memory usage, network contention) related to our workloads.\n\n - Design and implement techniques to accurately correlate performance events across the host CPU, device driver, PCIe bus, multiple accelerators, and multiple hosts, ensuring precise time synchronization.\n\n - Build analysis modules to automatically interpret collected trace and counter data, identifying key performance limiters (e.g., compute-bound, memory bandwidth-bound, latency-bound, PCIe-bound, specific hardware bottlenecks).\n\n - Develop intuitive visualizations (timelines, dependency graphs, resource utilization charts, statistical summaries) to clearly communicate performance characteristics and bottlenecks to users.\n\n - Work closely with hardware architects, firmware engineers, driver developers, compiler engineers, and ML application engineers to understand their needs, define tool requirements, and provide expert guidance on performance analysis and optimization using the tool.\n\n\n\nRepresentative projects\n\n - Architect and implement the core data collection framework for hardware performance counters on a custom PCIe-based accelerator.\n\n - Develop a kernel driver module or user-space service for low-overhead tracing of accelerator activity.\n\n - Design and build a correlated timeline view visualizing CPU API calls, driver submissions, PCIe transfers, and accelerator execution units.\n\n - Create an analysis pass to detect and quantify memory access inefficiencies or PCIe bandwidth saturation while transacting on a PCIe-attached accelerator.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Strong proficiency in C++ or Rust\n\n - Proficiency in Python is a plus\n\n - Deep understanding of computer architecture (CPU, GPU, accelerators), memory hierarchies (caches, DRAM), and interconnects (especially PCIe).\n\n - Proven experience in low-level performance analysis, profiling, and bottleneck identification on complex hardware systems (GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, or custom accelerators).\n\n - Experience with performance analysis tools (e.g., NVIDIA Nsight, AMD uProf, Intel VTune, perf, Tracy, ETW).\n\n - Experience working close to hardware, potentially reading performance counters or interacting directly with device drivers.\n \n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Direct experience developing performance analysis or debugging tools.\n\n - Experience with ML accelerator architectures (GPUs, TPUs, etc.).\n\n - Experience with kernel-mode driver development (Linux or Windows).\n\n - Understanding of compiler internals, code generation, and optimization.\n\n - In-depth knowledge of the PCIe protocol and analysis tools (PCIe analyzers).\n\n - Experience with multi-chip or multi-host accelerator systems (e.g., TPU pods, or NVidia DGX clusters)\n\n - Experience with firmware or embedded systems development.\n\n - Experience with hardware description languages (Verilog, VHDL) or hardware verification.\n \n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"fb76e6e8-d07a-4830-b88e-ca8c1483f801","title":"Head of Supercomputing","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-26T07:34:12.952+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/fb76e6e8-d07a-4830-b88e-ca8c1483f801","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/fb76e6e8-d07a-4830-b88e-ca8c1483f801/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Etched is building at-scale AI inference supercomputers powered by our chips, and the Supercomputing organization is responsible for making them real, deployable, and reliable.

We are seeking a Head of Supercomputing to define and lead the architecture, software stack, and operational model for Etched’s cluster-scale AI compute systems. This leader will own the end-to-end system software and control-plane strategy — spanning orchestration, telemetry, provisioning, networking, and fleet reliability — from first silicon through production deployment.

This role combines deep systems expertise with strong organizational leadership. You will build and lead a world-class team, partnering closely with ASIC, hardware, kernel, runtime, and infrastructure teams to deliver the highest-performance AI inference systems in the world.

Key Responsibilities

Must-Have Skills and Experience

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT ETCHED\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is building at-scale AI inference supercomputers powered by our chips, and the Supercomputing organization is responsible for making them real, deployable, and reliable.\n\nWe are seeking a Head of Supercomputing to define and lead the architecture, software stack, and operational model for Etched’s cluster-scale AI compute systems. This leader will own the end-to-end system software and control-plane strategy — spanning orchestration, telemetry, provisioning, networking, and fleet reliability — from first silicon through production deployment.\n\nThis role combines deep systems expertise with strong organizational leadership. You will build and lead a world-class team, partnering closely with ASIC, hardware, kernel, runtime, and infrastructure teams to deliver the highest-performance AI inference systems in the world.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for Etched’s Supercomputing software stack, from node bring-up to multi-rack clusters\n\n - Build, scale, and lead a high-performance Supercomputing organization\n\n - Directly manage and develop 15+ engineers with a variety of experience levels\n\n - Architect and own low-level control-plane software for system bring-up, provisioning, networking, configuration, and fleet management\n\n - Define orchestration primitives for managing devices, nodes, racks, and full cluster deployments\n\n - Oversee development of system services that interface directly with firmware, drivers, kernel subsystems, and runtime layers\n\n - Establish system telemetry and observability infrastructure for customers\n\n - Own the system software lifecycle from first silicon bring-up through stable production releases\n\n - Collaborate with manufacturing and test engineering to integrate diagnostics and system software into factory environments\n\n - Define reliability targets, operational metrics, and release processes for production deployments\n\n - Recruit, mentor, and retain exceptional systems engineers and engineering leaders\n\n - Act as a senior technical voice shaping company-wide infrastructure decisions\n\nMust-Have Skills and Experience\n\n - 15+ years of experience in system software, infrastructure, or large-scale compute systems, including 5+ years leading engineering teams\n\n - Strong understanding of hardware/software interfaces such as PCIe, RDMA, memory hierarchies, interrupts, and device drivers\n\n - Experience building or operating cluster-scale systems (HPC, AI infrastructure, hyperscale compute, or custom accelerators)\n\n - Proven track record of delivering complex systems from early bring-up through production\n\n - Strong debugging skills across hardware–software interactions\n\n - Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n \n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"c3ca158a-015d-413d-bd14-5470e546ed15","title":"RTL Design Engineer ","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-06-11T05:18:50.678+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/c3ca158a-015d-413d-bd14-5470e546ed15","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/c3ca158a-015d-413d-bd14-5470e546ed15/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

As an RTL Engineer at Etched, you will be critical in ensuring that our AI chips operate correctly and efficiently. You will develop and implement design verification strategies for both our existing and upcoming ASIC designs.

In this role, you will work closely with state-of-the-art architectures for machine learning. You do not need to have experience working with these yet, but you will be willing and able to learn quickly. You will work in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy, and be responsible for a key part of Etched’s success.

Representative projects

You may be a good fit if you

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

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

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs an RTL Engineer at Etched, you will be critical in ensuring that our AI chips operate correctly and efficiently. You will develop and implement design verification strategies for both our existing and upcoming ASIC designs.\n\nIn this role, you will work closely with state-of-the-art architectures for machine learning. You do not need to have experience working with these yet, but you will be willing and able to learn quickly. You will work in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy, and be responsible for a key part of Etched’s success.\n\n\n\nRepresentative projects\n\n - Implement a block to efficiently compute floating point math operators\n\n - Provide feedback to the uArch team to make sure blocks meet timing and area constraints\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you\n\n - At least 5 years of work experience in RTL development.\n\n - Experience with high-speed digital logic.\n\n - Proficiency in standard RTL design and synthesis tools\n\n - Familiarity with verification work and writing test benches\n\n - Are able to learn quickly about transformers and other aspects of modern artificial intelligence\n\n - Willing to start quickly\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience with PCIe, Ethernet, or HBM technologies\n\n - Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures.\n\n - Familiarity with numerical representations and functions\n\n - Ability to program with Python or another scripting language\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different:\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"479b68f3-ab66-4534-a3ee-4c3b57312f1a","title":"Recruiter (G&A/GTM)","department":"People","team":"People","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-18T23:34:03.862+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/479b68f3-ab66-4534-a3ee-4c3b57312f1a","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/479b68f3-ab66-4534-a3ee-4c3b57312f1a/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

As we scale, we’re looking for a Technical Recruiter (G&A/GTM) to build and own some of the most high-leverage, relationship-driven parts of our recruiting function. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-talent-density environments and loves the hunt.

 

What You’ll Do

 

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs we scale, we’re looking for a Technical Recruiter (G&A/GTM) to build and own some of the most high-leverage, relationship-driven parts of our recruiting function. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-talent-density environments and loves the hunt.\n\n \n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\n - Own the full-cycle recruiting process, from sourcing through offer, ensuring top-of-funnel quality and fast, high-signal decision-making\n\n - Build strong partnerships with hiring managers and advocate for both candidates and company needs\n\n - Source candidates in unconventional places - e.g., GitHub repos, preprint authors on arXiv, contributors to Apache mailing lists, or insightful Twitter threads\n\n - Facilitate structured interview loops, track candidate performance, and lead debriefs alongside hiring managers and leadership\n\n - Manage offers and close processes in collaboration with hiring managers and leaders\n\n - Continuously improve our recruiting systems, workflows, and candidate experience\n\n \n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Have 5+ years of experience recruiting non-technical talent in highly competitive markets\n\n - Can evaluate both technical depth and cultural fit with nuance and clarity\n\n - Are resourceful in finding exceptional candidates beyond the obvious platforms\n\n - Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy building systems from scratch\n\n - Care deeply about candidate experience and operational excellence\n \n  \n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Familiarity with the AI, semiconductor, or hardware engineering talent landscape\n\n - A track record of hiring exceptional engineers in niche or emerging fields\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n \n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"9c58d97b-4825-466b-895a-478a89d7a3c7","title":"Technical Recruiter","department":"People","team":"People","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-07-12T01:15:03.051+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/9c58d97b-4825-466b-895a-478a89d7a3c7","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/9c58d97b-4825-466b-895a-478a89d7a3c7/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

As we scale, we’re looking for a Technical Recruiter to build and own some of the most high-leverage, relationship-driven parts of our recruiting function. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-talent-density environments and loves the hunt.

What You’ll Do

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs we scale, we’re looking for a Technical Recruiter to build and own some of the most high-leverage, relationship-driven parts of our recruiting function. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-talent-density environments and loves the hunt.\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Do\n\n - Own the full-cycle recruiting process, from sourcing through offer, ensuring top-of-funnel quality and fast, high-signal decision-making\n\n - Build strong partnerships with hiring managers and advocate for both candidates and company needs\n\n - Source candidates in unconventional places - e.g., GitHub repos, preprint authors on arXiv, contributors to Apache mailing lists, or insightful Twitter threads\n\n - Facilitate structured interview loops, track candidate performance, and lead debriefs alongside hiring managers and leadership\n\n - Manage offers and close processes in collaboration with hiring managers and the CEO\n\n - Continuously improve our recruiting systems, workflows, and candidate experience\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Have 5+ years of experience recruiting technical talent in highly competitive markets\n\n - Can evaluate both technical depth and cultural fit with nuance and clarity\n\n - Are resourceful in finding exceptional candidates beyond the obvious platforms\n\n - Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy building systems from scratch\n\n - Care deeply about candidate experience and operational excellence\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Familiarity with the AI, semiconductor, or hardware engineering talent landscape\n\n - A track record of hiring exceptional engineers in niche or emerging fields\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n \n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"283c88a9-0031-4232-a5b3-1103c2af4100","title":"Kernel Driver Software Engineer","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-14T01:19:01.346+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/283c88a9-0031-4232-a5b3-1103c2af4100","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/283c88a9-0031-4232-a5b3-1103c2af4100/application","descriptionHtml":"

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

Representative Projects

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Design, develop, and maintain kernel-mode drivers ensuring high reliability, informative debug, and optimal performance.\n\n - Analyze and optimize driver performance for demanding AI workloads, focusing on minimizing latency and maximizing throughput.\n\n - Collaborate closely with hardware engineers throughout the ASIC design process..\n\n - Implement driver support for device virtualization technologies, including SR-IOV, VFIO, and para-virtualization.\n\n - Implement efficient memory management strategies considering kernel memory mapping, page tables configuration, NUMA awareness for device data caching, and IOMMU configuration.\n\n - Build kernel drivers fundamentally designed to support and maintain security across host processes, physical memory spaces, and device attestation. \n\n - Diagnose and resolve complex driver-related issues, using common kernel debugging tools and techniques (ftrace, dmesg, etc.) to identify and fix bugs.\n\n - Design and implement synchronization mechanisms to handle concurrent access to  multiple accelerators.\n\n - Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate driver functionality, stability, and performance in manufacturing and in general production environments.\n\n - Collaborate with software and hardware teams to diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues.\n\n\n\nRepresentative Projects\n\n - Develop and optimize kernel-mode drivers for new ML accelerators.\n\n - Implement and optimize memory management, including kernel memory mapping and IOMMU configurations, for high-bandwidth data transfers.\n\n - Debug and resolve complex driver-related issues impacting ML workload performance.\n\n - Develop performance benchmarks and profiling tools to analyze driver performance.\n\n - Integrate driver support for advanced features like hardware virtualization and security, including SR-IOV and VFIO.\n\n - Optimizing PCIe communication between the host and PCIe devices, using advanced equipment like PCIe analyzers.\n\n - Implement and debug power management features for PCIe devices.\n\n - Integrating ML accelerators into containerized and virtualized environments.\n\n - Implementing and optimizing para-virtualization techniques for PCIe devices.\n\n - Configure and optimize page tables for efficient memory access from the ML accelerator.\n\n - Participate in hardware-software co-design reviews across teams to optimize performance and power efficiency.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Proficiency in C/C++.\n\n - Strong understanding of kernel-mode driver development and debugging.\n\n - Deep understanding of operating system internals (Linux preferred).\n\n - Experience with hardware/software interfacing and device drivers.\n\n - Experience with memory management and synchronization in kernel environments.\n\n - Strong understanding of PCIe and other hardware interfaces.\n\n - Experience with device virtualization technologies, including SR-IOV and VFIO.\n\n - Strong understanding of kernel memory mapping, page table configuration, and IOMMU.\n\n - Familiarity with hardware-software co-design principles.\n\n - Proven ability to analyze complex technical problems and provide effective solutions.\n\n - Excellent communication and collaboration 1 skills.   \n\n - Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).\n\n - Experience with debugging tools (e.g., gdb, kgdb).\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Candidates with experience in developing and debugging kernel-mode drivers for GPU or other accelerator devices.\n\n - Candidates with a strong understanding of hardware/software interactions.\n\n - Candidates with experience in optimizing driver performance for demanding workloads.\n\n - Candidates with experience in ML workloads.\n\n - Candidates who have debugged complex hardware and software interactions, especially in virtualized environments.\n\n - Candidates with experience in implementing and optimizing SR-IOV and VFIO.\n\n - Candidates with in-depth knowledge of kernel memory mapping, page tables, and IOMMU.\n\n - Candidates with experience in hardware-software co-design projects.\n\n - Experience with GPU driver development.\n\n - Experience with CUDA, OpenCL, or other GPU programming models.\n\n - Experience with performance profiling and benchmarking tools (perf, VTune).\n\n - Knowledge of hardware virtualization techniques, including para-virtualization.\n\n - Experience with CI/CD pipelines.\n\n - Experience with Rust.\n\n - Experience with ML frameworks like Tensorflow or Pytorch.\n\n - Experience with data center orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n \n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"5726311f-4db2-4c95-8628-d9c8f0f9639d","title":"Supercomputing Engineer","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-06-18T01:01:23.736+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/5726311f-4db2-4c95-8628-d9c8f0f9639d","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/5726311f-4db2-4c95-8628-d9c8f0f9639d/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.


Job Summary

Etched is building at-scale AI systems that will unlock faster, more efficient inference for billions of people, and the Supercomputing team is critical in enabling this mission. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Engineer to join our Supercomputing team to help build the foundational software that powers our cluster-scale AI compute deployments. This role on the core team involves the development, integration, and debugging of critical system components, including on control-plane software, system bring-up, telemetry, orchestration primitives, and performance tuning at the hardware–software boundary.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is building at-scale AI systems that will unlock faster, more efficient inference for billions of people, and the Supercomputing team is critical in enabling this mission. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Engineer to join our Supercomputing team to help build the foundational software that powers our cluster-scale AI compute deployments. This role on the core team involves the development, integration, and debugging of critical system components, including on control-plane software, system bring-up, telemetry, orchestration primitives, and performance tuning at the hardware–software boundary.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Architect and implement low-level control-plane software responsible for system bring-up, configuration, and management of cluster-scale AI compute deployments\n\n - Build system services that interact directly with hardware, firmware, and the operating system\n\n - Develop telemetry, logging, and tracing infrastructure for diagnosing failures and driving performance improvements\n\n - Implement orchestration primitives for managing devices, nodes, and racks\n\n - Profile and tune performance across PCIe, memory, networking, kernel, and runtime layers\n\n - Collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, kernel, and runtime teams to co-design system interfaces and behavior\n \n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Strong proficiency in C/C++ or Rust for low-level systems programming\n\n - Deep understanding of Linux internals, kernel/user-space boundaries, and system-level debugging\n\n - Experience working close to hardware: drivers, DMA, interrupts, memory management, or device control paths\n\n - Strong debugging skills using logs, tracing, and low-level observability tools\n\n - Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating across hardware and software teams\n \n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience with data center orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker\n\n - Experience with kernel development, device drivers, or firmware-adjacent software\n\n - Familiarity with PCIe, NUMA, networking, or high-speed interconnects\n\n - Experience with tracing and profiling tools such as perf, eBPF, ftrace, or custom instrumentation\n\n - Experience taking complex systems from early bring-up through stable operation\n\n - Background in HPC, AI infrastructure, or large-scale compute systems\n\n - Experience designing system test harnesses and failure-injection frameworks\n\n - Familiarity with Kubernetes or cluster orchestration at the node or control-plane level\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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.\n\n"},{"id":"ca25e600-e2e8-4111-b672-ee3a830a8ecf","title":"DFT (Design For Test) Engineer","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-02-28T00:41:40.753+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ca25e600-e2e8-4111-b672-ee3a830a8ecf","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ca25e600-e2e8-4111-b672-ee3a830a8ecf/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Design For Testability (DFT) Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the robust testability of integrated circuits (ICs) from the design phase through to production. This role is crucial in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our testing processes, thereby enhancing overall product quality.

Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Design For Testability (DFT) Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the robust testability of integrated circuits (ICs) from the design phase through to production. This role is crucial in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our testing processes, thereby enhancing overall product quality.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Develop and implement robust Design for Test (DFT) architectures for ASIC and SoC designs to enhance test coverage, debug capability, and fault isolation.\n\n - Integrate industry-standard DFT methodologies such as scan insertion, boundary scan, Built-In Self-Test (BIST), and Memory BIST (MBIST).\n\n - Collaborate cross-functionally with design and verification teams to ensure DFT requirements are addressed early and consistently throughout the design cycle.\n\n - Analyze test results and silicon debug data to provide design feedback and drive improvements in coverage, yield, and reliability.\n\n - Create and execute comprehensive DFT verification plans to validate the correct implementation and functionality of all DFT features.\n\n - Apply simulation-based and formal verification techniques to ensure high confidence in DFT logic correctness.\n\n - Conduct internal DFT audits and design reviews to proactively identify and resolve gaps in testability or coverage.\n\n - Support silicon bring-up, debug, and failure analysis during post-silicon validation to ensure successful product launch.\n\n - Partner with test engineering teams to develop and optimize Automated Test Equipment (ATE) programs for volume production.\n\n - Generate production-quality test patterns and ensure robust failure analysis capability in high-volume environments.\n\n - Collaborate with manufacturing and quality teams to implement data-driven test process improvements and monitor long-term product health.\n\n - Ensure test strategies are aligned with product milestones, manufacturing timelines, and quality/reliability targets.\n\n - Author and maintain detailed documentation for DFT architecture, test plans, procedures, and debug guides.\n\n - Share best practices through training sessions, onboarding, and mentorship to enhance DFT awareness across design and test teams.\n\n - Stay current with emerging DFT technologies, industry trends, and evolving standards to continually improve internal methodologies.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 10+ years of experience in DFT engineering with a track record of successful test implementations for ASIC or SoC products.\n\n - A deep understanding of digital design, verification methodologies, and DFT implementation practices.\n\n - Proficiency in System Verilog and fluency with industry-standard EDA tools (e.g., Synopsys DFT Compiler, Cadence Encounter Test, Mentor Tessent).\n\n - Scripting and automation experience using Python, Perl, or TCL to streamline DFT implementation and test processes.\n\n - Track record of leading DFT initiatives across multiple product generations in high-performance or high-volume silicon environments.\n\n - Strong analytical and debugging skills, with the ability to work across teams to resolve complex testability issues.\n\n - Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with a focus on clarity and cross-functional alignment.\n\n - A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (Master’s preferred).\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with \n\n - Mixed-signal DFT methodologies and integration of analog testability into SoC workflows.\n\n - Industry standards such as IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG), IEEE 1500, and experience applying them in complex designs.\n\n - Yield analysis, product engineering, and contributions to test cost reduction and quality improvement programs.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"3f83fd5f-5e50-403a-9a03-7ddb56502f49","title":"Developer Experience Engineer","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-02-19T19:59:13.460+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/3f83fd5f-5e50-403a-9a03-7ddb56502f49","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/3f83fd5f-5e50-403a-9a03-7ddb56502f49/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Developer Experience Engineer to enhance developer productivity, automation, and infrastructure across our hardware and software teams. You will work at the intersection of DevOps, software engineering, and high-performance computing (HPC), building systems that accelerate chip design, simulation, and AI model deployment in a cloud and on-prem hybrid environment.

Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are looking for a Developer Experience Engineer to enhance developer productivity, automation, and infrastructure across our hardware and software teams. You will work at the intersection of DevOps, software engineering, and high-performance computing (HPC), building systems that accelerate chip design, simulation, and AI model deployment in a cloud and on-prem hybrid environment.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Develop and maintain automation tools to streamline development, testing, and deployment workflows.\n\n - Optimize and manage Slurm-based job scheduling for AI workloads, simulation, and chip design workflows.\n\n - Build observability solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry for monitoring pipelines, infrastructure, and compute clusters.\n\n - Manage and optimize containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes to enhance scalability and reproducibility.\n\n - Enhance build, test, and deployment pipelines with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, or Bazel.\n\n - Develop caching and artifact management systems to reduce build times and improve dependency resolution.\n\n - Integrate and manage cloud resources (AWS, GCP) for scaling compute, storage, and hybrid workloads.\n\n - Support security and compliance efforts including secrets management and access control.\n\n - Document and share best practices for efficient developer tooling and workflows.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Strong Python skills for automation, scripting, and infrastructure development.\n\n - Experience with Slurm job scheduling in an HPC or hybrid environment.\n\n - Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.\n\n - Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes, including Helm charts and cluster management.\n\n - Proficiency in modern CI/CD pipeline management with tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Buildkite.\n\n - Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Ansible.\n\n - Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, compute, and storage optimization on AWS or GCP.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Data pipelining for AI/ML workflows using Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster.\n\n - Build system expertise with Bazel, CMake, or distributed build systems.\n\n - Secrets management tools such as Vault, SOPS, AWS Secrets Manager, or GCP Secret Manager.\n\n - AI/ML model training workflows and monitoring GPU-accelerated workloads.\n\n - Exposure to FPGA or ASIC development environments and workflows.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with generous premium coverage\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to West San Jose\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"0f9c0162-97c6-4be6-9cb7-d9afdcf0fa7c","title":"Inference Software Engineer","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-06-17T20:09:53.169+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/0f9c0162-97c6-4be6-9cb7-d9afdcf0fa7c","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/0f9c0162-97c6-4be6-9cb7-d9afdcf0fa7c/application","descriptionHtml":"

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

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Support porting state-of-the-art models to our architecture. Help build programming abstractions and testing capabilities to rapidly iterate on model porting.\n\n - Build, enhance, and scale our runtime, including multi-node inference, intra-node execution, state management, and robust error handling.\n\n - Optimize routing and communication layers using our collectives.\n\n - Utilize performance profiling and debugging tools to identify bottlenecks and correctness issues.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Proficiency in C++ or Rust.\n\n - Understanding of performance-sensitive or complex distributed software systems like Linux internals, accelerator architectures (e.g. GPUs, TPUs), Compilers, or high-speed interconnects (e.g. NVLink, InfiniBand).\n\n - Familiarity with PyTorch or JAX.\n\n - Ported applications to non-standard accelerator hardware or hardware platforms.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Developed low-latency, high-performance applications using both kernel-level and user-space networking stacks.\n\n - Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, algorithms, and challenges, including consensus protocols, consistency models, and communication patterns.\n\n - Solid grasp of Transformer architectures, particularly Mixture-of-Experts (MoE).\n\n - Built applications with extensive SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) optimizations for performance-critical paths.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"e6416d04-da00-4917-a817-787b77c35650","title":"Core Software Engineer","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-07-26T17:51:35.361+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/e6416d04-da00-4917-a817-787b77c35650","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/e6416d04-da00-4917-a817-787b77c35650/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Build the products that will power a majority of the world’s inference. The Core Engineering team is our special forces. This role works directly with our founders to identify critical gaps across the organization and build solutions 0 to 1, often in days not weeks, with immediate feedback loops. Your projects will vary widely: one week you might build internal infrastructure to unblock a hardware team, the next you might prototype a deployment for a customer or stand up a new tooling workflow.

This role is for engineers who thrive on ambiguity, move fast without sacrificing quality, and get energy from solving whatever problem matters most right now. It is a whiteboard for future founders – if you’re interested in shipping 0-1 production-level code every week, this role is for you.

This role requires not only exceptional full-stack engineering capabilities, but also deep product sense, personal accountability, and a knack for building from the ground up. At Etched, we’re developing our processes for scale, and we’re looking for engineers to deploy to our toughest challenges. The problems we solve are time-sensitive and business-critical. This role will not be a 9-5, and the ideal candidate is excited about that.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nBuild the products that will power a majority of the world’s inference. The Core Engineering team is our special forces. This role works directly with our founders to identify critical gaps across the organization and build solutions 0 to 1, often in days not weeks, with immediate feedback loops. Your projects will vary widely: one week you might build internal infrastructure to unblock a hardware team, the next you might prototype a deployment for a customer or stand up a new tooling workflow.\n\nThis role is for engineers who thrive on ambiguity, move fast without sacrificing quality, and get energy from solving whatever problem matters most right now. It is a whiteboard for future founders – if you’re interested in shipping 0-1 production-level code every week, this role is for you.\n\nThis role requires not only exceptional full-stack engineering capabilities, but also deep product sense, personal accountability, and a knack for building from the ground up. At Etched, we’re developing our processes for scale, and we’re looking for engineers to deploy to our toughest challenges. The problems we solve are time-sensitive and business-critical. This role will not be a 9-5, and the ideal candidate is excited about that.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Detect problems and inefficiencies across the organization, bringing them to the attention of the executive team, and develop custom applications and projects for each need. The ideal candidate should be comfortable shipping from scratch every week.\n\n - Work cross-functionally to execute special projects between the executive team and the rest of the organization.\n\n - Define and represent operational milestones by collecting company data, developing business intuitions, and executing whatever needs to be done to meet them.\n\n - Design the interfaces, developer workflows, and critical infrastructure that will define the company’s technical foundation.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you\n\n - Strong full-stack skills (TypeScript, React, Python).\n\n - 1-5 years of experience building and shipping software end to end, ideally in a startup environment.\n\n - Product sense and its necessary prerequisites, from AI tooling proficiency to design taste.\n\n - Bias towards action and comfort with incomplete information.\n\n - Ability to continuously learn, set metrics, and solve problems with minimal supervision and maximum impact.\n\n - Excitement for solving technical problems with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Infrastructure or DevOps experience\n\n - Prior startup experience, especially during hyper growth\n\n - Deploying AI systems in enterprise environments\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"d1d009f0-f0c7-4ab6-9f27-881c3ea12505","title":"ASIC Architect","department":"Architecture","team":"Architecture","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-08-05T05:32:15.214+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/d1d009f0-f0c7-4ab6-9f27-881c3ea12505","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/d1d009f0-f0c7-4ab6-9f27-881c3ea12505/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a talented Computer Architect to join our architecture team and contribute to the design of next-generation AI accelerators. This role focuses on developing and optimizing compute architectures that deliver exceptional performance and efficiency for inference workloads. You will work on cutting-edge architectural problems and performance modeling with deep cross-functional collaboration to bring innovative chip designs from concept to silicon.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a talented Computer Architect to join our architecture team and contribute to the design of next-generation AI accelerators. This role focuses on developing and optimizing compute architectures that deliver exceptional performance and efficiency for inference workloads. You will work on cutting-edge architectural problems and performance modeling with deep cross-functional collaboration to bring innovative chip designs from concept to silicon.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Design and analyze chip architectures optimized for AI/ML workloads, with focus on throughput, latency, and power efficiency\n\n - Contribute to power and area estimation methodologies for early-stage, next generation architectural exploration\n\n - Create architectural specifications and interface definitions for compute blocks and subsystems\n\n - Collaborate with RTL, verification, physical design, and software teams to ensure architectural feasibility and ultimate optimization\n\n - Conduct architectural experiments using cycle-accurate simulators and analytical models\n\n - Support integration efforts by providing architectural guidance and resolving design challenges\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field\n\n - 5+ years of experience in computer architecture, ASIC design, or related fields\n\n - Strong understanding of computer architecture fundamentals including pipelines, memory hierarchies, and interconnects\n\n - Experience with performance modeling and architectural simulation tools\n\n - Hands‑on experience designing and optimizing floating‑point datapaths or arithmetic‑intensive circuits and working with advanced process nodes.\n\n - Proficiency in Rust, C/C++, or Python for modeling and analysis\n\n - Knowledge of modern processor microarchitecture and design tradeoffs\n\n - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail\n\n - Excellent communication skills and ability to work in cross-functional teams\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - AI/ML accelerator architectures and dataflow optimization\n\n - RTL design and verification (Verilog/SystemVerilog)\n\n - Cycle-accurate simulation tools (gem5, SystemC, or custom simulators)\n\n - Power and performance analysis methodologies\n\n - ASIC design flow and physical design constraints\n\n - Publishing or presenting at architecture conferences (ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, etc.)\n\n - Hands-on experience with tapeout and silicon bring-up\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"639fe410-56a4-44aa-ac93-8ee7c10c7d75","title":"Growth Ops Intern","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"Intern","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-12-08T22:41:41.532+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/639fe410-56a4-44aa-ac93-8ee7c10c7d75","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/639fe410-56a4-44aa-ac93-8ee7c10c7d75/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

We are an in-person team in San Jose, CA, and are on-site 5 days a week. We are looking for Summer '26, Fall '26, and Summer '27 interns.

Key responsibilities:

Representative projects

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

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

Program details:

For any questions, contact internships@etched.com.

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.

 
","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\nWe are an in-person team in San Jose, CA, and are on-site 5 days a week. We are looking for Summer '26, Fall '26, and Summer '27 interns.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities:\n\n - Early-Career Hiring:\n \n - Help execute Etched’s internship and new-grad hiring strategy.\n \n - Identify exceptional students through universities, technical communities, and unconventional channels.\n \n - Partner with recruiters and hiring leaders on targeted outreach.\n\n - Events & Community:\n \n - Plan private events across the country for high-potential students.\n \n - Build relationships with university clubs, professors, and student leaders.\n \n - Create memorable experiences that introduce candidates to Etched.\n \n - Own guest lists, invitations, venues, logistics, and follow-up.\n\n - Marketing & Sourcing:\n \n - Develop campaigns that make Etched stand out to top students.\n \n - Source candidates through events, referrals, communities, and direct outreach.\n \n - Create compelling early-career recruiting content.\n\n - Program Ownership:\n \n - Track event engagement and recruiting conversion.\n \n - Improve programs as Etched scales.\n \n - Collaborate across recruiting, marketing, and leadership.\n\nRepresentative projects\n\n - Developing sourcing campaigns for hard-to-reach talent.\n\n - Establishing relationships with top university organizations.\n\n - Measuring which events and channels produce the strongest candidates.\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Experience in recruiting, sourcing, events, marketing, or community building.\n\n - Strong instincts for identifying and engaging exceptional people.\n\n - Excellent communication and project-management skills.\n\n - High attention to detail and comfort in a fast-changing environment.\n\n - Willingness to travel for events.\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Community Building: Developing relationships with universities and technical organizations.\n\n - Talent Marketing: Creating campaigns and events that resonate with top candidates.\n\n - Event Execution: Producing high-quality experiences for executives and priority guests.\n\n - Data-Driven Ownership: Measuring results and improving programs quickly.\n\n - Resourceful Sourcing: Finding talent through unconventional networks and personalized outreach.\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.\n\n\n\nProgram details:\n\n - 12-week paid internship\n\n - Generous housing support for those relocating\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Based at our office in San Jose, CA\n\n - Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers\n\n - Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time\n\n\n\nFor any questions, contact internships@etched.com.\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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.\n\n "},{"id":"8bce52ad-2934-4c74-a2aa-aced867f1c19","title":"Manufacturing Operations Program Manager (Taiwan)","department":"Production","team":"Production","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Taipei","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-06T22:40:19.572+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Taiwan","addressCountry":"Taiwan","addressLocality":"Taipei"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/8bce52ad-2934-4c74-a2aa-aced867f1c19","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/8bce52ad-2934-4c74-a2aa-aced867f1c19/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Etched is hiring a Manufacturing Operations Program Manager based in Taiwan to lead day-to-day execution at our contract manufacturer. You will serve as the in-region lead responsible for ramping and sustaining production of our core AI hardware, including package assembly and server construction. You’ll work closely with Etched’s production engineering, planning, and supply chain teams to ensure quality, throughput, and readiness at every stage of the build.

This is a hands-on role with direct accountability for factory performance—ideal for someone who thrives in high-volume, precision-oriented environments and enjoys on-the-ground problem-solving.


Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is hiring a Manufacturing Operations Program Manager based in Taiwan to lead day-to-day execution at our contract manufacturer. You will serve as the in-region lead responsible for ramping and sustaining production of our core AI hardware, including package assembly and server construction. You’ll work closely with Etched’s production engineering, planning, and supply chain teams to ensure quality, throughput, and readiness at every stage of the build.\n\nThis is a hands-on role with direct accountability for factory performance—ideal for someone who thrives in high-volume, precision-oriented environments and enjoys on-the-ground problem-solving.\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Own manufacturing execution at our Taiwan-based Tier 1 contract manufacturer for L6/L10/L11 production, providing day-to-day operational leadership while driving long-term scalability and manufacturing efficiency.\n\n - Serve as the primary communication bridge between the Taiwan factory and Etched's cross-functional and regional teams, ensuring clear, timely, and effective collaboration.\n\n - Lead factory capacity planning by tracking equipment readiness and developing mass production (MP) ramp scenarios to support changing business needs.\n\n - Partner with the contract manufacturer, production planning, and materials teams to develop, optimize, and execute weekly production schedules.\n\n - Oversee production performance across SMT, mechanical assembly, and test operations, ensuring yield, quality, throughput, and output targets are consistently achieved.\n\n - Drive cross-functional resolution of manufacturing and technical issues, including DFM/DFx improvements, yield optimization, and rework reduction, in collaboration with Etched and L10/L11 engineering teams.\n\n - Coordinate new product introduction (NPI) builds, mass production ramps, engineering change orders (ECOs), and process changes to ensure smooth production transitions.\n\n - Provide real-time visibility into production status by proactively tracking build progress, identifying deviations, escalating risks, and driving timely corrective actions.\n\n - \n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - 8+ years experience in data center product manufacturing operations, OPM, Contract Manufacturing or TPM roles\n\n - Track record of working closely with tier 1 CMs in Taiwan or Asia-based fabs\n\n - Ability to travel regularly to the factory and manage execution in person\n\n - Excellent communication and bilingual proficiency (Mandarin and English preferred)\n\n - Skilled at managing escalations, coordinating across time zones, and enforcing timelines\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Engineering background in electrical, mechanical, or packaging domains\n\n - Exposure to MP ramp planning or cost-of-yield improvement initiatives\n\nBenefits\n\n - Competitive compensation packages including generous equity packages\n\n - Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\nWe 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."},{"id":"e593a2f6-8f0b-4328-9fd9-b0ff85cf0827","title":"Manufacturing Test Engineer (Taiwan)","department":"Production","team":"Production","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Taipei","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-27T13:50:38.169+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Taiwan","addressCountry":"Taiwan","addressLocality":"Taipei"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/e593a2f6-8f0b-4328-9fd9-b0ff85cf0827","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/e593a2f6-8f0b-4328-9fd9-b0ff85cf0827/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Taiwan is where our products get built. Our Manufacturing Test Engineering team sits closest to the line — you will be the engineer the factory calls when a board, a module, or a rack does not pass.

Job Summary

As a Product Test Engineer on the Manufacturing Test Engineering team in Taiwan, you will own the electrical debug and failure analysis side of our AI systems at our contract manufacturing partners, taking products from NPI bring-up through high-volume ramp. You will work hands-on at the factory alongside CM/ODM engineers, and partner with our hardware, ASIC, diagnostics, test, and reliability teams in Taiwan and San Jose to drive diagnosability, manufacturing predictability, yield and material improvements, and product reliability.

This role focuses on PCBA and L10/L11 server diagnosability and efficiency of repair, plus the sustaining improvements that keep our AI hardware at the highest standards of quality and reliability.

Builds, bring-ups, and yield escalations require a hands-on approach and flexibility to adapt to critical project timelines as we move products from NPI through high-volume ramp.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

You would set yourself apart from the crowd if you have

Benefits

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 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 and work across disciplines as needed.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\nTaiwan is where our products get built. Our Manufacturing Test Engineering team sits closest to the line — you will be the engineer the factory calls when a board, a module, or a rack does not pass.\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs a Product Test Engineer on the Manufacturing Test Engineering team in Taiwan, you will own the electrical debug and failure analysis side of our AI systems at our contract manufacturing partners, taking products from NPI bring-up through high-volume ramp. 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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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Systems/Performance Verification team. 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.

Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Systems/Performance Verification team. 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.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Work closely with architects and RTL designers on verifying the performance features of the design and correlating with performance models (both pre-silicon and post-silicon).\n\n - Work closely with software and application developers on identifying performance bottlenecks and tuning the software.\n\n - Develop test plans and test infrastructure/tools for performance tuning, correlation, and verification.\n\n - Improve and maintain the architectural performance models.\n\n - Develop tests in SystemVerilog, Python, or vectors to debug and correlate the RTL and performance model.\n\n - Develop SystemVerilog or Python-based checkers for verifying the performance features.\n\n - Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage to ensure all performance features are covered.\n\n - Debug performance issues and conduct performance tuning on silicon.\n\n - Drive end-to-end performance tuning, ensuring optimal hardware utilization, software efficiency, and architectural alignment across the ASIC design lifecycle.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Strong understanding of digital design, RTL, and ASIC design flows.\n\n - Hands-on experience with performance verification, simulation, and modeling.\n\n - Comfortable developing checkers, coverage monitors, and testbenches in SystemVerilog.\n\n - Skilled in writing Python scripts for automation, data analysis, and performance modeling.\n\n - Experience building and maintaining performance models for chip subsystems.\n\n - Understanding of memory hierarchies, pipelines, interconnects, and compute accelerators.\n\n - Familiarity with performance bottleneck analysis, compiler optimizations, and workload tuning\n\n - Some exposure to kernel level performance metrics and profiling tools.\n \n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"d88da917-21f5-42b7-b1e2-8986897aaab1","title":"Design Verification Engineer - Interface IP","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-09-11T18:49:28.530+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/d88da917-21f5-42b7-b1e2-8986897aaab1","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/d88da917-21f5-42b7-b1e2-8986897aaab1/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Interface IP DV team. You will work with architects, designers, and vendors to ensure that all our architecture requirements are met in the IP subsystems and interfaces being created, validate correctness and performance across the full hardware-software stack. This role demands creativity, deep technical ability, and the drive to tackle complex verification challenges.

Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

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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.

Job Summary

At Etched, every role is critical, but as an IT Engineer, you’ll be the key to ensuring everyone can perform at their highest level. You’ll be the trusted resource who keeps our high-performance engineering and operations environment running seamlessly, so teams can innovate without barriers. In this role, you’ll drive company-wide productivity, empower engineers with tools and infrastructure to move at maximum velocity, and champion a culture of operational excellence across all systems. From enabling cutting-edge chip development workflows to streamlining day-to-day IT operations, you’ll ensure nothing slows down our mission to build transformational AI innovation.

Key responsibilities

Representative projects:

You may be a good fit if you have:

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAt Etched, every role is critical, but as an IT Engineer, you’ll be the key to ensuring everyone can perform at their highest level. You’ll be the trusted resource who keeps our high-performance engineering and operations environment running seamlessly, so teams can innovate without barriers. In this role, you’ll drive company-wide productivity, empower engineers with tools and infrastructure to move at maximum velocity, and champion a culture of operational excellence across all systems. 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Okta experience a bonus\n\n - Automate user provisioning and deprovisioning workflows using Rippling, Okta, Google Workspace, and FreeIPA to streamline access management and reduce errors.\n\n - Enforce role-based access controls and audit trails to align with compliance and security standards.\n\n - Design, deploy, and maintain wired and wireless networks, including Wi-Fi access points (WAPs) and controller administration.\n\n - Configure and manage VPN infrastructure to provide secure remote access for distributed teams.\n\n - Administer firewalls, ensuring proper segmentation, policy enforcement, and protection of sensitive environments.\n\n - Develop automation scripts (Python, Bash, PowerShell) to streamline provisioning, patching, monitoring, and user lifecycle management.\n\n - Integrate monitoring and alerting systems to reduce manual workload and increase reliability.\n\n - Champion a culture of operational excellence, ensuring IT systems meet compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).\n\n - Coordinate with external vendors and partners to evaluate new products, support existing offerings, and to resolve IT issues.\n\n - Partner closely with engineering, security, and operations teams to align IT strategy with business and technical goals.\n\n\n\nRepresentative projects:\n\n - Managing a mixed-OS engineering environment (Linux for EDA tools, Windows/macOS for general use) — including imaging, patching, and security hardening.\n\n - Designing and maintaining secure network infrastructure (VPNs, VLANs, firewalls, access control) to protect sensitive chip design IP.\n\n - Implementing and managing endpoint/device lifecycle systems (procurement, setup, MDM, retirement) for engineering and operations teams.\n\n - Deploying and integrating compute resources (on-prem servers and cloud environments) to support large-scale simulations and hardware workflows.\n\n - Building scalable onboarding/offboarding and IT automation workflows to ensure fast, secure ramp-up for new engineers and smooth transitions.\n\n - Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: VPNs, VLANs, firewalls.\n\n - Skilled in endpoint management, system imaging, and hardware lifecycle management.\n\n - Proficient with ticketing systems and adept at prioritizing tasks in busy environments.\n\n - Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineering teams in fast-paced, innovative settings.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have:\n\n - 5-7+ years in an IT support or engineering role with experience across macOS, Windows and Linux\n\n - Excellent problem-solving skills, with a proactive and ownership-driven mindset.\n\n - Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.\n\n - Proven experience with endpoint management tools (e.g., Jump,Cloud, Jamf, Intune, Kandji).\n\n - Hands-on expertise in enterprise VPNs, wireless networking, and zero-trust access models.\n\n - Strong background in EDR/XDR platforms (e.g., ThreadDown, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne).\n\n - Scripting and automation proficiency (Python, Bash, PowerShell).\n\n - Knowledge of security best practices, incident response, and identity/access management (IAM).\n\n - Strong networking expertise, including configuring and troubleshooting TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, and firewalls.\n\n - Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) or a developer-oriented compute infrastructure is a plus.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

As we scale our company, we will face many operational challenges. From deciding pricing, SKUs, and unit economics to accounting, financing strategies, and supply chain management, we are looking for a Finance intern to tackle strategic financial challenges and execute on our day-to-day finance operations.

You will work closely with the executive team to drive financial models, assist with purchase orders and accounts payable, and learn about key strategic issues across the organization, from supply chain to product. You’ll get hands-on experience across FP&A, accounting operations, vendor payments, and pricing/unit economics modeling. We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

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

Program details:

For any questions, contact internships@etched.com.

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs we scale our company, we will face many operational challenges. From deciding pricing, SKUs, and unit economics to accounting, financing strategies, and supply chain management, we are looking for a Finance intern to tackle strategic financial challenges and execute on our day-to-day finance operations.\n\n\n\nYou will work closely with the executive team to drive financial models, assist with purchase orders and accounts payable, and learn about key strategic issues across the organization, from supply chain to product. You’ll get hands-on experience across FP&A, accounting operations, vendor payments, and pricing/unit economics modeling. We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Previous internship experience in consulting, banking, or early startup environments\n\n - Understanding of cash flow management, bank reconciliation, and bookkeeping\n\n - Track record of excellent project management and data analysis skills\n\n - Willingness to do a broad set of finance, accounting, and operations work\n\n - Comfort with Excel/Sheets or basic financial modeling\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Technical Curiosity: experience, education, or interest in computer science, electrical engineering, artificial Intelligence, or a related field.\n\n - Industry interest: Deep curiosity about the AI ecosystem, including emerging trends, cutting-edge technologies, and industry innovations.\n\n - Startup Acumen: Interest in startup finance (equity, cap tables, fundraising)\n\n\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification.\n\n\n\nProgram details:\n\n - 12-week paid internship\n\n - Generous housing support for those relocating\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Based at our office in San Jose, CA\n\n - Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers\n\n - Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time\n\n\n\nFor any questions, contact internships@etched.com.\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"0d71013b-de24-4381-9e44-ea145c7a3fa9","title":"Operations - Talent","department":"People","team":"People","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-14T19:34:26.814+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/0d71013b-de24-4381-9e44-ea145c7a3fa9","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/0d71013b-de24-4381-9e44-ea145c7a3fa9/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

At Etched, talent is our biggest advantage. We believe exceptional teams are the single biggest driver of outsized outcomes. As we scale, we’re looking for a Talent Operations Lead to operate at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and systems.

You’ll report directly to the Head of Talent and help build the operating infrastructure behind one of the fastest-scaling teams in technology. You’ll develop models and analytics that inform how we allocate recruiting resources, measure talent density, and make hiring decisions.

This is a high-visibility role with significant ownership. The best candidate will combine the analytical toolkit of a strong operator with development experience: someone equally comfortable analyzing a problem in SQL or Python, building an executive dashboard, and turning a scrappy internal tool into a durable platform. You’ll work on complex, cross-functional problems, influence leadership decisions, and directly shape how Etched scales its team.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Who you are

Why Etched

At Etched, we are building the world’s most advanced AI inference hardware. We believe in the power of small, exceptional teams and in creating an environment where A-players can do the best work of their careers. This role offers a rare chance to be at the center of that mission, shaping the systems and processes that will scale Etched into the future.

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAt Etched, talent is our biggest advantage. We believe exceptional teams are the single biggest driver of outsized outcomes. As we scale, we’re looking for a Talent Operations Lead to operate at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and systems.\n\nYou’ll report directly to the Head of Talent and help build the operating infrastructure behind one of the fastest-scaling teams in technology. You’ll develop models and analytics that inform how we allocate recruiting resources, measure talent density, and make hiring decisions.\n\nThis is a high-visibility role with significant ownership. The best candidate will combine the analytical toolkit of a strong operator with development experience: someone equally comfortable analyzing a problem in SQL or Python, building an executive dashboard, and turning a scrappy internal tool into a durable platform. 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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.

Job Summary

We are seeking talented Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 Inference Architecture interns to join our team and contribute to the design of next-generation AI accelerators. This role focuses on developing and optimizing compute architectures that deliver exceptional performance and efficiency for inference workloads. You will work on cutting-edge architectural problems and performance modeling over the course of your internship.

Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may have some experience with

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

Program details

For any questions, contact internships@etched.com.

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking talented Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 Inference Architecture interns to join our team and contribute to the design of next-generation AI accelerators. This role focuses on developing and optimizing compute architectures that deliver exceptional performance and efficiency for inference workloads. You will work on cutting-edge architectural problems and performance modeling over the course of your internship.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Support porting state-of-the-art models to our architecture. Help build programming abstractions and testing capabilities to rapidly iterate on model porting.\n\n - Assist in building, enhancing, and scaling our runtime, including multi-node inference, intra-node execution, state management, and robust error handling.\n\n - Contribute to optimizing routing and communication layers using our collectives.\n\n - Utilize performance profiling and debugging tools to identify bottlenecks and correctness issues.\n\n - Develop and leverage a deep understanding of our architecture to co-design both HW instructions and model architecture operations to maximize model performance\n\n - Implement high-performance software components for the Model Toolkit\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, applied mathematics, or a related field\n\n - Proficiency in Python, C++\n\n - Understanding of performance-sensitive or complex distributed software systems, e.g. Linux internals, accelerator architectures (e.g. GPUs, TPUs), Compilers, or high-speed interconnects (e.g. NVLink, InfiniBand).\n\n - Ported applications to non-standard accelerator hardware or hardware platforms.\n\n - Deep knowledge of transformer model architectures and/or inference serving stacks (vLLM, SGLang, etc.)\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may have some experience with\n\n - Proficiency in Rust\n\n - Low-latency, high-performance applications using both kernel-level and user-space networking stacks.\n\n - Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts, algorithms, and challenges, including consensus protocols, consistency models, and communication patterns.\n\n - Solid grasp of Transformer architectures, particularly Mixture-of-Experts (MoE).\n\n - Built applications with extensive SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) optimizations for performance-critical paths.\n\n - Familiarity with PyTorch or JAX.\n\n - Math competitions (AIME, AMC, etc)\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification.\n\n\n\nProgram details\n\n - 12-week paid internship\n\n - Generous housing support for those relocating\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Based at our office in San Jose, CA\n\n - Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers\n\n - Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time\n\n\n\nFor any questions, contact internships@etched.com.\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"9a3eed83-b5b2-4ac4-a2d4-9dc9dd734869","title":"Post-Silicon Validation Engineer","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-10-13T19:43:57.492+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/9a3eed83-b5b2-4ac4-a2d4-9dc9dd734869","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/9a3eed83-b5b2-4ac4-a2d4-9dc9dd734869/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Post Silicon Validation Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for bringing up, validating, and characterizing ASICs from first silicon through the production ramp. This role is crucial in ensuring functional correctness, performance, and reliability of our AI/ML accelerator hardware, enabling successful deployment of our cutting-edge products.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Post Silicon Validation Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for bringing up, validating, and characterizing ASICs from first silicon through the production ramp. This role is crucial in ensuring functional correctness, performance, and reliability of our AI/ML accelerator hardware, enabling successful deployment of our cutting-edge products.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Drive early bring-up of first silicon, including boot, initialization, and debug of ASICs.\n\n - Perform deep-dive debug of silicon issues across RTL, firmware, and system levels.\n\n - Collaborate closely with design, verification, and board teams to root-cause and resolve functional and electrical issues.\n\n - Validate and characterize custom IP blocks and accelerator components.\n\n - Execute functional and performance validation of compute units and specialized processing elements.\n\n - Conduct IP-level and full-chip stress testing and corner case analysis to ensure robust operation.\n\n - Develop and extend post-silicon validation infrastructure, automation, and test suites.\n\n - Implement efficient result capture, analysis, and regression frameworks.\n\n - Utilize lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, analyzers, BERTs, pattern generators) for detailed signal and system characterization.\n\n - Define validation strategies and coverage metrics across design blocks and subsystems.\n\n - Partner with RTL, DFT, ATE, firmware, and system architecture teams to ensure smooth transition from pre-silicon verification to post-silicon validation.\n\n - Provide critical feedback on test escapes, yield issues, and silicon errata, influencing silicon revisions and firmware/driver workarounds.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 7+ years of experience in post-silicon validation, bring-up, and debug of ASICs (preferably including AI/ML accelerators)\n\n - Proven expertise in early silicon bring-up, debug, and validation\n\n - Deep knowledge of peripheral interfaces and board-level debug\n\n - Proficiency in C, Python, and scripting for validation automation\n\n - Hands-on expertise with oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers, and other validation lab tools\n\n - Familiarity with firmware, bootloaders, and low-level silicon debug environments\n\n - Strong problem-solving, analytical, and collaboration skills across hardware and software teams\n\n - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (Master's preferred)\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Low-speed peripheral interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, JTAG)\n\n - High-speed protocols (PCIe, Ethernet)\n\n - Memory subsystems (HBM, DDR)\n\n - Performance and thermal characterization\n\n - AI/ML model profiling and workload correlation\n\n - System-level validation of accelerators or server platforms\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"3da8034e-4639-44b0-99a4-aeec6ff9e59c","title":"Supercomputing Test Software Engineer (Taiwan)","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Taipei","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-10-29T19:49:50.506+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Taiwan","addressCountry":"Taiwan","addressLocality":"Taipei"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/3da8034e-4639-44b0-99a4-aeec6ff9e59c","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/3da8034e-4639-44b0-99a4-aeec6ff9e59c/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking highly motivated and detail-oriented Software Engineers to join our Supercomputing Testing team. This team plays a critical role in ensuring the reliability and stability of our highest-performance Inference server hardware and software. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will design, develop, and execute comprehensive supercomputing test suites, analyze test results, and collaborate with hardware and software engineering teams at Etched and our ODM partners to identify and resolve potential issues. You will be at the forefront of ensuring our server products meet the highest quality standards before they reach our customers.

Key Responsibilities

Representative projects

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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 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 and work across disciplines as needed.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking highly motivated and detail-oriented Software Engineers to join our Supercomputing Testing team. This team plays a critical role in ensuring the reliability and stability of our highest-performance Inference server hardware and software. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will design, develop, and execute comprehensive supercomputing test suites, analyze test results, and collaborate with hardware and software engineering teams at Etched and our ODM partners to identify and resolve potential issues. You will be at the forefront of ensuring our server products meet the highest quality standards before they reach our customers.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Design, develop, and implement automated supercomputing test suites using common scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash) and test frameworks across all aspects of System Operation including: boot sequences, root-of-trust, system management, workload deployment and performance.\n\n - Execute tests on server hardware, monitor system performance and health, and analyze test results.\n\n - Investigate and debug hardware and software failures identified during testing, providing detailed reports and mitigation plans.\n\n - Collaborate with internal and external hardware and software engineering teams to identify root causes of failures and implement corrective actions.\n\n - Contribute to the development and maintenance of the supercomputing testing infrastructure, including portable test environments and automation tools runnable in any environment.\n\n - Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for test plans, test cases, and test results.\n\n - Analyze system performance metrics to identify potential bottlenecks and areas for optimization.\n\n - Participate in continuous improvement efforts to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the testing process.\n\n\n\nRepresentative projects\n\n - Develop automated test suites to stress-testing of Supercomputing AI subsystems under extreme at-scale workloads.\n\n - Design and implement fault injection tests to simulate hardware and software failures.\n\n - Create tools to monitor and analyze system performance metrics, such as CPU utilization, cross-socket memory performance and usage, and network latency.\n\n - Build and maintain a scalable testing environment capable of handling multiple server configurations.\n\n - Collaborate with hardware engineers to develop tests for new server features and components.\n\n - Contribute to the creation of Pod-level dashboards tracking system testing across hundreds of AI accelerators.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash, Go).\n\n - Experience with software testing methodologies and tools.\n\n - Strong understanding of operating systems (Linux preferred) and server hardware architectures.\n\n - Ability to analyze complex technical problems and provide effective solutions.\n\n - Excellent communication and collaboration skills.\n\n - Ability to work independently and as part of a team.\n\n - Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).\n\n - Experience with reading and interpreting hardware logs.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience with hardware burn-in testing or reliability testing.\n\n - Experience with performance testing and benchmarking tools.\n\n - Familiarity with hardware diagnostic tools and techniques.\n\n - Experience with CI/CD pipelines.\n\n - Knowledge of low level hardware communication protocols (i2c, etc.)\n\n - Experience with data analysis tools and techniques.\n \n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Competitive compensation packages including generous equity packages\n\n - Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n \n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row) 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 and work across disciplines as needed."},{"id":"f80dc5c6-de4f-455c-9c98-720313e5547a","title":"Supercomputing Software Engineer (Taiwan)","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Taipei","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-10-29T19:52:00.274+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Taiwan","addressCountry":"Taiwan","addressLocality":"Taipei"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/f80dc5c6-de4f-455c-9c98-720313e5547a","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/f80dc5c6-de4f-455c-9c98-720313e5547a/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Supercomputing Software Engineer to join our team, responsible for the foundational software that powers our server infrastructure. This role focuses on the development, integration, and debugging of critical system software components, including BIOS, BMC firmware, boot processes (including NetBoot), root of trust implementations, advanced system logging, and kernel-mode drivers. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of our server platforms, and contribute to the integration of data center orchestration technologies at the node level.

Key Team Responsibilities

Representative Projects

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Supercomputing Software Engineer to join our team, responsible for the foundational software that powers our server infrastructure. This role focuses on the development, integration, and debugging of critical system software components, including BIOS, BMC firmware, boot processes (including NetBoot), root of trust implementations, advanced system logging, and kernel-mode drivers. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of our server platforms, and contribute to the integration of data center orchestration technologies at the node level.\n\n\n\nKey Team Responsibilities\n\n - Integrate and maintain BIOS and BMC firmware, ensuring robust and efficient server boot processes.\n\n - Analyze DRAM timings, PCIe configurations, power state transitions etc. to ensure high performance and maximal reliability.\n\n - Validating security features, including root of trust mechanisms, to protect system integrity and data security.\n\n - Design and implement advanced system logging and diagnostic capabilities to facilitate efficient troubleshooting and performance analysis.\n\n - Integrate and optimize node-level data center orchestration technologies, such as Kubernetes and Docker, into the system software stack.\n\n - Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate system software functionality, stability, and performance.\n\n - Collaborate with hardware and software teams to diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues.\n\n\n\nRepresentative Projects\n\n - Implement and validate secure boot processes, including root of trust verification.\n\n - Design and implement advanced system logging and monitoring solutions.\n\n - Optimize BIOS and BMC firmware for improved boot times and system stability.\n\n - Integrate node-level container orchestration capabilities into the system software.\n\n - Analyze and resolve complex system-level issues related to boot failures, hardware errors, and performance degradation.\n\n - Analyze and optimize system level logging for large scale server deployments.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Proficiency in C/C++ or Python.\n\n - Strong understanding of BIOS and BMC firmware architectures.\n\n - Experience with server boot processes.\n\n - Knowledge of root-of-trust and security principles.\n\n - Strong understanding of operating systems (Linux preferred) and server hardware architectures.\n\n - Experience with advanced system logging and diagnostic tools.\n\n - Ability to analyze complex technical problems and provide effective solutions.\n\n - Excellent communication and collaboration skills.\n\n - Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).\n\n - Experience with reading and interpreting hardware logs.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience with data center orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).\n\n - Experience with tracing tools like perf, eBPF, ftrace, etc.\n\n - Experience with performance testing and benchmarking tools (gProf, vTune, Wireshark, etc.).\n\n - Experience with CI/CD pipelines.\n\n - Experience with Rust.\n\n - Experience with kernel-mode driver development and debugging.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Competitive compensation packages including generous equity packages\n\n - Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n \n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\n - Co-Develop cutting-edge software optimized across hardware and software driving the full potential of very large AI models.\n\n - Solve challenging problems across the full stack, from low-level drivers and APIs to high-level applications and frameworks.\n\n - Contribute to the development of AI solutions that will revolutionize industries like natural language processing, chain of reasoning automation, generative media.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.\n\n - 3 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.\n\n - 3 years of experience developing and testing software on launching products.\n\n - 3 years of experience with firmware design, implementation, and troubleshooting.\n\n - 3 years of experience with embedded architectures, IO technologies (I2C, SPI, PCIe, DRAM etc.), as well as concepts like scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Master’s degree Computer Science, or a related technical field.\n\n - Experience resolving customer-related issues.\n\n - Experience solving ambiguous problems.\n\n - Excellent verbal and written communication skills.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Competitive compensation packages including generous equity packages\n\n - Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\n\nWe 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."},{"id":"6b98caba-e295-44c5-b0d5-8e4a8b82cd7f","title":"Senior Firmware Engineer (Taiwan)","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Taipei","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2025-10-29T19:59:40.882+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Taiwan","addressCountry":"Taiwan","addressLocality":"Taipei"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/6b98caba-e295-44c5-b0d5-8e4a8b82cd7f","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/6b98caba-e295-44c5-b0d5-8e4a8b82cd7f/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We're searching for passionate software engineers to join our fast growing team. You'll have the opportunity to:

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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 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 and work across disciplines as needed.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe're searching for passionate software engineers to join our fast growing team. You'll have the opportunity to:\n\n - Design cutting-edge software optimizing the performance of our chips and unlocking the full potential of very large AI models.\n\n - Co-Develop with a world-class team of hardware and software engineers to push the boundaries of AI technology.\n\n - Solve challenging problems across the full stack, from low-level drivers and APIs to high-level applications and frameworks.\n\n - Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).\n\n - Contribute to the development of AI solutions that will revolutionize industries like natural language processing, chain of reasoning automation, generative media.\n \n \n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Strong programming skills in C++, Rust, and/or Python\n\n - Experience with embedded systems, high-performance computing or distributed systems.\n\n - Deep understanding of computer architecture and operating systems\n\n - Passion for AI and a desire to make a real-world impact\n\n - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.\n\n - 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.\n\n - 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products, and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.\n\n - 5 years of experience with firmware design, implementation, and troubleshooting.\n\n - 5 years of experience with embedded architectures, IO technologies (I2C, SPI, PCIe, DRAM etc.), as well as concepts like scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.\n\n - 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.\n\n - Experience with Java or Go, with the ability to resolve customer-related issues.\n\n - Experienced in developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.\n\n - Excellent verbal and written communication skills.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Competitive compensation packages including generous equity packages\n\n - Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\n\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row) 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 and work across disciplines as needed."},{"id":"69e75a95-6476-452d-bb41-86ac7ce52a98","title":"Performance Modeling Engineer","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-21T22:01:17.805+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/69e75a95-6476-452d-bb41-86ac7ce52a98","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/69e75a95-6476-452d-bb41-86ac7ce52a98/application","descriptionHtml":"

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

You may be a good fit if you have at least one of the following:

Strong candidates may also have

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Develop comprehensive performance models and projections for our architecture across varying workloads and configurations\n\n - Profile and analyze deep learning workloads on our hardware to identify micro-architectural bottlenecks and influence optimization opportunities\n\n - Drive hardware/software co-optimization by identifying where architectural features can unlock performance improvements\n\n - Run regressions and validate performance models against real systems and silicon\n\n - Inform next-generation architectural decisions by pathfinding across system and silicon options during design, proof-of-concept, and architecting phases\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have at least one of the following:\n\n - Strong performance modeling and analysis skills with experience building analytical-based or simulation-based performance models\n\n - Solid understanding of computer architecture and micro-architecture, particularly for accelerators\n\n - Experience profiling and analyzing deep learning workloads on hardware accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, ASICs, FPGAs, or others)\n\n - Solid software engineering fundamentals with an eye toward auditability and maintainability\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have\n\n - Deep knowledge of GPU architectures and/or programming models like CUDA\n\n - Experience mapping models to multi-chip inference systems\n\n - Familiarity with transformer model architectures and inference serving optimizations\n\n - Experience with architecture simulators and performance modeling tools (gem5, trace-driven simulators, custom models)\n\n - Exposure to ASIC, FPGA, or CGRA-based accelerator development and hardware/software co-design principles\n\n - Published research in computer architecture, ML systems, or hardware acceleration\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"a3f5858a-4a34-4712-802c-315352d88156","title":"EE Hardware System Engineer (TW)","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Taipei","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-21T06:42:57.584+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"Taiwan","addressCountry":"Taiwan","addressLocality":"Taipei"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/a3f5858a-4a34-4712-802c-315352d88156","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/a3f5858a-4a34-4712-802c-315352d88156/application","descriptionHtml":"

About Etched

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. Co-designing 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.

Job Summary

Etched is looking for exceptional hardware system engineers to join our team. The candidate will be responsible for schematic design for our accelerator module, and will help us pave the way for manufacturing scale.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. Co-designing 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is looking for exceptional hardware system engineers to join our team. The candidate will be responsible for schematic design for our accelerator module, and will help us pave the way for manufacturing scale.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Lead board development for Etched’s accelerator systems\n\n - Work with Signal Integrity, PCB, and Mechanical Engineering to solve system level design problems\n\n - Collaborate with ODMs/OEMs on system requirements, including bringup and validation plans\n\n - Understand datacenter customer requirements and ensure our servers meet them\n\n - Bring up of system base board and mezzanine card\n\n - Create and manage PCBA documentation including BOMs and special assembly processes\n\n - Define test plans and test equipment for bring-up and manufacturing\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - 5-10 years of experience in complex server/switch system design and development\n\n - Extensive experience on 100G Ethernet, PCIe Gen5, I2C, SPI, UART interfaces\n\n - Familiar with modern AI/datacenter system architecture\n\n - Proven track record of designing systems alongside silicon\n\n - Deep understanding of datacenter needs, especially with respect to high power (>10 kW) AI servers\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Competitive compensation packages, including generous equity packages\n\n - Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits\n\n\n\nHow We’re Different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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.\n\n"},{"id":"ec27e36f-e6eb-4f31-8aa0-79b9a72796c5","title":"Sr. Thermal Engineer, Liquid Cooling Systems","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-14T01:37:42.049+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ec27e36f-e6eb-4f31-8aa0-79b9a72796c5","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ec27e36f-e6eb-4f31-8aa0-79b9a72796c5/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Thermal Engineer, Liquid Cooling Systems to join our team and lead our efforts in optimizing thermal management for high-performance systems. As a Senior Thermal Engineer, Liquid Cooling Systems at Etched, you will play a crucial role in developing and implementing advanced thermal management solutions for our high-performance data center products. Your expertise in water cooling, thermal simulations, and cooling system design will be essential in ensuring optimal thermal performance and reliability. You will work with various water cooling components, including internal manifolds, quick disconnects, CDU (Coolant Distribution Units), heat exchangers, and advanced thermal interface materials.

Key responsibilities

You maybe a good fit if you have

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

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a highly experienced Senior Thermal Engineer, Liquid Cooling Systems to join our team and lead our efforts in optimizing thermal management for high-performance systems. As a Senior Thermal Engineer, Liquid Cooling Systems at Etched, you will play a crucial role in developing and implementing advanced thermal management solutions for our high-performance data center products. Your expertise in water cooling, thermal simulations, and cooling system design will be essential in ensuring optimal thermal performance and reliability. You will work with various water cooling components, including internal manifolds, quick disconnects, CDU (Coolant Distribution Units), heat exchangers, and advanced thermal interface materials.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Lead the design and optimization of thermal management systems for high-performance data center products, focusing on water cooling solutions and advanced cooling concepts.\n\n - Develop and implement water cooling solutions, including internal manifolds, quick disconnects, CDUs (Coolant Distribution Units), and heat exchangers. Ensure effective cooling and thermal management for high-power processors and other critical components.\n\n - Design and manage direct-to-processor water cooling systems to efficiently dissipate heat and maintain optimal operating temperatures.\n\n - Conduct detailed thermal simulations to predict and analyze thermal performance. Use simulation results to guide the design and optimization of cooling systems.\n\n - Evaluate and select thermal interface materials (TIMs) for various heat sinks and cooling solutions. Optimize TIM performance to enhance thermal conductivity and heat dissipation.\n\n - Explore and implement advanced thermal cooling concepts, including phase change cooling, liquid cooling, and other cutting-edge technologies.\n\n - Oversee the testing and validation of thermal management systems to ensure they meet performance, reliability, and efficiency standards. Address any issues related to thermal performance and provide solutions.\n\n - Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for thermal management designs, including design specifications, simulation results, and testing reports. Report on performance and any issues identified during testing.\n\n - Work closely with cross-functional teams, including mechanical engineers, electrical systems engineers, and vendors, to ensure seamless integration and operation of thermal management solutions.\n\n\n\nYou maybe a good fit if you have\n\n - A Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Thermal Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degrees or certifications in thermal management or related areas are highly desirable.\n\n - A Minimum of 10 years of experience in thermal engineering with a strong focus on water cooling systems and advanced thermal management solutions. Proven expertise in designing and managing direct-to-processor cooling systems and thermal simulations.\n\n - Extensive experience with water cooling systems, including internal manifolds, quick disconnects, CDUs, and heat exchangers\n\n - Expertise in direct-to-processor cooling solutions and thermal management for high-power components\n\n - Proficiency in thermal simulation tools and techniques to predict and analyze thermal performance\n\n - Knowledge of various thermal interface materials (TIMs) and heat sink designs\n\n - Experience with advanced thermal cooling concepts and technologies.\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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."},{"id":"c68df61f-2526-4fcd-9ac5-6faa23bb2bca","title":"Global Supply Manager, Mechanicals","department":"Production","team":"Production","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-01-19T21:15:18.825+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/c68df61f-2526-4fcd-9ac5-6faa23bb2bca","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/c68df61f-2526-4fcd-9ac5-6faa23bb2bca/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

As Etched scales global deployments of our inference systems, we are seeking an experienced Global Supply Manager to own sourcing and supplier strategy for mechanical components and assemblies, including enclosures, thermal hardware, structural components, racks, and custom fabrication.

You will be responsible for building and managing Etched’s global supply base for critical mechanical systems — ensuring we can deliver high-performance hardware with tight tolerances, aggressive thermal requirements, and rapid production ramps. This is a strategic and highly cross-functional role working closely with mechanical engineering, thermal engineering, and manufacturing operations.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs Etched scales global deployments of our inference systems, we are seeking an experienced Global Supply Manager to own sourcing and supplier strategy for mechanical components and assemblies, including enclosures, thermal hardware, structural components, racks, and custom fabrication.\n\nYou will be responsible for building and managing Etched’s global supply base for critical mechanical systems — ensuring we can deliver high-performance hardware with tight tolerances, aggressive thermal requirements, and rapid production ramps. This is a strategic and highly cross-functional role working closely with mechanical engineering, thermal engineering, and manufacturing operations.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Develop and execute sourcing strategies for mechanical components and assemblies, including sheet metal, CNC machined parts, castings, extrusions, and rack-level enclosures\n\n - Build and manage relationships with fabrication partners, contract manufacturers, and integrators across regions\n\n - Negotiate pricing, tooling, NREs, and long-term supply agreements for complex mechanical systems\n\n - Partner closely with Mechanical and Thermal Engineering teams on design decisions, DFM, material selection, and supplier qualification\n\n - Drive cost modeling, should-cost analysis, and benchmarking for fabricated and assembled mechanical components\n\n - Ensure suppliers can meet tight tolerances, flatness requirements, cosmetic standards, and thermal/mechanical performance specifications\n\n - Identify and mitigate supply risks related to capacity, tooling lead times, yield, and regional concentration\n\n - Align sourcing strategies with NPI schedules, product ramps, and datacenter deployment timelines\n\n - Support build readiness, pilot builds, and ramp by coordinating closely with manufacturing and program management\n\n - Present sourcing strategies, cost tradeoffs, and supply risks to executive leadership\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field\n\n - 7+ years of experience in sourcing or commodity management for mechanical components in hardware systems\n\n - Strong understanding of fabrication processes including sheet metal, CNC machining, die casting, extrusion, and finishing processes\n\n - Experience working with mechanical engineering teams on DFM, tolerancing, and material selection\n\n - Proven track record managing complex supplier relationships and negotiating high-value contracts\n\n - Strong analytical skills in cost modeling, should-cost analysis, and BOM evaluation\n\n - Experience scaling mechanical supply for NPI and high-volume production\n\n - Ability to operate in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and make critical decisions with limited data\n\n - Experience managing global suppliers, particularly across Asia\n \n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Experience with datacenter hardware, server enclosures, or rack-level mechanical systems\n\n - Familiarity with thermal solutions including heat sinks, cold plates, liquid cooling integration, and airflow management\n\n - Experience with precision tolerance stack-ups for high-performance compute systems\n\n - Background in tooling strategy and lifecycle management for mechanical parts\n\n - Experience working in a high-growth hardware startup environment\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

The roles

Our chip simulation and tooling role will co-design, develop, and test simulations of our custom hardware and tools that engineers use to analyze those systems. You will be working at the cutting edge of hardware innovation, closely coordinating with both software and hardware teams across their whole development path. We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have (Nice to have qualifications)

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

Program details


For any questions, contact internships@etched.com

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.

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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.

Job Summary

In our firmware role, you will help develop firmware for our chips, designed to run large AI models efficiently. You’ll work across the stack—from low-level drivers, hardware interfaces, and system initialization code to integration with runtime libraries and model-execution frameworks. Your work will focus on making the hardware operate reliably and at peak performance, enabling high-throughput inference and training workloads. You’ll collaborate with hardware, architecture, and software teams to bring up new silicon, validate features, and support real-world AI applications. We are looking for Summer '26, Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have (Nice to have qualifications)

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

Program details


For any questions, contact internships@etched.com

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.

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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.

Job Summary

Our mechanical/thermal engineering interns will work within the mechanical and thermal engineering organization, with a strong focus on NPI prototyping, manufacturing fixture development, liquid cooling technologies and rack-level system development

Our Platform Team is building the full-stack system that supports Etched Silicon from PCB to Rack. We are seeking interns to work across all aspects of mechanical and electrical engineering to design the future of high power ASIC systems. We are looking for Summer '26, Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

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

Program details:


For any questions, contact internships@etched.com

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nOur mechanical/thermal engineering interns will work within the mechanical and thermal engineering organization, with a strong focus on NPI prototyping, manufacturing fixture development, liquid cooling technologies and rack-level system development\n\nOur Platform Team is building the full-stack system that supports Etched Silicon from PCB to Rack. We are seeking interns to work across all aspects of mechanical and electrical engineering to design the future of high power ASIC systems. We are looking for Summer '26, Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Progress towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field\n\n - Experience building real mechanical systems, boards, or other hands-on projects.\n\n - Knowledge of board design cycle, high-speed interconnects, power delivery, and system integration.\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification.\n\n\n\nProgram details:\n\n - 12-week paid internship\n\n - Generous housing support for those relocating\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Based at our office in San Jose, CA\n\n - Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers\n\n - Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time\n\n\nFor any questions, contact internships@etched.com\n\n\n\nHow We're Different\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"dacedaca-c4ca-4964-85a7-8df1738005bb","title":"DV Intern","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"Intern","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-02-07T01:26:37.548+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/dacedaca-c4ca-4964-85a7-8df1738005bb","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/dacedaca-c4ca-4964-85a7-8df1738005bb/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

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

Strong candidates may also have experience with

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

Program details

For any questions, contact internships@etched.com

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs 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.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.\n\n - Familiarity with high-speed digital logic\n\n - Exposure to ASIC or SoC design concepts\n\n - Familiarity with SystemVerilog, UVM, or Python\n\n - Familiarity with verification work and writing test benches\n\n - Familiarity with physical design flows and tooling\n\n - Are able to learn quickly about transformers and other aspects of modern artificial intelligence\n \n \n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures\n\n - UVM or formal verification experience\n\n - Ability to program with Python or another scripting language\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.\n\n\n\nProgram details\n\n - 12-week paid internship\n\n - Generous housing support for those relocating\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Based at our office in San Jose, CA\n\n - Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers\n\n - Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time\n\n\n\nFor any questions, contact internships@etched.com\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"bd8c5768-7efa-4a18-9e56-485ccaf4ec77","title":"PD Intern","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"Intern","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-19T22:31:56.771+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/bd8c5768-7efa-4a18-9e56-485ccaf4ec77","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/bd8c5768-7efa-4a18-9e56-485ccaf4ec77/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

As a Physical Design intern for Etched, you will be responsible for realizing our front-end designs in silicon, helping Etched to improve iteration speed to final signoff. You will assist in developing and running Physical Design flows to synthesize blocks, automate final design checks, and advise RTL design decisions. We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

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

Program details

For any questions, contact internships@etched.com

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs a Physical Design intern for Etched, you will be responsible for realizing our front-end designs in silicon, helping Etched to improve iteration speed to final signoff. You will assist in developing and running Physical Design flows to synthesize blocks, automate final design checks, and advise RTL design decisions. We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.\n\n - Familiarity with high-speed digital logic\n\n - Exposure to ASIC or SoC design concepts\n\n - Familiarity with SystemVerilog, UVM, or Python\n\n - Familiarity with verification work and writing test benches\n\n - Familiarity with physical design flows and tooling\n\n - Are able to learn quickly about transformers and other aspects of modern artificial intelligence\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures\n\n - Familiarity with numerical representations and functions (RTL)\n\n - Familiarity with clocking and reset schemes (RTL/PD)\n\n - UVM or formal verification experience (DV)\n\n - Ability to program with Python or another scripting language\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.\n\n\n\nProgram details\n\n - 12-week paid internship\n\n - Generous housing support for those relocating\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Based at our office in San Jose, CA\n\n - Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers\n\n - Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time\n\n\n\nFor any questions, contact internships@etched.com\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"904ddf46-55fc-4a8f-8b49-f32cfe88116a","title":"Electrical Platform Intern","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"Intern","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-02-07T01:29:58.073+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/904ddf46-55fc-4a8f-8b49-f32cfe88116a","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/904ddf46-55fc-4a8f-8b49-f32cfe88116a/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Our electrical engineering interns will work on both hands-on product design and the development of design and validation infrastructure to design boards that will support bleeding edge systems and silicon.

Our Platform Team is building the full-stack system that supports Etched Silicon from PCB to Rack. We are seeking interns to work across all aspects of mechanical and electrical engineering to design the future of high power ASIC systems. We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

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

Program details


For any questions, contact internships@etched.com

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nOur electrical engineering interns will work on both hands-on product design and the development of design and validation infrastructure to design boards that will support bleeding edge systems and silicon.\n\nOur Platform Team is building the full-stack system that supports Etched Silicon from PCB to Rack. We are seeking interns to work across all aspects of mechanical and electrical engineering to design the future of high power ASIC systems. We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Progress towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field\n\n - Experience building real mechanical systems, boards, or other hands-on projects.\n\n - Knowledge of board design cycle, high-speed interconnects, power delivery, and system integration.\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification.\n\n\n\nProgram details\n\n - 12-week paid internship\n\n - Generous housing support for those relocating\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Based at our office in San Jose, CA\n\n - Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers\n\n - Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time\n\n\nFor any questions, contact internships@etched.com\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"5bbcfd60-5917-4698-a7fc-d7e6bb16da62","title":"Security Engineer","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-02-18T21:27:42.200+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/5bbcfd60-5917-4698-a7fc-d7e6bb16da62","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/5bbcfd60-5917-4698-a7fc-d7e6bb16da62/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

At Etched, building and maintaining a secure yet friction-free computing environment is central to our mission. As a Security Engineer, you will protect the networks, systems, and applications that enable our engineers to push the limits of AI hardware. You will design, implement, and operate the monitoring, detection, and response infrastructure that safeguards Etched’s intellectual property, high-performance compute clusters, and developer workflows across both on-prem and cloud environments. You will partner with infrastructure, IT, application, and external provider teams to build systems that are secure by design, resilient under pressure, and seamless and easy to use for the end users.

This role combines hands-on technical depth with a focus on scalability and automation. You will take ownership of Etched’s security posture across infrastructure, IT, and applications, driving proactive threat detection, real-time monitoring, and rapid incident response. Your decisions will always balance maintaining full firm-wide velocity while improving our security and defense posture. You will develop tools, automation, and workflows that evolve with our rapidly growing and expanding footprint and ensure that security enhances, rather than hinders, innovation. If you are motivated by precision, ownership, and impact, you will find Etched the ideal place to advance your craft and contribute to the future of AI computing.

Key Responsibilities

Representative Projects

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAt Etched, building and maintaining a secure yet friction-free computing environment is central to our mission. As a Security Engineer, you will protect the networks, systems, and applications that enable our engineers to push the limits of AI hardware. You will design, implement, and operate the monitoring, detection, and response infrastructure that safeguards Etched’s intellectual property, high-performance compute clusters, and developer workflows across both on-prem and cloud environments. You will partner with infrastructure, IT, application, and external provider teams to build systems that are secure by design, resilient under pressure, and seamless and easy to use for the end users.\n\n\n\nThis role combines hands-on technical depth with a focus on scalability and automation. You will take ownership of Etched’s security posture across infrastructure, IT, and applications, driving proactive threat detection, real-time monitoring, and rapid incident response. Your decisions will always balance maintaining full firm-wide velocity while improving our security and defense posture. You will develop tools, automation, and workflows that evolve with our rapidly growing and expanding footprint and ensure that security enhances, rather than hinders, innovation. 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Operate and enhance security operations tooling, including SIEM, SOAR, and EDR/XDR platforms, to ensure comprehensive monitoring and rapid detection of threats.\n\n - Develop and tune detection logic, automation, and playbooks for identifying and responding to threats such as insider activity, lateral movement, and anomalous behavior.\n\n - Investigate and respond to security incidents, performing root-cause analysis, containment, and remediation while coordinating with engineering and IT.\n\n - Build automation, scripts, AI agents, and integrations that streamline monitoring, alerting, and remediation workflows to improve efficiency and reliability.\n\n - Establish metrics, dashboards, and feedback mechanisms to measure detection coverage, response time, and overall security health.\n\n - Promote a culture of security awareness and ownership across engineering teams, ensuring that protection and productivity advance together.\n\n\n\nRepresentative Projects\n\n - Implementing a centralized security telemetry pipeline that aggregates logs and signals from networks, compute clusters, storage, endpoints devices, build systems, and cloud services into a unified SIEM for improved detection coverage.\n\n - Designing and developing Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) workflows to automate repetitive tasks like alert triage, data gathering, and initial containment, which improves SOC efficiency.\n\n - Help build a secure and flexible end user access framework that uses SDWAN, SASE, CASB, conditional access, EDR and XDR, and MDM/MAM to support productive, friction-free and secure work from any location using different devices.\n\n - Network Security Monitoring: Configuring and monitoring network intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS) and firewalls to detect anomalies in network traffic, especially on the SDWAN and client VPN links\n\n - Creating and refining detailed, documented incident response plans and playbooks tailored to specific scenarios, such as a breach in a lab environment or a compromised silicon testing machine.\n\n - Conducting regular vulnerability assessments and penetration testing on internal systems and applications, then coordinating with relevant teams to manage and remediate identified weaknesses.\n\n\n\nYou May Be a Good Fit If You Have\n\n - 5-7+ years of experience in security engineering, SOC operations, detection engineering, incident response, or a similar role that blends hands-on technical work with analytical problem solving.\n\n - Strong software engineering skills with Python, Go, Bash, (C and Rust a major plus), including the ability to design, implement, and maintain high-quality code, automation frameworks, services, and integrations that improve security, observability, and operational efficiency.\n\n - Proficiency with SIEM and SOAR platforms, including experience building detections, dashboards, and automated workflows.\n\n - Deep understanding of EDR and XDR platforms, endpoint security hardening, and telemetry collection across macOS, Linux, Windows, and server environments.\n\n - Experience implementing or supporting zero trust architectures, including conditional access, SASE, CASB, and identity-driven access control models.\n\n - Familiarity with IAM and SSO systems such as Okta, Google Workspace, and FreeIPA and the ability to design secure identity, access, and authentication policies.\n\n - Strong networking knowledge, including SDWAN, VPN, IDS and IPS, firewall administration, segmentation strategy, and monitoring of network traffic for anomalies.\n\n - Hands-on experience managing or building security telemetry pipelines, log ingestion frameworks, or observability systems that support both structured and unstructured data.\n\n - Solid understanding of threat modeling, the MITRE ATT and CK framework, attacker tradecraft, and common detection and response patterns.\n\n - Experience performing vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, or secure configuration reviews and collaborating with teams to remediate identified risks.\n\n - Exposure to cloud and hybrid environments such as AWS, GCP, or on-prem clusters and the ability to evaluate risks and implement protective controls across these environments.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with generous premium coverage\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"6c60c888-1b0e-4fc8-b78a-31b9c994a0f4","title":"Head of Performance Visibility","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-02-19T01:08:43.303+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/6c60c888-1b0e-4fc8-b78a-31b9c994a0f4","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/6c60c888-1b0e-4fc8-b78a-31b9c994a0f4/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary
We are hiring a Head of Performance Visibility to define how performance is understood across next-generation AI accelerator systems.

Our ML accelerator platform spans custom silicon, supercomputing software, compiler stacks, runtime libraries, and distributed inference environments. Performance at this scale is no longer a device-level question — it is a high-performance distributed system problem. You will define the performance metrics that connect raw hardware signals to distributed workload context, ML cluster dynamics, pod communication patterns, and emergent bottlenecks.

This role requires more than telemetry. You will establish new abstractions, structured counter ontologies, cross-layer event correlation frameworks, distributed time-alignment strategies, and scalable reasoning systems operating across nodes, racks, and clusters. Working at the intersection of hardware design, driver architecture, runtime systems, and ML infrastructure, you will shape how these layers expose and consume performance intelligence. This is a foundational role defining not just tooling, but how our platform reasons about efficiency, scalability, and system behavior for years to come.

Key Responsibilities besides Mentorship and Leadership
System-Level Performance Design

Cross-Layer Event Correlation

Telemetry & Counter Modeling

Distributed Performance Reasoning

Tooling & Insight Delivery

You may be a good fit if you have

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\nWe are hiring a Head of Performance Visibility to define how performance is understood across next-generation AI accelerator systems.\n\nOur ML accelerator platform spans custom silicon, supercomputing software, compiler stacks, runtime libraries, and distributed inference environments. Performance at this scale is no longer a device-level question — it is a high-performance distributed system problem. You will define the performance metrics that connect raw hardware signals to distributed workload context, ML cluster dynamics, pod communication patterns, and emergent bottlenecks.\n\nThis role requires more than telemetry. You will establish new abstractions, structured counter ontologies, cross-layer event correlation frameworks, distributed time-alignment strategies, and scalable reasoning systems operating across nodes, racks, and clusters. Working at the intersection of hardware design, driver architecture, runtime systems, and ML infrastructure, you will shape how these layers expose and consume performance intelligence. This is a foundational role defining not just tooling, but how our platform reasons about efficiency, scalability, and system behavior for years to come.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities besides Mentorship and Leadership\nSystem-Level Performance Design\n\n - Define the architectural approach for collecting and structuring telemetry across CPUs, drivers, interconnects, and multiple accelerators\n\n - Design scalable models for correlating performance events across device and host boundaries\n\nCross-Layer Event Correlation\n\n - Develop mechanisms to align hardware counters, runtime activity, communication phases, and workload semantics across model-layer execution into coherent, actionable insight\n\n - Implement time synchronization and trace-alignment strategies across multi-device systems\n\nTelemetry & Counter Modeling\n\n - Define structured counter taxonomies separating base signals from derived metrics\n\n - Design derived performance models bridging low-level hardware signals and workload-level behavior\n\n - Influence instrumentation strategy for future hardware generations\n\nDistributed Performance Reasoning\n\n - Build tools that identify bottlenecks among multi-accelerator workloads across chips within hosts\n\n - Build cluster-scale performance analysis for distributed inference across data center networks\n\nTooling & Insight Delivery\n\n - Contribute to analysis engines and developer-facing tooling that transform raw telemetry into intuitive insight\n\n - Shape how performance intelligence is surfaced to engineers debugging large-scale AI systems\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Deep experience building complex systems at the intersection of hardware and software\n\n - Personally envisioned and built significant portions of profiling, tracing, or observability systems — not solely defined requirements or product strategy\n\n - Demonstrated ability to translate raw hardware signals into scalable, production-grade telemetry and analysis infrastructure\n\n - Experience correlating time-series events across distributed systems\n\n - Deep systems programming expertise (C++ or Rust), with a track record of shipping low-level infrastructure operating close to hardware or runtime systems\n\n - Experience designing distributed correlation mechanisms, timestamp-alignment strategies, or performance modeling frameworks across multiple devices or hosts\n\n - Experience designing distributed tracing or observability platforms at scale\n\n - Experience with high-performance computing systems and large AI training clusters\n\n - Experience with timestamp synchronization strategies and event alignment in distributed environments\n\n - Experience with hardware counter design and instrumentation strategy\n\n - Experience with performance modeling for large-scale ML workloads\n\n - Experience leading cross-functional architectural initiatives spanning hardware and software teams\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"ce683632-421a-4ef9-8664-b253356969a3","title":"SI/PI Intern","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-10T08:13:02.307+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ce683632-421a-4ef9-8664-b253356969a3","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ce683632-421a-4ef9-8664-b253356969a3/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

As a Signal Integrity / Power Integrity Intern, you will help design and validate the next generation of high-performance AI systems. You will work closely with package, PCB, ASIC, and system engineers to analyze high-speed interfaces, extract channel models, and improve signal quality across our accelerator platforms.

This role provides hands-on experience with industry-leading tools and real-world challenges involving PCIe, Ethernet, high-speed SerDes channels, advanced packaging, and multi-board systems.

Key Responsibilities

Representative Projects

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

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

Program details

For any questions, contact internships@etched.com.

 

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs a Signal Integrity / Power Integrity Intern, you will help design and validate the next generation of high-performance AI systems. You will work closely with package, PCB, ASIC, and system engineers to analyze high-speed interfaces, extract channel models, and improve signal quality across our accelerator platforms.\n\nThis role provides hands-on experience with industry-leading tools and real-world challenges involving PCIe, Ethernet, high-speed SerDes channels, advanced packaging, and multi-board systems.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Signal Integrity Analysis\n\n - Perform channel analysis for high-speed interfaces including PCIe, Ethernet, and other SerDes links. Extract and validate S-parameter models from package and PCB layouts. Analyze insertion loss, return loss, impedance discontinuities, and crosstalk. Generate channel compliance reports and support design reviews. Modeling & Simulation\n\n - Build and validate 3D electromagnetic models using Ansys HFSS. Develop board and package channel models from ECAD design databases. Correlate simulation results with measurements and lab data. Support mixed package-board channel simulations and optimization.\n\n - Partner with PCB layout, package, hardware, and ASIC teams to improve signal integrity. Identify root causes of channel degradation and propose design improvements. Contribute to SI design guidelines and best practices. \n \n \n\nRepresentative Projects\n\n - Extracting S-parameter models from package and board designs for PCIe channels.\n\n - Building HFSS models of high-speed breakout regions and BGA transitions.\n\n - Performing channel compliance analysis for Ethernet links.\n\n - Investigating impedance discontinuities and optimizing via structures.\n\n - Developing automated workflows for SI simulation and report generation.\n \n \n\nYou May Be a Good Fit If You Have\n\n - Progress toward a BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.\n\n - Coursework or project experience in signal integrity, electromagnetics, RF, microwave engineering, or high-speed digital design.\n\n - Familiarity with transmission line theory and S-parameters.\n\n - Understanding of PCB stackups, routing, and high-speed design fundamentals.\n\n - Strong analytical and debugging skills.\n\n - Excellent communication and collaboration skills.\n\n - Strong Candidates May Also Have\n\n - Experience with Ansys HFSS, SIwave, ADS, CST, or similar simulation tools.\n\n - Experience with PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, or other high-speed interfaces.\n\n - Familiarity with Allegro, APD, ODB++, IPC2581, or other ECAD databases.\n\n - Experience processing Touchstone files and channel metrics.\n\n - Python scripting for simulation automation and data analysis.\n\n - Experience with laboratory measurements using VNAs, oscilloscopes, or TDR equipment.\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification.\n\n\n\nProgram details\n\n - 12-week paid internship\n\n - Generous housing support for those relocating\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Based at our office in San Jose, CA\n\n - Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers\n\n - Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time\n\n\n\nFor any questions, contact internships@etched.com. internships@etched.com\n\n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"4856eedb-4f39-42b7-927d-c8e0b880b53a","title":"Electrical Engineering Technician","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-24T03:08:01.082+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/4856eedb-4f39-42b7-927d-c8e0b880b53a","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/4856eedb-4f39-42b7-927d-c8e0b880b53a/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary
We're looking for a hands-on Electrical Engineering Technician to support our hardware development and validation efforts. In this role, you'll own the execution of electrical test procedures, maintain rigorous documentation standards, and keep our lab environments running smoothly across multiple concurrent projects. You'll work closely with hardware engineers to ensure data integrity and help us move fast without cutting corners.

Key Responsibilities

Must-Have Qualifications

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

Benefits

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 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\nWe're looking for a hands-on Electrical Engineering Technician to support our hardware development and validation efforts. In this role, you'll own the execution of electrical test procedures, maintain rigorous documentation standards, and keep our lab environments running smoothly across multiple concurrent projects. You'll work closely with hardware engineers to ensure data integrity and help us move fast without cutting corners.\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Set up, calibrate, and operate electrical test equipment — including oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, and signal analyzers — in accordance with established test procedures\n\n - Collect, record, and validate electrical measurement data, maintaining accurate and traceable documentation for analysis and quality assurance\n\n - Monitor live test runs and equipment performance, identifying anomalies and troubleshooting issues to maintain test integrity and minimize downtime\n\n - Prepare test benches, fixtures, and lab environments to support scheduled hardware experiments across multiple concurrent projects\n\n - Organize and maintain lab logs, test databases, and results reports, communicating findings clearly to hardware engineers and project teams\n\n - Enforce lab safety procedures and compliance standards while managing equipment maintenance, inventory, and calibration schedules\n\n\n\nMust-Have Qualifications\n\n - Hands-on experience executing electrical test procedures, including bench setup, instrument calibration, and operation of standard EE lab equipment\n\n - Strong data collection and documentation habits — accurate, traceable measurement records are second nature to you\n\n - Ability to monitor live electrical tests, catch signal irregularities or out-of-spec behavior early, and troubleshoot quickly to minimize downtime\n\n - Experience preparing test benches and hardware fixtures across multiple concurrent projects\n\n - Comfort organizing and maintaining lab logs, databases, and test reports for a cross-functional engineering audience\n\n\n\nNice-to-Have Qualifications\n\n - Familiarity with lab safety compliance and managing EE equipment maintenance, inventory, and calibration schedules\n\n - Exposure to PCB bring-up, power rail validation, or digital/analog signal characterization\n\n - Experience with scripted test automation (Python, LabVIEW, or similar)\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\n\nWe 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.\n"},{"id":"06398761-0950-4e5c-8590-26f485ba5509","title":"Technical Recruiter (Entry Level)","department":"People","team":"People","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-02T04:55:14.205+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/06398761-0950-4e5c-8590-26f485ba5509","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/06398761-0950-4e5c-8590-26f485ba5509/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Technical Recruiter – Entry Level

This role is for someone early in their career who is hungry to learn and ready to take ownership. You'll be mentored by experienced recruiters and work closely with hiring managers and leadership but you'll also have your own roles to run and candidates to find. The learning curve is real, and so is the role and your responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

What You'll Get

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nTechnical Recruiter – Entry Level\n\nThis role is for someone early in their career who is hungry to learn and ready to take ownership. You'll be mentored by experienced recruiters and work closely with hiring managers and leadership but you'll also have your own roles to run and candidates to find. The learning curve is real, and so is the role and your responsibility.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own your own requisitions end-to-end - sourcing, screening, coordinating, closing\n\n - Hunt candidates in places most recruiters never look: GitHub, arXiv preprints, Apache mailing lists, niche Discord servers, conference speaker lists or phd scraping\n\n - Run structured interview coordination and lead candidate debriefs alongside hiring managers\n\n - Work directly with the lead recruiters on offer strategy and closing\n\n - Help us build our recruiting systems and processes from the ground up - your fingerprints will be on how we hire\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - Have 0–2 years of recruiting, sales, sourcing, or talent coordination experience (or have taught yourself and can show the work) but you have a strong interest in grow into this field\n\n - A track record that goes beyond the classroom: clubs, side projects, sports, volunteering, or anything that shows you invest in things you care about\n\n - Are genuinely curious about AI, hardware, or deep tech - you don't need to be an engineer, but you get excited by it\n\n - Move fast, figure things out, and ask for help when you're stuck\n\n - Have low ego and high drive - you care about the outcome more than the credit\n\n - Can have real conversations with technical people without faking it\n\n - Are coachable - you want feedback and actually use it\n \n\nWhat You'll Get\n\n - Mentorship from experienced recruiters and direct exposure to senior leadership\n\n - A front-row seat at a company building transformative technology\n\n - Real ownership, real responsibility, real growth — fast\n\n - Competitive compensation that reflects your commitment\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"07b00790-2817-4863-a330-b0caf2322460","title":"Formal Verification - DV","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-10T08:41:47.749+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/07b00790-2817-4863-a330-b0caf2322460","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/07b00790-2817-4863-a330-b0caf2322460/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Formal Verification Engineer to join our ASIC Design Verification team. You will drive formal verification across the custom IP, interface IP, and SoC subsystems that power our ASICs, including compute arrays, DMA engines, NoCs, memory systems, PCIe, Ethernet, CPU subsystems, low-power peripherals, and vendor IP wrappers. You will work closely with architects, RTL designers, DV engineers, emulation teams, and software/firmware teams to prove design correctness, expose deep corner-case bugs, and improve verification closure across the full chip.

Key Responsibilities

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience With

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a Formal Verification Engineer to join our ASIC Design Verification team. You will drive formal verification across the custom IP, interface IP, and SoC subsystems that power our ASICs, including compute arrays, DMA engines, NoCs, memory systems, PCIe, Ethernet, CPU subsystems, low-power peripherals, and vendor IP wrappers. You will work closely with architects, RTL designers, DV engineers, emulation teams, and software/firmware teams to prove design correctness, expose deep corner-case bugs, and improve verification closure across the full chip.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Define and drive formal verification strategy across the ASIC DV team for complex IP blocks, interface subsystems, and SoC integration logic.\n\n - Develop formal verification plans covering functional correctness, connectivity, ordering, reset behavior, configuration legality, and deadlock/livelock freedom.\n\n - Build reusable formal environments using SystemVerilog Assertions, assumptions, constraints, checkers, cut-points, abstraction models, and reference models.\n\n - Drive proof convergence using abstractions, cut-points, assume-guarantee reasoning, cover properties, bounded-proof analysis, and coverage metrics to establish formal sign-off confidence.\n\n - Work with architects and RTL designers to translate design intent and specifications into high-value formal properties and closure criteria.\n\n - Partner with UVM DV, emulation, software, and firmware teams to align formal verification with simulation, coverage, regressions, and bring-up.\n\n - Debug complex RTL, protocol, datapath, connectivity, and integration bugs using formal counterexamples, waveforms, and design analysis.\n\n - Contribute to formal sign-off methodology, regression automation, reporting, and design-for-formal best practices.\n\n\n\nYou May Be a Good Fit If You Have\n\n - 5+ years of design verification experience, including significant hands-on formal verification experience on complex digital designs or shipping silicon.\n\n - Strong proficiency with SystemVerilog, SystemVerilog Assertions, and formal verification methodology.\n\n - Experience with commercial formal tools such as Cadence JasperGold, Synopsys VC Formal, or Siemens Questa Formal.\n\n - Strong understanding of digital design, computer architecture, datapaths, interconnects, memory systems, and standard SoC interfaces.\n\n - Ability to model complex design behavior using assumptions, abstractions, constraints, cut-points, checkers, and reference models.\n\n - Strong debugging skills across RTL, specifications, formal counterexamples, simulation waveforms, and verification reports.\n\n - Experience collaborating across architecture, RTL design, UVM DV, emulation, software, firmware, and vendor teams.\n\n - You thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and can take ownership of ambiguous, high-impact verification problems.\n \n \n\nStrong Candidates May Also Have Experience With\n\n - Formal verification of systolic arrays, DMA engines, NoCs, memory subsystems, arithmetic datapaths, PCIe, Ethernet, AXI/AMBA, CPU interfaces, or low-power controllers.\n\n - Protocol compliance checking, connectivity checking, register verification, datapath validation, reset verification, or deadlock/livelock analysis.\n\n - Vendor IP integration, encrypted or black-box IP verification, VIP configuration, and contract-based verification around subsystem boundaries.\n\n - Sequential LEC, floating-point or integer arithmetic proofs, cache coherency checks, interrupt handling, or memory-mapped IO verification.\n\n - Scripting in Python, TCL, Perl, or similar for automation, regression management, debug, and dashboarding.\n\n - \n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"5f1f5739-3b58-467c-b351-ff183c94d96d","title":"DFT Intern","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"Intern","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-13T20:43:36.377+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/5f1f5739-3b58-467c-b351-ff183c94d96d","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/5f1f5739-3b58-467c-b351-ff183c94d96d/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

As a DFT Intern at Etched, you will help review and refine DFT flow automation to support chip-level regression on Caelius. You will work across frontend and backend design teams, contribute to DFT verification (including MBIST, Scan, BSCAN, and SSN simulations), and develop flows for various ATPG fault models. You do not necessarily need prior DFT experience; just the ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment. We are looking for Summer '26, Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

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

Program details

For any questions, contact internships@etched.com.

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs a DFT Intern at Etched, you will help review and refine DFT flow automation to support chip-level regression on Caelius. You will work across frontend and backend design teams, contribute to DFT verification (including MBIST, Scan, BSCAN, and SSN simulations), and develop flows for various ATPG fault models. You do not necessarily need prior DFT experience; just the ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment. We are looking for Summer '26, Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Progress towards a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.\n\n - Familiarity with a hardware description language (Verilog or SystemVerilog)\n\n - Exposure to ASIC or SoC design concepts\n\n - Familiarity with digital logic design fundamentals\n\n - Familiarity with standard ASIC design flow steps (synthesis, STA, DFT)\n\n - Familiarity with scripting in Python, Tcl, or another language\n\n - Are able to learn quickly about transformers and other aspects of modern artificial intelligence\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Knowledge of DFT concepts such as MBIST, scan insertion, and scan compression\n\n - Experience with Tessent or similar DFT tooling\n\n - Familiarity with ATPG fault models (SAF, TDF, BDF, IDDQ, PDF)\n\n - Exposure to DFT flow automation or regression infrastructure\n\n - Familiarity with clocking and reset schemes\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.\n\n\n\nProgram details\n\n - 12-week paid internship\n\n - Generous housing support for those relocating\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Based at our office in San Jose, CA\n\n - Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers\n\n - Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time\n\n\n\nFor any questions, contact internships@etched.com.\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"6f4df530-6d67-4df9-903c-645c20e84845","title":"Design Verification Engineer - Interface IP","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Austin","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-16T02:28:44.778+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":""}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/6f4df530-6d67-4df9-903c-645c20e84845","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/6f4df530-6d67-4df9-903c-645c20e84845/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Interface IP DV team. You will work with architects, designers, and vendors to ensure that all our architecture requirements are met in the IP subsystems and interfaces being created, validate correctness and performance across the full hardware-software stack. This role demands creativity, deep technical ability, and the drive to tackle complex verification challenges.

Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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 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.

This role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Interface IP DV team. You will work with architects, designers, and vendors to ensure that all our architecture requirements are met in the IP subsystems and interfaces being created, validate correctness and performance across the full hardware-software stack. This role demands creativity, deep technical ability, and the drive to tackle complex verification challenges.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - End to end ownership of one or more of the following IP subsystems: PCIe, Ethernet, CPU (arc/arm), low power peripherals, sensors\n\n - Understand vendor IP configurations and handle handshake with internal IP team\n\n - Develop and maintain UVM/SystemVerilog-based verification environments to ensure functional correctness, performance, and compliance with IP specifications.\n\n - Collaborate with integration and SoC DV teams to validate seamless interaction of external IPs within the broader chip architecture.\n\n - Drive coverage closure and sign-off by defining metrics, analyzing gaps, and ensuring comprehensive verification across corner cases and stress scenarios.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 5+ years of design verification experience\n\n - You enjoy digging deep into complex verification challenges and finding creative ways to expose corner-case bugs.\n\n - You have hands-on experience with industry-standard verification methodologies like SystemVerilog/UVM and understand how to build scalable, reusable testbenches.\n\n - You are comfortable working with standard IP interfaces and protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet, AXI/AMBA, or ARM/ARC CPUs.\n\n - You thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and can take ownership of projects with minimal direction.\n\n - You collaborate naturally with cross-functional teams — from RTL design to software and emulation — and can clearly communicate technical insights.\n \n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with \n\n - Experience handling vendors and integration of IP/VIP’s\n\n - UVM/System Verilog\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\nWe 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.\n\nThis role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration."},{"id":"77f0497f-086e-4d89-bbcd-bac7a79bf9a1","title":"Design Verification Engineer - Internal IP","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Austin","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-16T02:34:19.470+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":""}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/77f0497f-086e-4d89-bbcd-bac7a79bf9a1","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/77f0497f-086e-4d89-bbcd-bac7a79bf9a1/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Internal IP DV team. 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.

Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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 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.

This role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Internal IP DV team. 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.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Develop and maintain UVM/SystemVerilog testbenches for high-performance IPs (compute arrays, DMAs, NoCs, memory subsystems).\n\n - Define and execute verification plans covering functional correctness, corner cases, concurrency, and performance bottlenecks.\n\n - Debug complex datapath and protocol issues in RTL and testbench environments.\n\n - Work closely with architects and designers to validate functionality and design intent.\n\n - Partner with SW, FW, and emulation teams to ensure end-to-end bring-up and debug coverage.\n\n - Contribute to reusable DV infrastructure, coverage models, and methodology improvements.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Proficiency with UVM and SystemVerilog.\n\n - Strong debugging and problem-solving skills for complex digital designs.\n\n - Solid knowledge of computer architecture and digital design fundamentals.\n\n - Hands-on experience verifying datapaths, memory systems, interconnects, or high-throughput fabrics.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Familiarity with SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) and formal verification techniques.\n\n - Experience verifying systolic arrays, DMA engines, or NoC/AXI protocols.\n\n - Scripting skills (Python/Perl/TCL or similar) for automation, debug and regression flows.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\nWe 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.\n\nThis role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration."},{"id":"33adf31c-e0ad-4080-bb83-1b3859f95d35","title":"Design Verification Engineer - SoC","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Austin","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-16T02:39:09.866+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":""}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/33adf31c-e0ad-4080-bb83-1b3859f95d35","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/33adf31c-e0ad-4080-bb83-1b3859f95d35/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Systems/Performance Verification team. 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.

Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Benefits

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 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.

This role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a Design Verification Engineer to join our Systems/Performance Verification team. 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.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Work closely with architects and RTL designers on verifying the performance features of the design and correlating with performance models (both pre-silicon and post-silicon).\n\n - Work closely with software and application developers on identifying performance bottlenecks and tuning the software.\n\n - Develop test plans and test infrastructure/tools for performance tuning, correlation, and verification.\n\n - Improve and maintain the architectural performance models.\n\n - Develop tests in SystemVerilog, Python, or vectors to debug and correlate the RTL and performance model.\n\n - Develop SystemVerilog or Python-based checkers for verifying the performance features.\n\n - Develop coverage monitors and analyze coverage to ensure all performance features are covered.\n\n - Debug performance issues and conduct performance tuning on silicon.\n\n - Drive end-to-end performance tuning, ensuring optimal hardware utilization, software efficiency, and architectural alignment across the ASIC design lifecycle.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Strong understanding of digital design, RTL, and ASIC design flows.\n\n - Hands-on experience with performance verification, simulation, and modeling.\n\n - Comfortable developing checkers, coverage monitors, and testbenches in SystemVerilog.\n\n - Skilled in writing Python scripts for automation, data analysis, and performance modeling.\n\n - Experience building and maintaining performance models for chip subsystems.\n\n - Understanding of memory hierarchies, pipelines, interconnects, and compute accelerators.\n\n - Familiarity with performance bottleneck analysis, compiler optimizations, and workload tuning\n\n - Some exposure to kernel level performance metrics and profiling tools.\n \n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\nWe 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.\n\nThis role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration."},{"id":"e194099a-b7c0-4aa7-9e6d-06a666de6275","title":"Physical Design Engineer","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Austin","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-16T02:44:31.906+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":""}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/e194099a-b7c0-4aa7-9e6d-06a666de6275","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/e194099a-b7c0-4aa7-9e6d-06a666de6275/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Etched is looking for exceptional Physical Design engineers to join our team. In this role, you
will own block-level implementation and verification, drive timing closure and PPA optimization, supervise 3rd party design work, and help improve our design flows and iteration speed.


Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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 greatly value engineering skills. We do not have strict boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.

This role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is looking for exceptional Physical Design engineers to join our team. In this role, you\nwill own block-level implementation and verification, drive timing closure and PPA optimization, supervise 3rd party design work, and help improve our design flows and iteration speed.\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Deeply understand what is involved in physical design\n\n - Running PD flows to close blocks, support ASIC infrastructure, automate PD flows,\n improve CAD infrastructure\n\n - Collaborate with RTL Designers and provide Physical Design feedback to improve PPA\n\n - Drive dashboards that show the convergence of projects related to PD\n\n - Optimize tool flows, working with EDA vendors to incorporate the latest features\n\n - Accountable for block level closure\n\n - Supervise the outsourcing of physical design to a 3rd party service\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 5-10+ years of previous experience with PD\n\n - Tools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off\n\n - Experience with back-end design and timing closure on advanced process nodes (5nm\n and below)\n\n - Experience with Cadence (Innovus, Genus) or Synopsys (ICC2, Fusion Compiler)\n automated RTL-to-GDSII flows\n\n - Experience with sign-off tools (PrimeTime, Tempus, Voltus, etc.)\n\n - Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology, power verification,synthesis, scan insertion/ATPG, formal verification, floorplanning, placement, CTS,\n routing, IR drop, and EM/antenna analysis\n\n - Deeply creative and able to think from first principles\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures\n\n - Ability to program with Python or another scripting language\n\n - Familiarity with AI tools for programming/coding\n\n - Startup experience or comfort working in fast-paced environments\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\nWe greatly value engineering skills. We do not have strict boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.\n\nThis role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration."},{"id":"72c473ba-be0f-47ea-a2bd-82eb2b30967d","title":"Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-17T00:36:52.565+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/72c473ba-be0f-47ea-a2bd-82eb2b30967d","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/72c473ba-be0f-47ea-a2bd-82eb2b30967d/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

As our Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure you will own end-to-end program delivery across the org — driving alignment between internal teams, managing external vendor relationships, and ensuring that every dependency, risk, and milestone is visible to the people who need to act on it. You'll establish the KPIs and operational cadences that keep programs on track, and continuously refine our processes to make the entire Infrastructure organization faster and more effective.

You'll be the connective tissue between engineering and leadership — translating technical complexity into clear status, surfacing risks before they become blockers, and facilitating resolution of the cross-disciplinary issues that emerge at the intersection of ASIC design, hardware platforms, and software integration. When priorities shift, you don't just adapt — you help the organization navigate the shift without losing momentum.

This role demands deep technical fluency alongside exceptional organizational and communication skills. You're not just tracking tasks — you're building the program management foundation that lets world-class engineers move at the pace Etched needs to win.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have:

Strong candidates may also have experience with:

Benefits

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 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 and work across disciplines as needed.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs our Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure you will own end-to-end program delivery across the org — driving alignment between internal teams, managing external vendor relationships, and ensuring that every dependency, risk, and milestone is visible to the people who need to act on it. You'll establish the KPIs and operational cadences that keep programs on track, and continuously refine our processes to make the entire Infrastructure organization faster and more effective.\n\nYou'll be the connective tissue between engineering and leadership — translating technical complexity into clear status, surfacing risks before they become blockers, and facilitating resolution of the cross-disciplinary issues that emerge at the intersection of ASIC design, hardware platforms, and software integration. When priorities shift, you don't just adapt — you help the organization navigate the shift without losing momentum.\n\nThis role demands deep technical fluency alongside exceptional organizational and communication skills. You're not just tracking tasks — you're building the program management foundation that lets world-class engineers move at the pace Etched needs to win.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Drive collaboration across our Infrastructure org, including DevOps/DevX, Core Engineering, Security and IT.\n\n - Partner with external vendors to ensure any external services are being delivered on time and meet quality standards.\n\n - Identify risks proactively and develop mitigation strategies to minimize impact on project timelines and quality.\n\n - Optimize engineering and operational efficiency by continuously refining program management processes.\n\n - Foster a culture of accountability and transparency by regularly communicating with executive and engineering leaders on project status, risks, and opportunities.\n\n - Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor progress, success, and strategic alignment.\n\n - Leverage technical understanding of hardware, ASIC, and software integration to facilitate cross-disciplinary communication and resolution of technical issues.\n\n - Operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities and emerging challenges.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have:\n\n - 8-10+ years of experience in technical program management, ideally in hardware, semiconductor, or AI technology environments.\n\n - A PMP certification with a demonstrated track record of delivering complex, cross-functional projects.\n\n - Strong technical knowledge in ASIC design, hardware platforms, and software integration.\n\n - Excellent organizational, communication, and leadership skills that influence without authority.\n\n - A proactive approach to identifying risks and opportunities for process improvement.\n\n - Experience using program management tools and methodologies such as Google Workspace and JIRA.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with:\n\n - A bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline (advanced degree preferred).\n\n - Managing and nurturing external vendor and supplier relationships.\n\n - Implementing best practices in program delivery to drive operational performance improvements.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row) 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 and work across disciplines as needed."},{"id":"0e70938e-685a-46e9-98a5-8ec3198d92cc","title":"Network Security Engineer","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-25T23:58:28.230+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/0e70938e-685a-46e9-98a5-8ec3198d92cc","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/0e70938e-685a-46e9-98a5-8ec3198d92cc/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Etched's infrastructure spans some of the most sensitive compute environments in the industry: bare-metal HPC clusters running proprietary ASIC workloads, hybrid on-prem/cloud deployments, and internal toolchains that house irreplaceable chip design IP. As we scale from early silicon to production, securing these environments is foundational — not an afterthought.

As our first dedicated Network Security Engineer, you will own the design and implementation of Etched's network security posture end to end. You'll work alongside the infrastructure team to harden our physical and virtual networks, enforce least-privilege access to chip design environments, and build the detection and response capabilities that keep our most sensitive assets safe.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to shape security architecture at a company building the compute infrastructure for the next decade of AI — not maintain someone else's stack.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched's infrastructure spans some of the most sensitive compute environments in the industry: bare-metal HPC clusters running proprietary ASIC workloads, hybrid on-prem/cloud deployments, and internal toolchains that house irreplaceable chip design IP. As we scale from early silicon to production, securing these environments is foundational — not an afterthought.\n\nAs our first dedicated Network Security Engineer, you will own the design and implementation of Etched's network security posture end to end. You'll work alongside the infrastructure team to harden our physical and virtual networks, enforce least-privilege access to chip design environments, and build the detection and response capabilities that keep our most sensitive assets safe.\n\nThis is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to shape security architecture at a company building the compute infrastructure for the next decade of AI — not maintain someone else's stack.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Design and implement a zero-trust network architecture across on-prem datacenters, multiple office locations, and multi-cloud platforms, including secure remote access that eliminates VPN sprawl without sacrificing engineer usability and speed\n\n - Define and enforce network segmentation policies that isolate sensitive ASIC development workflows from general infrastructure, customer access, validation labs, and manufacturing infrastructure\n\n - Balancing prevention and detection, deploy, tune, and operate NDR, IDS/IPS, and next-generation firewalls across our physical and virtual network fabric; build automation to continuously assess and enforce firewall rules, ACLs, and routing policies - treating network security configuration as code\n\n - Integrate and operate EDR/XDR, MDM/MAM, SASE, and CASB tooling in partnership with end-user and IT teams, enforcing unified DLP policies and device compliance posture across endpoint, cloud, and network control planes to eliminate data exfiltration risk\n\n - Own our vulnerability management process for network-layer exposure: scanning, prioritization, and remediation tracking in partnership with infrastructure engineers\n\n - Lead incident response for network-layer security events: detection, containment, root-cause analysis, and post-incident hardening\n\n - Partner with legal, compliance, and leadership to support regulatory requirements and customer security reviews as they arise\n\n - Architect and deploy network segmentation for our HPC clusters, isolating EDA tool traffic, ASIC simulation workloads, and CI pipelines from each other and from the corporate network\n\n - Architect and deploy a ZTNA-based corporate network that eliminates VPN sprawl and ensures end-user devices maintain a consistent security posture and seamless access to sensitive development environments - whether engineers are on-site, remote, or traveling - replacing location-dependent trust with continuous identity and device health verification\n\n - Design and implement a scalable NDR pipeline that ingests flow data across bare-metal switches and cloud VPCs, feeds a centralized SIEM, and generates actionable alerts with low false-positive rates\n\n - Develop runbooks and automated playbooks for the highest-probability incident scenarios - credential compromise, lateral movement, and exfiltration from IP-sensitive environments\n\n - Integrate EDR/XDR telemetry with SASE enforcement and CASB inline controls to build a unified DLP detection and response pipeline spanning endpoints, cloud SaaS, and the corporate network\n\n - Partner with end-user and IT teams to roll out MDM/MAM policies that containerize sensitive IP on engineer devices and enforce compliance-based conditional access across managed and unmanaged environments\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - Bring deep, broad networking expertise - from low-level packet analysis and firewall log forensics to BGP configuration, multi-cloud networking, and CASB/SASE integration across a diverse SaaS landscape\n\n - Have hands-on experience with the Fortinet ecosystem - firewalls, FortiSASE, FortiAPs, and switches - and are comfortable with Arista switch platforms, including configuration, EOS automation, and integration into a broader security architecture\n\n - Treat security as an engineering discipline: you write code and automation rather than relying on point-and-click tooling, version-control your configurations, and develop intent-driven network automation\n\n - Have experience securing high-value compute environments - datacenters, HPC clusters, semiconductor design environments, or similar settings where the cost of a breach is extremely high\n\n - Have deployed and integrated EDR/XDR, MDM/MAM, SASE, and CASB tooling, and understand how to stitch them together into a unified DLP and access control framework that spans endpoints, cloud, and the network\n\n - Have built or operated ZTNA-based access models and understand how to enforce consistent security posture across on-site, remote, and traveling users without degrading the experience for engineers\n\n - Are comfortable owning your domain with minimal oversight: you can independently scope a project, identify the right tooling, and drive it to completion\n\n - Have strong Linux fundamentals and understand how OS-level networking (iptables/nftables, network namespaces, eBPF) interacts with physical and virtual network security controls\n\n - Have built or operated network security monitoring at scale - you know the difference between a good alert and noise, and you can architect a detection pipeline that surfaces real signal\n\n - Can communicate risk clearly to both technical peers and non-technical leadership, and can translate security requirements into actionable infrastructure changes\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience with EDA environments or semiconductor IP security\n\n - Familiarity with cloud-native network security controls on AWS, GCP, or Azure (security groups, VPC flow logs, cloud firewalls, CSPM)\n\n - Background in or exposure to NIST, SOC 2, or ISO 27001 frameworks\n\n - Experience with eBPF-based network observability and security tooling\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we're different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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.\n\n"},{"id":"901d78ff-b9aa-4fc7-baea-604e5d9638d3","title":"Power Systems Design Engineer","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-27T21:38:18.176+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/901d78ff-b9aa-4fc7-baea-604e5d9638d3","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/901d78ff-b9aa-4fc7-baea-604e5d9638d3/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Power Supply Integration Engineer

We are seeking a Power Systems Design Engineer to join our team and contribute to the development of advanced power solutions for high-power processors. As a Power Systems Design Engineer at Etched, you will be pivotal in designing, selecting, and qualifying power supply solutions to meet extremely high power demands for processors. You will work closely with power supply vendors and leverage your expertise in multi-phase power solutions, 48V input conversion, and power loss analysis to ensure optimal performance and reliability. Your role will also involve helping with large BGA (Ball Grid Array) power development and conducting thorough PCB IR drop and power loss simulations.

Key Responsibilities

You maybe a good fit if you have

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

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nPower Supply Integration Engineer\n\nWe are seeking a Power Systems Design Engineer to join our team and contribute to the development of advanced power solutions for high-power processors. As a Power Systems Design Engineer at Etched, you will be pivotal in designing, selecting, and qualifying power supply solutions to meet extremely high power demands for processors. You will work closely with power supply vendors and leverage your expertise in multi-phase power solutions, 48V input conversion, and power loss analysis to ensure optimal performance and reliability. Your role will also involve helping with large BGA (Ball Grid Array) power development and conducting thorough PCB IR drop and power loss simulations.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Design and develop advanced power supply solutions to support extremely high power demands for processor applications. Ensure these solutions meet stringent performance, efficiency, and reliability requirements\n\n - Work closely with power supply vendors to select, design, and qualify components and solutions. Establish and maintain effective relationships to ensure alignment with design specifications and project goals\n\n - Demonstrate expertise in designing and implementing multi-phase power solutions for low-voltage processors, ensuring stable and efficient power delivery\n\n - Develop and optimize power conversion solutions from 48V input to the lower voltage outputs required by high-power processors, enhancing overall system performance\n\n - Conduct detailed PCB IR drop and power loss analysis, identifying and mitigating potential issues. Utilize simulation tools to validate and optimize power distribution networks\n\n - Assist in the design and development of power delivery systems for large BGA packages, ensuring proper power distribution and effective thermal management\n\n - Oversee the testing and validation of power supply designs, addressing issues related to performance, reliability, and manufacturing to ensure high-quality outcome\n\n - Create and maintain detailed design documentation, including schematics, layout files, and design specifications, ensuring clarity and precision in all aspects of the design process\n\n\n\nYou maybe a good fit if you have\n\n - A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field. Advanced degrees or certifications in power electronics or related areas are a plus\n\n - Bring at least 8 years of experience in power supply design, with a strong focus on high-power applications for processors. Proven expertise in multi-phase power solutions and 48V input conversion is essential\n\n - Expertise in designing and developing multi-phase power solutions for low-voltage processors\n\n - Experience with PCB IR drop analysis and power loss simulations.\n\n - Proficiency in 48V input conversion and power delivery systems\n\n - Knowledge of large BGA power development and thermal management.\n\n - Proficiency in power supply design tools and simulation software such as Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution from Cadence.\n\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"78bca8a9-69e9-4066-a14c-ae562bf98520","title":"Systems Validation Engineer, L10","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-27T21:48:45.534+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/78bca8a9-69e9-4066-a14c-ae562bf98520","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/78bca8a9-69e9-4066-a14c-ae562bf98520/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

You will be the L10 System Validation Engineer, defining what it means for the accelerator platform to be production-ready. You'll be responsible for building our Cluster Scale Memory subsystem and build the infrastructure to prove it. You'll personally drive the most critical issues from detection through root cause to verified fix.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

What success looks like

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nYou will be the L10 System Validation Engineer, defining what it means for the accelerator platform to be production-ready. You'll be responsible for building our Cluster Scale Memory subsystem and build the infrastructure to prove it. You'll personally drive the most critical issues from detection through root cause to verified fix.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Author and own the L10 system debug guide, serving as the definitive reference for factory failure analysis and debug teams.\n\n - Own end-to-end escalation, debug, and resolution of L10 hardware failures across internal and field teams\n\n - Develop and own L10 system debug guide to be used for the factory by the failure analysis / debug team.\n\n - Own bring-up and integration across accelerator cards, interconnects (Retimers, C2C fabric), power (PSU, power integrity), and thermal domains.\n\n - Lead system-level debug with no guaranteed starting point: hardware, firmware (BMC, BIOS, CPLD), and software all in scope simultaneously.\n\n - Partner directly with CMs to validate incomplete systems, close coverage gaps, and gate production ramp.\n\n - Build ad-hoc instrumentation, automation scripts, and debug workflows to extract signals from unstable, pre-spec systems.\n\n - Run sustained workloads using real model variants under thermal and power stress\n\n - Drive issue closure across cross-functional engineering teams: HW, FW, SW, thermal, power, and manufacturing.\n\n - Represent validation readiness to leadership with crisp, data-backed assessments\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - 10+ years in system validation, platform bring-up, or a tightly adjacent discipline — with direct, solo ownership of full L10 (tray/rack) integration on multi-component platforms.\n\n - Demonstrated hands-on signal integrity and power integrity debug: SerDes, PCIe Gen5/6, Ethernet, HBM signaling\n\n - Proven ability to build a coverage model that produces quantitative platform readiness metrics\n\n - Strong Linux and Python/Bash scripting — you should be comfortable writing tools to instrument, automate, and extract data from systems that aren't fully debuggable yet.\n\n - Occasional travel overseas to contract manufactures\n\n - Experience validating AI accelerator or high-performance compute platforms with accelerators, NVMe, high-speed interconnects, and complex power delivery.\n\n - Track record of detecting integration issues before they escape to production — in environments where specs, tooling, and infrastructure were still being built.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Familiarity with BMC/IPMI, UEFI/BIOS bring-up, and CPLD firmware debug.\n\n - Experience with HBM or CSRAM memory subsystem validation.\n\n - Background validating multi-rack or tray-level systems at hyperscaler or AI hardware company scale.\n\n - Exposure to large-model inference workloads as stress and coverage tools.\n\n - Prior work with ODM/CM partners (Pegatron, Foxconn, Wistron, or equivalent) in a validation or NPI capacity.\n\n\n\nWhat success looks like\n\n - Critical escapes to production are zero — not because nothing broke, but because you assumed everything would break and proved otherwise.\n\n - You created a structure where there was none: coverage models, automation, debug workflows, and RCA templates exist because you built them.\n\n - Platform stress runs are stable, repeatable, and instrument-verified under sustained thermal and power load.\n\n - Manufacturing partners have clear, data-driven pass/fail gates — and they trust the gates because you defined them.\n\n - Engineering leadership has a real-time, quantified view of platform readiness at every stage of ramp.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

 

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Supercomputing Software Engineer to join our team, responsible for the foundational software that powers our server infrastructure. This role focuses on the development, integration, and debugging of critical system software components, including BIOS, BMC firmware, boot processes (including NetBoot), root of trust implementations, advanced system logging, and kernel-mode drivers. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of our server platforms, and contribute to the integration of data center orchestration technologies at the node level.

 

Key Team Responsibilities

 

Representative Projects

 

You may be a good fit if you have

 

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

 

Benefits

 

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 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 and work across disciplines as needed.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n \n\nJob Summary:\n\nWe are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Supercomputing Software Engineer to join our team, responsible for the foundational software that powers our server infrastructure. This role focuses on the development, integration, and debugging of critical system software components, including BIOS, BMC firmware, boot processes (including NetBoot), root of trust implementations, advanced system logging, and kernel-mode drivers. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of our server platforms, and contribute to the integration of data center orchestration technologies at the node level.\n\n \n\nKey Team Responsibilities\n\n - Integrate and maintain BIOS and BMC firmware, ensuring robust and efficient server boot processes.\n\n - Analyze DRAM timings, PCIe configurations, power state transitions etc. to ensure high performance and maximal reliability.\n\n - Design and implement advanced system logging and diagnostic capabilities to facilitate efficient troubleshooting and performance analysis.\n\n - Integrate and optimize node-level data center orchestration technologies, such as Kubernetes and Docker, into the system software stack.\n\n - Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate system software functionality, stability, and performance.\n\n - Collaborate with hardware and software teams to diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues.\n\n - Validating security features, including root of trust mechanisms, to protect system integrity and data security.\n\n - Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).\n\n - Lead junior developers to unblock the complex tasks.\n\n \n\nRepresentative Projects\n\n - Design and implement advanced system logging and monitoring solutions.\n\n - Integrate node-level container orchestration capabilities into the system software.\n\n - Analyze and resolve complex system-level issues related to boot failures, hardware errors, and performance degradation.\n\n - Analyze and optimize system level logging for large scale server deployments.\n\n - Implement and validate secure boot processes, including root of trust verification.\n\n - Optimize BIOS and BMC firmware for high system performance, improved boot times and system stability.\n\n \n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 10+ years experience with C/C++ or Python.\n\n - 8+ years experience with BMC (AMI or OpenBMC) firmware development.\n\n - 5+ years experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).\n\n - Ability to analyze complex technical problems and provide effective solutions.\n\n - Experience with server boot processes.\n\n - Experience with CI/CD pipelines.\n\n - Experience with advanced system logging and diagnostic tools.\n\n - Experience with reading and interpreting hardware logs.\n\n - Strong understanding of operating systems (Linux preferred) and server hardware architectures.\n\n - Excellent communication and collaboration skills.\n\n - Knowledge of root-of-trust and security principles.\n\n \n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - 3+ years experience with leading role\n\n - Experience with BIOS firmware architectures.\n\n - Experience with OpenBMC development\n\n - Experience with data center orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).\n\n - Experience with tracing tools like perf, eBPF, ftrace, etc.\n\n - Experience with performance testing and benchmarking tools (gProf, vTune, Wireshark, etc.).\n\n - Experience with Rust.\n\n - Experience with kernel-mode driver development and debugging.\n\n \n\nBenefits\n\n - Competitive compensation packages, including generous equity packages\n\n - Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Power Validation Engineer to own the end-to-end power characterization of our ASIC and the mezzanine card platform — from early silicon bring-up through production qualification. You will design measurement methodology, build test benches, and drive findings directly into silicon, package, and system design decisions.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are looking for a Power Validation Engineer to own the end-to-end power characterization of our ASIC and the mezzanine card platform — from early silicon bring-up through production qualification. You will design measurement methodology, build test benches, and drive findings directly into silicon, package, and system design decisions.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Design and execute power measurement campaigns across all voltage rails (VDD_CORE, HBM, PCIe, AUX, etc) under realistic LLM inference and power virus workloads; characterize peak, sustained, and idle power envelopes across PVT corners and define derating curves used in system thermal and PDN specs\n\n - Validate power delivery network (PDN) performance — VRM load step response, PCIe power compliance, PDN impedance — and translate measurements into actionable feedback on capacitor placement, plane geometry, and de-cap strategy for PCB and package design teams\n\n - Profile power transient events (ramp rates, droop amplitudes, recovery profiles) and correlate them with on-die performance monitor data; build automated power sweep frameworks exercising the full inference workload space across model sizes, batch sizes, sequence lengths, and precision modes\n\n - Run extended stress workloads (72 h+ continuous) to surface reliability risks and throttling behavior; instrument multi-zone thermal profiles and support our overseas partners with SLT, production and debugging.\n\n - Validate power sequencing, PMBus telemetry accuracy, and BMC alert thresholds across cold-start, hot-restart, and fault-injection scenarios; own power-related pass/fail criteria across FAT, SFT, and RIN qualification stages\n\n - Feed characterization data back to RTL and physical design teams as input for DVFS policy, clock gating coverage, and leakage optimization; write precise validation reports that enable silicon and firmware teams to act without re-running experiments\n\n - Lead the electrical characterization, validation, and qualification process for the on-board system-level power distribution network, spanning from power converter design to ASIC power integrity validation.\n\n - Provide critical support to design engineers through debug, component validation, and failure analysis for released products, independently troubleshooting and determining the root cause of electrical component defects and design flaws.\n\n - Develop and implement automated/scripted test procedures for the general qualification and testing of Devices Under Test (DUTs) as part of a comprehensive automation suite.\n\n - Collect, analyze, and aggregate test data to support data-driven engineering decisions, generate reports on findings, reduce data sets, and thoroughly investigate test outcomes down to the hardware interface or component level.\n\n - Collaborate with hardware designers and diagnostics development teams to understand new project architectures and system components, ensuring the necessary support for testing and debug efforts is implemented.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field. Advanced degrees or certifications in power electronics or related areas are a plus\n\n - Deep understanding of ASIC and system-level power delivery — VRM topology, PDN impedance, decoupling strategy, and transient response — with hands-on bench experience using precision shunts, isolated differential probes, and VNA-based PDN impedance measurement\n\n - Expertise with multi-phase solutions with high dynamic content and low tolerance.\n\n - Experience with VR tuning to a well defined power test plan to ensure VR specifications meet CPU/ ASIC\n\n - Demonstrated ability to design experiments that isolate root cause in a complex hardware-software stack, strong oscilloscope and lab instrument fluency (triggering on rare transient events, correlating multi-channel captures), and a track record of finding bugs that only surface under specific workload or environmental conditions\n\n - Relevant experience with Silicon bring ups\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Masters Degree in Power Electronics\n\n - Experience with high voltage testing (800V and higher)\n\n - Prior power validation work on AI accelerators, GPUs, or high-performance server platforms, including HBM power characterization or memory power management interfaces\n\n - Experience with OpenBMC, IPMI, or custom BMC firmware for sensor monitoring and power capping; familiarity with LLM inference stacks (vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or similar) sufficient to construct representative power workloads\n\n - Proficiency in Python for test automation, data pipeline construction, and statistical analysis; experience debugging across the stack from PMBus register dumps and BMC sensor logs to firmware traces and Linux kernel power management\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. 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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.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (SI/PI) Engineer to join our platform electrical engineering team. In this role, you will own the SI/PI methodology for high-speed PCB and system designs — from early architecture through final release — ensuring electrical margins are met across interfaces running at multi-gigabit data rates.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are looking for a Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (SI/PI) Engineer to join our platform electrical engineering team. In this role, you will own the SI/PI methodology for high-speed PCB and system designs — from early architecture through final release — ensuring electrical margins are met across interfaces running at multi-gigabit data rates.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Perform pre- and post-layout SI simulations for high-speed serial interfaces including PCIe Gen5/Gen6, 112G/224G Ethernet.\n\n - Conduct channel analysis and link budget calculations; define topology constraints, trace geometry, stack-up requirements, and via optimization guidelines for PCB designers.\n\n - Develop and maintain COM, IBIS, S-parameter, and SPICE models; correlate simulation results against lab measurements.\n\n - Execute power delivery network (PDN) design and analysis: target impedance profiling, decoupling capacitor selection, AC/DC power analysis, and IR-drop simulation.\n\n - Drive DFI and design rule checks for SI/PI compliance; work with layout teams in Cadence Allegro / Sigrity or Ansys SIwave.\n\n - Collaborate with PCB design and layout engineers, and ASIC teams to define and review design guidelines early in the product lifecycle.\n\n - Support bring-up, debug signal quality issues, and document root-cause findings with clear corrective actions.\n\n - Develop and maintain simulation-to-hardware correlation databases to continuously improve modelling accuracy.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline.\n\n - 5+ years of hands-on SI/PI experience on high-speed designs (>1 Gbps serial links or DDR4/5 and HBM3/4 memory interfaces).\n\n - Proficiency with industry SI/PI EDA tools (Cadence Sigrity, Ansys SIwave/HFSS, Keysight ADS, or equivalent).\n\n - Strong understanding of transmission line theory, return-loss, insertion-loss, crosstalk, eye-diagram analysis, and jitter decomposition.\n\n - Experience with PDN modelling, target impedance methodology, and DC IR analysis.\n\n - Working knowledge of multi-layer PCB stack-up design and controlled-impedance trace routing.\n\n - Hands-on lab skills: S-parameter measurements with VNA, time-domain reflectometry (TDR), BERT operation, and oscilloscope probing techniques\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Prior work in data center, AI/ML accelerator, networking, or high-performance computing (HPC) hardware environments.\n\n - Experience scripting automated SI/PI simulation flows using Python or MATLAB to reduce manual simulation turnaround time.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\n\nWe 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."},{"id":"bdec1a6d-300b-47fc-a551-3c937d76fee0","title":"ASIC Technical Program Manager","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-01T02:17:28.691+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/bdec1a6d-300b-47fc-a551-3c937d76fee0","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/bdec1a6d-300b-47fc-a551-3c937d76fee0/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Etched is seeking a highly skilled and motivated ASIC Technical Program Manager to join our silicon team. This is a hands-on, high-accountability role for someone who has lived inside the ASIC development cycle and can drive technical execution, not just track it. You will own program coordination across Physical Design, DFT, DV, and RTL teams while managing relationships with external vendors including IP providers, implementation partners, and EDA tool vendors. The ideal candidate has real tape-out experience, understands the full RTL-to-GDSII flow, and operates with the urgency and proactivity that a first-silicon program demands.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is seeking a highly skilled and motivated ASIC Technical Program Manager to join our silicon team. This is a hands-on, high-accountability role for someone who has lived inside the ASIC development cycle and can drive technical execution, not just track it. You will own program coordination across Physical Design, DFT, DV, and RTL teams while managing relationships with external vendors including IP providers, implementation partners, and EDA tool vendors. The ideal candidate has real tape-out experience, understands the full RTL-to-GDSII flow, and operates with the urgency and proactivity that a first-silicon program demands.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Cross-Functional Technical Coordination: Own program management across Physical Design, DFT, DV, RTL, and Post-Silicon teams. Understand inter-team dependencies - know who owns what, when handoffs need to happen, and what needs to be signed off before downstream work can begin (e.g., RTL version gates for synthesis, DFT insertion checkpoints, ECO cycles).\n\n - Vendor Management: Engage directly with external vendors, including EDA partners and implementation partners. Hold vendors accountable to timelines and deliverables. Be prepared to push back, defend Etched’s technical requirements, and escalate when needed.\n\n - Risk Identification and Mitigation: Proactively surface critical path risks, schedule slippage, and cross-team blockers. Develop mitigation strategies in partnership with engineering leads and escalate appropriately to technical and executive stakeholders.\n\n - Project Planning and Execution: Manage the scheduling and execution of complex, multi-team hardware programs. Keep projects on track across tape-out milestones, synthesis respins, and signoff cycles.\n\n - Stakeholder Communication: Provide regular, clear updates to engineering leads, VP-level stakeholders, and executive leadership on project status, risks, and decisions required. Set the tone for meetings, facilitate alignment, mediate technical disagreements, and drive to decisions.\n\n - Process Coordination: Work with ops and engineering teams to maintain accurate tracking of program state, action owners, and open items. Support the adoption of tooling and dashboards that improve engineering visibility - though dashboard creation itself sits with the ops team.\n\n - Technical Acumen: Bring enough ASIC domain knowledge to communicate credibly with engineers across the design stack and with external partners. You don’t need to be a designer, but you need to know the difference between a .3 and .5 RTL release, understand where DFT fits in the flow, and have a feel for what a synthesis restart actually involves.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - At least one full ASIC tape-out under your belt. You should be able to speak fluently to what that process looks like end-to-end.\n\n - Solid understanding of the RTL-to-GDSII flow, including where Physical Design, DFT, DV, and RTL teams intersect and hand off to each other.\n\n - 5+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering program management, or a closely related role within the semiconductor or hardware space.\n\n - Experience working directly with external EDA vendors or implementation partners - you’ve been in those rooms and know how to hold your ground.\n\n - Exceptional follow-through and proactivity. You chase down dependencies; you don’t wait for them to surface.\n\n - Strong communication and facilitation skills - you set a productive tone in meetings, keep discussions on track, and bring people to alignment.\n\n - Comfort with fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments where priorities shift and programs evolve quickly.\n\n - Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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.\n\n"},{"id":"9f951aeb-1984-463d-857d-41344e1f56e3","title":"Platform PLM BOM Analyst","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-11T23:15:11.910+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/9f951aeb-1984-463d-857d-41344e1f56e3","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/9f951aeb-1984-463d-857d-41344e1f56e3/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We’re looking for a Platform PLM BOM Analyst to improve the quality, consistency, and visibility of product data across our PLM ecosystem and cross-functional business processes.

This role focuses on BOM analysis, reporting, validation, and reconciliation across Teamcenter, Contract Manufacturer data, procurement information, and As-Built records. You’ll identify product data discrepancies, improve BOM accuracy, and ensure Engineering-approved configurations are consistently reflected throughout the product lifecycle.

Beyond day-to-day analysis, you'll play an important role in identifying opportunities to improve BOM management, reporting, and product data governance. Working closely with the Platform PLM team and business stakeholders, you'll help define business requirements, recommend scalable solutions, and support the implementation of process and system enhancements that improve product data quality and operational efficiency.

We're looking for someone who is analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, and Contract Manufacturers. You enjoy solving complex data challenges, communicating insights clearly, and helping transform those insights into practical, scalable business solutions.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe’re looking for a Platform PLM BOM Analyst to improve the quality, consistency, and visibility of product data across our PLM ecosystem and cross-functional business processes.\n\nThis role focuses on BOM analysis, reporting, validation, and reconciliation across Teamcenter, Contract Manufacturer data, procurement information, and As-Built records. You’ll identify product data discrepancies, improve BOM accuracy, and ensure Engineering-approved configurations are consistently reflected throughout the product lifecycle.\n\n\n\nBeyond day-to-day analysis, you'll play an important role in identifying opportunities to improve BOM management, reporting, and product data governance. Working closely with the Platform PLM team and business stakeholders, you'll help define business requirements, recommend scalable solutions, and support the implementation of process and system enhancements that improve product data quality and operational efficiency.\n\n\n\nWe're looking for someone who is analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, and Contract Manufacturers. You enjoy solving complex data challenges, communicating insights clearly, and helping transform those insights into practical, scalable business solutions.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Analyze and validate BOMs for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.\n\n - Identify and resolve discrepancies across Engineering, Contract Manufacturer, procurement, and As-Built BOMs.\n\n - Develop and maintain BOM reports, dashboards, Delta BOMs, and data quality metrics.\n\n - Support Engineering Change analysis, implementation tracking, and product data validation.\n\n - Partner with cross-functional teams to improve product data quality and manufacturing readiness.\n\n - Support Teamcenter reporting, testing, and validation of new PLM capabilities.\n\n - Identify opportunities to improve BOM management, reporting, and product data governance.\n\n - Identify opportunities and develop business solutions to improve BOM management, reporting, and product data governance.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - 5–8 years of experience supporting product data, Bills of Materials (BOMs), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), manufacturing engineering, or configuration management within a hardware product development environment.\n\n - Experience working with Bills of Materials, product structures, or manufacturing product data.\n\n - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.\n\n - High attention to detail and data accuracy.\n\n - Experience creating reports, dashboards, or data comparisons.\n\n - Ability to investigate discrepancies across multiple systems and data sources.\n\n - Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.\n\n - Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience with Siemens Teamcenter or another PLM system.\n\n - Experience supporting hardware product development or manufacturing.\n\n - Familiarity with Engineering Change Requests, Engineering Change Notices, Deviations, or Problem Reports.\n\n - Experience working with Contract Manufacturers.\n\n - Knowledge of ERP systems such as NetSuite.\n\n - Experience with Teamcenter Reporting & Analytics, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or similar reporting tools.\n\n - Familiarity with product configurations, variants, alternates, substitutes, and As-Built BOMs.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\n\nWe 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."},{"id":"d2064295-5939-4bca-a6af-5369a11a097e","title":"Product Engineer, Silicon Validation","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-06T17:52:02.509+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/d2064295-5939-4bca-a6af-5369a11a097e","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/d2064295-5939-4bca-a6af-5369a11a097e/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Product Engineer to lead silicon validation, test program

development, and productization for our large-format AI accelerator chips. In this role, you will develop and execute test strategies from first silicon through high-volume manufacturing, partnering with cross-functional teams and external vendors to ensure production quality and cost targets. This role is critical to achieving first-pass silicon success and seamless NPI-to-HVM transitions.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking an experienced Product Engineer to lead silicon validation, test program\n\ndevelopment, and productization for our large-format AI accelerator chips. In this role, you will develop and execute test strategies from first silicon through high-volume manufacturing, partnering with cross-functional teams and external vendors to ensure production quality and cost targets. This role is critical to achieving first-pass silicon success and seamless NPI-to-HVM transitions.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Planning and executing comprehensive silicon characterization from first silicon through production release, including voltage-frequency-temperature characterization, corner testing, guard band determination, and production limit setting\n\n - Lead test cost optimization efforts while maintaining quality standards\n\n - Architect test flows to balance test time, coverage, and yield learning objectives for complex AI accelerator designs\n\n - Drive systematic yield improvement initiatives through data-driven root cause analysis using statistical tools and methods\n\n - Establish and track key quality metrics including DPPM and test escapes\n\n - Perform die/package level bring-ups, troubleshoot failure modes, and resolve issues by collaborating with design, system validation, and operations teams\n\n - Support OSAT bring-up, manage ATE/SLT manufacturing test program releases, and drive toward aggressive test cost goals\n\n - Productize test programs and methodologies for seamless transition from engineering to high-volume manufacturing\n\n - Analyze field return data and system-level failures to identify test coverage gaps and implement improved screening methods\n\n - Drive ATE-system correlation activities to ensure test program accuracy and validate performance against system specs\n\n - Manage relationships with test vendors, OSAT partners, and foundry partners\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field\n\n - 5-10+ years of hands-on experience in silicon validation, product engineering, and ATE test development for advanced node semiconductors\n\n - Proven track record in yield optimization and DPPM reduction with quantifiable results\n\n - Experience with silicon characterization methodologies including Fmax/Vmin characterization and power/thermal validation\n\n - High-volume manufacturing test experience with demonstrated production scale results\n\n - Proficiency in yield and fail pareto analysis using JMP, Exensio, DataPower, or OptimalPlus\n\n - Strong understanding of test program debugging, failure analysis correlation, and yield enhancement techniques\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience developing and optimizing ATE test programs for wafer sort and final test on\n \n Advantest V93K platforms\n\n - Experience managing wafer sort and final test across multiple advanced process nodes\n\n - GPU, HPC, or AI accelerator chip testing background with production scale results\n\n - HBM or high-speed memory interface testing and characterization experience\n\n - Leading NPI through high-volume production with multi-vendor qualification across multiple OSAT sites\n\n - Driving significant cost reduction initiatives\n\n - Multi-site parallel testing strategies and test time optimization for large-format dies\n\n - Scripting and automation skills (Python, Perl, TCL) for test data analysis and workflow automation\n\n - Cross-functional leadership in silicon bring-up and manufacturing ramp\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"5c3d84b0-0d6a-430b-80b5-f378eb541202","title":"Advanced Packaging SI/PI Engineer","department":"Architecture","team":"Architecture","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-27T16:53:09.840+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/5c3d84b0-0d6a-430b-80b5-f378eb541202","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/5c3d84b0-0d6a-430b-80b5-f378eb541202/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

As a Signal & Power Integrity Engineer you will be responsible for the electrical performance of our AI accelerator platform across silicon, package, and board. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with high-power package and board designs, robust power delivery networks, and high-speed signaling solutions in advanced packaging. You will work closely with silicon, package, platform, and system teams to co-design world-class platforms with OSAT and ODM partners. Intense focus on pushing what is possible in power delivery and high-speed signaling for our silicon.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs a Signal & Power Integrity Engineer you will be responsible for the electrical performance of our AI accelerator platform across silicon, package, and board. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with high-power package and board designs, robust power delivery networks, and high-speed signaling solutions in advanced packaging. You will work closely with silicon, package, platform, and system teams to co-design world-class platforms with OSAT and ODM partners. Intense focus on pushing what is possible in power delivery and high-speed signaling for our silicon.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - SI/PI analysis of designs and optimization within 2D/2.5D/3D packages\n\n - Close interaction with Package Layout Designers, ASIC PD and IP teams as well as Board Schematic/Layout/SI/PI teams to optimize the best electrical performance\n\n - Drive SI requirements into interposer/substrate layout (high-speed routing: 112G/224G) from preliminary design through tape-out.\n\n - Drive PDN design and decoupling strategy across substrate and interposer, owning DC IR drop, dynamic IR drop, and impedance targets across all rails.\n\n - Own ball map / C4 / BGA pin assignment from soft freeze through final freeze in partnership with package layout, ASIC PD, and board layout teams.\n\n - Support board-level SI/PI and rack-level scale-up topology studies, including rack test vehicle design and cable characterization.\n\n - Participating in cross-functional meetings and design reviews.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with a strong understanding of signal integrity and power integrity concepts and fundamentals.\n\n - 8+ years of SI/PI experience on high-performance ASIC, processor, or accelerator platforms.\n\n - Proven experience defining and closing PDN for high-power silicon, including substrate and PCB plane design, decap strategy, and dynamic IR/EM analysis.\n\n - Experience with developing systems with high-speed interfaces like HBM, SerDes and D2D interfaces.\n\n - Hands-on expertise with one or more of: ANSYS HFSS / SIwave, Cadence Sigrity (PowerSI / PowerDC), Keysight ADS.\n\n - Experience with CoWoS or equivalent advanced packaging materials and technologies including interposer SI/PI implications, C4 bump planning, and substrate stack-up trade-offs.\n\n - Track record of designing and correlating SI/PI test vehicles against silicon measurement during bring-up and lab characterization.\n\n - Strong analytical and communication skills, comfortable presenting risk, sign-off status, and trade-offs to cross-functional leadership.\n\n - Deeply creative and able to think from first principles.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Familiarity with full RTL-to-GDSII context and how PD decisions interact with package and board PDN.\n\n - Experience with multi-die, 2.5D, or 3D packaging signoff, including chip-package-system (CPS) co-design.\n\n - Project management experience coordinating across internal teams, OSAT partners, and PCB ODMs.\n\n - Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures, accelerator architectures, or HPC system design.\n\n - Startup experience or comfort working in fast-paced environments.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\nWe 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."},{"id":"a735c757-7d39-47de-9329-77d6362b5547","title":"MTS - Firmware","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Austin","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-12T02:18:10.560+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":""}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/a735c757-7d39-47de-9329-77d6362b5547","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/a735c757-7d39-47de-9329-77d6362b5547/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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 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.


This role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\n - Co-Develop cutting-edge software optimized across hardware and software driving the full potential of very large AI models.\n\n - Solve challenging problems across the full stack, from low-level drivers and APIs to high-level applications and frameworks.\n\n - Contribute to the development of AI solutions that will revolutionize industries like natural language processing, chain of reasoning automation, generative media.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.\n\n - Experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.\n\n - Experience developing and testing software on launching products.\n\n - Experience with firmware design, implementation, and troubleshooting.\n\n - Experience with embedded architectures, IO technologies (I2C, SPI, PCIe, DRAM etc.), as well as concepts like scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Master’s degree Computer Science, or a related technical field.\n\n - Experience resolving customer-related issues.\n\n - Experience solving ambiguous problems.\n\n - Excellent verbal and written communication skills.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n \n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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.\n\n\nThis role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration."},{"id":"8e280db7-f954-4467-b3ea-b9b4386d6632","title":"Embedded Software Engineer","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-19T03:00:40.434+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/8e280db7-f954-4467-b3ea-b9b4386d6632","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/8e280db7-f954-4467-b3ea-b9b4386d6632/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

This role owns the accelerator software that makes our chips usable. You'll work across the layers that bring the chip to life and connect it to the host: the firmware that powers it on, the on-die software that initializes and manages it, and the kernel-level interface that exposes it to the rest of the inference stack. The work spans three tightly-coupled domains; ASIC firmware, microcontroller firmware, and host-side kernel and drivers. We hire engineers who are deep in one area and curious about the others.

This role spans across three work areas. You would specialize in one and contribute across the others as the team grows:

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

 

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.

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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.

Job Summary

Our supercomputing role focuses on the design, development, and deployment of ML system software required for operating rack-scale systems. Your work will span network performance, telemetry creation and processing pipelines, and analysis of system-level health and performance. Supercomputing is also responsible for the deployment and provisioning of software frameworks and hardware validation, maintaining secure and performant systems for data center scale ML workloads. We are looking for Summer '26, Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have (Nice to have qualifications)

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

Program details


For any questions, contact internships@etched.com

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.

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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.

Job Summary

Etched is looking for an exceptional Optical Systems Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will own the definition and implementation of the optical interconnect architecture for our next-generation accelerator systems and help us scale our manufacturing capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Benefits

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 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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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.

Job Summary

Etched is hiring a Product Quality Engineer based in the US to ensure robust quality systems across our suppliers, domestic contract manufacturing and integration partners (L10 server, L11 rack). You will own quality assurance for our advanced AI hardware builds—driving inspection and test strategies, resolving systemic issues, and ensuring that every system leaving the factory meets Etched’s standards for performance and reliability.

This role will collaborate closely with Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, and Test Engineering, serving as the bridge between Etched HQ and factory teams. It is ideal for someone who enjoys being hands-on in the factory, while also establishing the scalable quality processes needed to support high-volume production.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

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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.

Job Summary

Etched is hiring a Quality Engineer based in Taipei to ensure robust quality systems across our critical component suppliers, domestic contract manufacturing and integration partners (L10 server, L11 rack). You will own quality assurance for our advanced AI hardware builds—driving inspection and test strategies, resolving systemic issues, and ensuring that every system leaving the factory meets Etched’s standards for performance and reliability.

This role will collaborate closely with Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, and Test Engineering, serving as the bridge between Etched HQ and factory teams. It is ideal for someone who enjoys being hands-on in the factory, while also establishing the scalable quality processes needed to support high-volume production.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have:

Strong candidates may also have:

Benefits

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.

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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.

What you'll do

Representative projects

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have

Benefits

Compensation Range

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nWhat you'll do\n\n - Own HAPS bring-up. Take RTL from the design teams and get it running on the prototype — partitioning, multi-FPGA timing closure, clocking, memory mapping, and full-chip assembly.\n\n - Expand platform coverage. Stand up new subsystem configurations so more of the chip is available to software earlier. Each new partition you enable unblocks a team.\n\n - Support your users. Firmware, driver, and software engineers are your customers. You'll help them get running, triage their failures, and figure out whether the bug is theirs, the RTL's, or the platform's.\n\n - Debug hard problems. Trace issues across FPGA boundaries with waveform capture, protocol analyzers, and whatever tooling you have to build yourself.\n\n - Bring up interfaces. PCIe, Ethernet, HBM and memory models, JTAG, I2C, UART, QSPI — both the models and the physical bridges.\n\n - Build the flows. Automate builds, regressions, and image delivery so the platform scales past the number of people who understand it.\n\n - Work across the org. Design, DV, Silicon Validation, Performance, Firmware, and Software — plus direct partnership with Synopsys on tool issues and platform capability.\n\n\n\nRepresentative projects\n\n - Bring up a new subsystem partition on HAPS and get firmware booting on it end to end.\n\n - Build a self-service flow that lets software users load and run their own images without prototyping support in the loop.\n\n - Instrument deep trace capture across partition boundaries and build the tooling that surfaces it usefully.\n\n - Create configurable chip-to-chip and off-chip interface models using prototyping-efficient primitives.\n\n - Close timing on a partition that doesn't want to close, and document how you did it so the next person doesn't have to rediscover it.\n \n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Hands-on FPGA prototyping experience — HAPS, Protium, proFPGA, S2C, or similar — covering partitioning, synthesis, timing closure, bring-up, and debug.\n\n - Strong SystemVerilog and Verilog, with a working understanding of what synthesizes well for FPGA and what doesn't.\n\n - Solid C/C++ and Linux system development.\n\n - Scripting fluency for automation — Python, TCL, shell.\n\n - Comfort debugging failures you didn't cause, in code you didn't write, for users who need an answer today.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have\n\n - Experience with ProtoCompiler, Vivado, or Synopsys prototyping flows.\n\n - Firmware, driver, or bootloader bring-up experience on pre-silicon platforms.\n\n - Experience with emulation platforms (ZeBu, Palladium, Veloce) alongside prototyping — we run both, and the collateral is shared.\n\n - UVM verification environments, DFT, and testbench modeling.\n\n - Waveform debug tooling: Verdi, SimVision.\n\n - Cluster and job scheduling experience (SLURM), CI systems.\n \n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n \n \n\nCompensation Range\n\n - $150,000 - $275,000\n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

Etched is looking for a Mechanical Lab Operations Lead to own the day-to-day operational backbone of our R&D and prototyping facility. This is a highly cross-functional, hands-on role responsible for everything required to keep a hybrid clean/dirty mechanical lab running seamlessly. You will manage a diverse footprint that spans a traditional machine shop, an advanced additive manufacturing and post- eprocessing facility, a high-precision inspection area, and a large-scale inventory/rack build space.

Reporting to the Head of Lab Operations, you will be the ultimate custodian of lab safety, machine uptime, asset tracking, and space workflow. You will partner directly with mechanical, thermal, and hardware validation engineers across multiple product lines to triage fabrication requests, manage material pipelines, enforce EH&S compliance, and maintain an environment where engineering can move at lightning speed without sacrificing organization or safety.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is looking for a Mechanical Lab Operations Lead to own the day-to-day operational backbone of our R&D and prototyping facility. This is a highly cross-functional, hands-on role responsible for everything required to keep a hybrid clean/dirty mechanical lab running seamlessly. You will manage a diverse footprint that spans a traditional machine shop, an advanced additive manufacturing and post- eprocessing facility, a high-precision inspection area, and a large-scale inventory/rack build space.\n\nReporting to the Head of Lab Operations, you will be the ultimate custodian of lab safety, machine uptime, asset tracking, and space workflow. You will partner directly with mechanical, thermal, and hardware validation engineers across multiple product lines to triage fabrication requests, manage material pipelines, enforce EH&S compliance, and maintain an environment where engineering can move at lightning speed without sacrificing organization or safety.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Lab Operations & Machine Maintenance\n \n - Machine Shop Ownership: Supervise and maintain machine shop equipment, including manual/CNC mills, lathes, drill presses, band saws, chop saws, sheet metal brakes, and associated tooling. Ensure all machines are clean, lubricated, and safe for use.\n \n - 3D Printer Farm & Clean Lab Management: Oversee a high-throughput additive manufacturing suite, including an FDM printer farm, SLA systems, and Nylon SLS/FDM printers. Manage post-processing infrastructure, including bead blasters, compressors, fume hoods, and specialized ventilation equipment.\n \n - Equipment Commissioning & Calibration: Receive, position, and stand up incoming lab machinery. Maintain strict calibration and preventative maintenance schedules for precision instruments, including an Instron universal testing machine, microscopes, and granite surface inspection tables.\n \n - Vendor & Contractor Relations: Serve as the primary point of contact for equipment manufacturers, tooling suppliers, and external maintenance technicians.\n\n - Safety, EH&S, & Environment Control\n \n - Enforce Shop Safety: Establish and enforce strict lab safety protocols, including machine guarding, personal protective equipment (PPE) compliance, and proper tool-use certifications for engineering staff.\n \n - Hazardous Materials & Ventilation: Manage chemical, resin, and consumable inventories; ensure proper storage, safety data sheet (SDS) logging, and compliant hazardous waste disposal (resins, solvents, nylon powders).\n \n - Facilities Coordination: Partner with site services to manage lab infrastructure needs, including dedicated electrical drops, compressed air lines, exhaust systems, and facility chillers/PSUs.\n\n - Inventory, Logistics, & Space Management\n \n - Inventory System Ownership: Keep real-time counts of raw stock (aluminum, plastics), fasteners, structural components, cables, hoses, and project-specific storage.\n \n - Rack Build & Assembly Logistics: Optimize the workflow of a dedicated Rack Build Area. Coordinate the intake of heavy infrastructure components and ensure staging areas are clear and organized for active engineering builds.\n \n - Procurement Workflows: Proactively flag low-stock items and manage end-to-end procurement for lab shop consumables (endmills, blades, 3D printer filaments/resins, hardware).\n\n - Request Triage & Engineering Support\n \n - Workflow Triage: Define and run an intake process for engineering fabrication, 3D printing, and assembly requests, ensuring clear prioritization across multiple parallel projects.\n \n - Layout Optimization: Continuously evaluate the physical workflow of the lab - refining the footprint of workbenches, tool chests, and storage racks to eliminate bottlenecks and optimize throughput.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience: 5+ years of experience managing a mechanical lab, machine shop, prototyping facility, or hardware R&D space.\n\n - Machine Proficiency: Hands-on operational familiarity with manual machine shop tools (mills, lathes, saws, brakes) and safety requirements.\n\n - Additive Manufacturing Depth: Practical experience operating and maintaining a fleet of modern 3D printers (FDM, SLA, and Nylon/SLS processes) and post-processing equipment.\n\n - Operational Rigor: Proven ability to build and scale organization systems - such as inventory asset management software, 5S cleanliness methodologies, or request tracking queues - from the ground up.\n\n - Safety Leadership: Deep working knowledge of OSHA standards, shop safety procedures, PPE enforcement, and EH&S compliance regarding chemicals and particulate filtration.\n\n - Physical Capability: Ability to operate in a standing shop environment, handle physical tools, and lift/move heavy lab inventory or equipment setups when necessary.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Technology, or a related technical field (equivalent deep hands-on shop experience is highly valued).\n\n - Advanced Machining: Experience with CNC programming (CAM), precision laser cutter operation, or custom fixture fabrication.\n\n - Thermal/Fluid Systems: Familiarity with heavy hardware infrastructure support, including liquid cooling loops, facility chillers, manifold systems, and power distribution units (PSUs).\n\n - Startup Agility: Past experience at a fast-paced hardware startup where lab spaces and operational processes had to be built out dynamically.\n\n - Software Familiarity: Experience using project management tools (Jira, spreadsheets) and basic CAD/slicing software to review engineering files for fabricability.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. 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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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Thermal/Mechanical Engineer who has experience designing direct-to-chip cold plate modules to join our team and lead our efforts in optimizing thermal management for high-performance systems. You must be familiar with both the thermal and mechanical aspects of the cold plate module as well as their adjacent components such as thermal interface material (TIM). You will play a crucial role in developing and implementing advanced thermal management solutions for our high-performance data center products. Your expertise in water cooling, thermal simulations, mechanical engineering and cooling system design will be essential in ensuring optimal thermal performance and reliability.

Key responsibilities

You maybe a good fit if you have

Benefits

 

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a highly experienced Thermal/Mechanical Engineer who has experience designing direct-to-chip cold plate modules to join our team and lead our efforts in optimizing thermal management for high-performance systems. You must be familiar with both the thermal and mechanical aspects of the cold plate module as well as their adjacent components such as thermal interface material (TIM). You will play a crucial role in developing and implementing advanced thermal management solutions for our high-performance data center products. Your expertise in water cooling, thermal simulations, mechanical engineering and cooling system design will be essential in ensuring optimal thermal performance and reliability.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Lead the in-house design and optimization of various direct-to-chip cold plate modules\n\n - Lead the design and optimization of thermal management systems for high-performance data center products, focusing on water cooling solutions and advanced cooling concepts.\n\n - Cover both the thermal and mechanical engineering design\n\n - Be very familiar with the key components of a cold plate, including but not limited to pedestals, nozzles, pedestals, internal fin designs (e.g. skived fins), etc.\n\n - Develop and implement water cooling solutions, including internal manifolds, quick disconnects, CDUs (Coolant Distribution Units), and heat exchangers. Ensure effective cooling and thermal management for high-power processors and other critical components\n\n - Candidate must be able to run liquid thermal simulations to predict and analyze thermal performance of the heat exchanger\n\n - Must be familiar with the mechanical design, fabrication, and mechanical assembly of the cold plate.\n\n - Evaluate and select thermal interface materials (TIMs) for various heat sinks and cooling solutions. Optimize TIM performance to enhance thermal conductivity and heat dissipation.\n\n - Explore and implement advanced thermal cooling concepts, including phase change cooling, liquid cooling, and other cutting-edge technologies.\n\n - Oversee the testing and validation of thermal management systems to ensure they meet performance, reliability, and efficiency standards. Address any issues related to thermal performance and provide solutions.\n\n - Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for thermal management designs, including design specifications, simulation results, and testing reports. Report on performance and any issues identified during testing.\n\n - Work closely with cross-functional teams, including mechanical engineers, electrical systems engineers, and vendors, to ensure seamless integration and operation of thermal management solutions.\n \n \n\nYou maybe a good fit if you have\n\n - A Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Thermal Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degrees or certifications in thermal management or related areas are highly desirable.\n\n - A Minimum of 5 years of experience in thermal and mechanical engineering with a strong focus on water cooling systems and advanced thermal management solutions.\n\n - Strong expertise in mechanical design\n\n - Proven expertise in designing and managing direct-to-processor cooling systems and thermal simulations.\n\n - Extensive experience with cold plate designs, water cooling systems, including internal manifolds, quick disconnects, CDUs, and heat exchangers\n\n - Proficiency in mechanical tolerances and generating mechanical drawings using GD&T\n\n - Proficiency in mechanical CAD software and tools such as NX, Creo, CATIA, or similar is required\n\n - Apply DFM and DFA principles to optimize designs for cost-effective manufacturing, assembly, and maintenance, ensuring high efficiency and reduced production costs.\n\n - Proven expertise in designing and managing direct-to-processor cold plate modules\n\n - Proficiency in thermal simulation tools such as Fluent and techniques to predict and analyze thermal performance of heat exchangers\n\n - Knowledge of various thermal interface materials (TIMs) and heat sink designs\n\n - Experience with advanced thermal cooling concepts and technologies.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

At Etched, building and maintaining a secure yet friction-free computing environment is central to our mission. As a Security Engineer, you will protect the networks, systems, and applications that enable our engineers to push the limits of AI hardware. You will design, implement, and operate the monitoring, detection, and response infrastructure that safeguards Etched’s intellectual property, high-performance compute clusters, and developer workflows across both on-prem and cloud environments. You will partner with infrastructure, IT, application, and external provider teams to build systems that are secure by design, resilient under pressure, and seamless and easy to use for the end users.

This role combines hands-on technical depth with a focus on scalability and automation. You will take ownership of Etched’s security posture across infrastructure, IT, and applications, driving proactive threat detection, real-time monitoring, and rapid incident response. Your decisions will always balance maintaining full firm-wide velocity while improving our security and defense posture. You will develop tools, automation, and workflows that evolve with our rapidly growing and expanding footprint and ensure that security enhances, rather than hinders, innovation. If you are motivated by precision, ownership, and impact, you will find Etched the ideal place to advance your craft and contribute to the future of AI computing.

Key Responsibilities

Representative Projects

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

Benefits

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 based 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAt Etched, building and maintaining a secure yet friction-free computing environment is central to our mission. As a Security Engineer, you will protect the networks, systems, and applications that enable our engineers to push the limits of AI hardware. You will design, implement, and operate the monitoring, detection, and response infrastructure that safeguards Etched’s intellectual property, high-performance compute clusters, and developer workflows across both on-prem and cloud environments. You will partner with infrastructure, IT, application, and external provider teams to build systems that are secure by design, resilient under pressure, and seamless and easy to use for the end users.\n\n\n\nThis role combines hands-on technical depth with a focus on scalability and automation. You will take ownership of Etched’s security posture across infrastructure, IT, and applications, driving proactive threat detection, real-time monitoring, and rapid incident response. Your decisions will always balance maintaining full firm-wide velocity while improving our security and defense posture. You will develop tools, automation, and workflows that evolve with our rapidly growing and expanding footprint and ensure that security enhances, rather than hinders, innovation. If you are motivated by precision, ownership, and impact, you will find Etched the ideal place to advance your craft and contribute to the future of AI computing.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Manage and harden security baselines across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud systems, ensuring strong protection while maintaining speed and usability.\n\n - Integrate telemetry, logging, tracing, and management of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across the entire environment to provide unified and comprehensive observability into infrastructure and application activity.\n\n - Lead vulnerability management, patching, and configuration assurance programs to reduce exposure and maintain a consistent security posture.\n\n - Partner with infrastructure, IT, and application teams to strengthen identity, access, and network security through Okta, Google Workspace, and FreeIPA.\n\n - Implement and maintain zero-trust network architectures, SASE controls, CASB solutions, and conditional access policies that protect both users and data across environments to ensure full access and full control of our data and IP regardless of location or device.\n\n - Operate and enhance security operations tooling, including SIEM, SOAR, and EDR/XDR platforms, to ensure comprehensive monitoring and rapid detection of threats.\n\n - Develop and tune detection logic, automation, and playbooks for identifying and responding to threats such as insider activity, lateral movement, and anomalous behavior.\n\n - Investigate and respond to security incidents, performing root-cause analysis, containment, and remediation while coordinating with engineering and IT.\n\n - Build automation, scripts, AI agents, and integrations that streamline monitoring, alerting, and remediation workflows to improve efficiency and reliability.\n\n - Establish metrics, dashboards, and feedback mechanisms to measure detection coverage, response time, and overall security health.\n\n - Promote a culture of security awareness and ownership across engineering teams, ensuring that protection and productivity advance together.\n\n\n\nRepresentative Projects\n\n - Implementing a centralized security telemetry pipeline that aggregates logs and signals from networks, compute clusters, storage, endpoints devices, build systems, and cloud services into a unified SIEM for improved detection coverage.\n\n - Designing and developing Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) workflows to automate repetitive tasks like alert triage, data gathering, and initial containment, which improves SOC efficiency.\n\n - Help build a secure and flexible end user access framework that uses SDWAN, SASE, CASB, conditional access, EDR and XDR, and MDM/MAM to support productive, friction-free and secure work from any location using different devices.\n\n - Network Security Monitoring: Configuring and monitoring network intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS) and firewalls to detect anomalies in network traffic, especially on the SDWAN and client VPN links\n\n - Creating and refining detailed, documented incident response plans and playbooks tailored to specific scenarios, such as a breach in a lab environment or a compromised silicon testing machine.\n\n - Conducting regular vulnerability assessments and penetration testing on internal systems and applications, then coordinating with relevant teams to manage and remediate identified weaknesses.\n\n\n\nYou May Be a Good Fit If You Have\n\n - 5-7+ years of experience in security engineering, SOC operations, detection engineering, incident response, or a similar role that blends hands-on technical work with analytical problem solving.\n\n - Strong software engineering skills with Python, Go, Bash, (C and Rust a major plus), including the ability to design, implement, and maintain high-quality code, automation frameworks, services, and integrations that improve security, observability, and operational efficiency.\n\n - Proficiency with SIEM and SOAR platforms, including experience building detections, dashboards, and automated workflows.\n\n - Deep understanding of EDR and XDR platforms, endpoint security hardening, and telemetry collection across macOS, Linux, Windows, and server environments.\n\n - Experience implementing or supporting zero trust architectures, including conditional access, SASE, CASB, and identity-driven access control models.\n\n - Familiarity with IAM and SSO systems such as Okta, Google Workspace, and FreeIPA and the ability to design secure identity, access, and authentication policies.\n\n - Strong networking knowledge, including SDWAN, VPN, IDS and IPS, firewall administration, segmentation strategy, and monitoring of network traffic for anomalies.\n\n - Hands-on experience managing or building security telemetry pipelines, log ingestion frameworks, or observability systems that support both structured and unstructured data.\n\n - Solid understanding of threat modeling, the MITRE ATT and CK framework, attacker tradecraft, and common detection and response patterns.\n\n - Experience performing vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, or secure configuration reviews and collaborating with teams to remediate identified risks.\n\n - Exposure to cloud and hybrid environments such as AWS, GCP, or on-prem clusters and the ability to evaluate risks and implement protective controls across these environments.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with generous premium coverage\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - 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We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe are based in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. 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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.

Job Summary

We are using AI to build AI chips. AI agents are starting to genuinely work for verification, debug, and EDA flows — we want someone to bring that inside Etched and push past it. As an Applied AI Engineer, you will embed with our hardware teams — RTL design, verification, DFT, physical design, and silicon validation — and build the agents and tooling that multiply their output. You'll wire LLM agents into simulators, regressions, waveform and log analysis, EDA flows, and bring-up workflows, and own the evals that separate demos from tools engineers actually rely on. This is an internal, force-multiplier role: your success is measured by how much faster the chip team moves, not by lines of code you ship yourself. It is not a customer-facing role and not about inference serving — it's AI applied to how we build the chip itself. You do not need to be a chip designer or a traditional software engineer — you need to be an exceptional problem solver who has shipped real agentic systems, works comfortably across stacks and domains, and uses AI to ramp on hard new problems fast.

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You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Representative projects

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are using AI to build AI chips. AI agents are starting to genuinely work for verification, debug, and EDA flows — we want someone to bring that inside Etched and push past it. As an Applied AI Engineer, you will embed with our hardware teams — RTL design, verification, DFT, physical design, and silicon validation — and build the agents and tooling that multiply their output. You'll wire LLM agents into simulators, regressions, waveform and log analysis, EDA flows, and bring-up workflows, and own the evals that separate demos from tools engineers actually rely on. This is an internal, force-multiplier role: your success is measured by how much faster the chip team moves, not by lines of code you ship yourself. It is not a customer-facing role and not about inference serving — it's AI applied to how we build the chip itself. You do not need to be a chip designer or a traditional software engineer — you need to be an exceptional problem solver who has shipped real agentic systems, works comfortably across stacks and domains, and uses AI to ramp on hard new problems fast.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Build, deploy, and maintain LLM-agent workflows that accelerate chip development: debug triage, testbench and coverage work, log/waveform analysis, EDA script generation, and engineering knowledge retrieval\n\n - Embed with hardware teams to find the highest-leverage pain points, then turn them into automated workflows with measurable adoption\n\n - Design rigorous evals for agent performance on real silicon-engineering tasks — not proxy metrics — and use them to drive iteration\n\n - Integrate agents with our internal infrastructure: simulation and emulation flows, CI/regression systems, lab equipment, and issue tracking, via tool-calling and MCP\n\n - Champion adoption: documentation, training, and fast feedback loops with the engineers who use what you build\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - A track record of solving hard problems across stacks and domains — you enjoy being dropped into unfamiliar territory and figuring it out\n\n - Comfort with Python and code: you can read it, modify it, debug it, and direct AI to write it well. We do not care whether you write code from scratch — we care whether you ship things that work\n\n - Fluency using AI to learn and ramp on new problems — agentic coding tools, deep research, and frontier models are how you work, not an add-on\n\n - Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-based agents or AI tooling that real users depend on (beyond calling an API — context engineering, tool integration, orchestration, failure analysis)\n\n - An eval-driven mindset: you measure whether AI systems actually work before scaling them\n\n - High agency and comfort with ambiguity — you can find the problem, not just solve the stated one\n\n - Interest in chip development and the ability to ramp quickly on a deeply technical domain. Hardware experience is a real plus, but not required — you will be willing and able to learn quickly\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Chip development in any form (the strongest plus): RTL/SystemVerilog, functional verification (UVM), DFT, physical design/STA, FPGA, emulation, or silicon bring-up and validation\n\n - EDA tool flows and Tcl scripting; reading waveforms, logs, and regressions\n\n - Fine-tuning or post-training (SFT, RLHF/DPO), RAG over proprietary technical data, or multi-agent orchestration\n\n - Deep software engineering: C++ or Rust, developer-facing internal platforms, CI/CD at scale, or infrastructure (Docker, Slurm, Ray)\n\n\n\nRepresentative projects\n\n - In your first 30 days, pick one hardware team's worst recurring pain, ship an agent for it, and prove adoption with usage data\n\n - Build an agent that triages overnight regression failures, clusters them by root cause, and drafts bug reports with waveform and log evidence attached\n\n - Wire Claude Code-style agents into our EDA and validation flows via MCP so engineers can drive simulations, queries, and lab equipment from natural language\n\n - Create a retrieval system over our specs, design docs, and past debug history that cuts ramp time for new engineers\n\n - Design an eval suite that measures agent performance on real verification and debug tasks, and use it to decide which workflows to automate next\n\n - Prototype AlphaEvolve-style optimization loops that propose and automatically verify improvements to test programs or flow scripts\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with generous premium coverage\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we're different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\n\nWe 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."},{"id":"84cd9ae3-7dbc-4200-a00d-ed080b94de42","title":"Demand Planner","department":"Production","team":"Production","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-23T21:38:13.907+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/84cd9ae3-7dbc-4200-a00d-ed080b94de42","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/84cd9ae3-7dbc-4200-a00d-ed080b94de42/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Etched is looking for a founding Demand Planner to own demand forecasting, supply planning, and finished goods inventory management in support of the company’s S&OP objectives. This role is responsible for developing and executing weekly, monthly, and quarterly demand-supply plans, monitoring inventory and production performance, and adjusting plans to meet evolving business needs. The Demand Planner will partner closely with Manufacturing and Global Supply Management teams to translate forecasts into executable build plans, identify and mitigate supply risks, and lead scenario planning under capacity or component constraints. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills, experience in production or NPI environments, and thrives in a fast-paced, cross-functional startup setting.

Key Responsibilities

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is looking for a founding Demand Planner to own demand forecasting, supply planning, and finished goods inventory management in support of the company’s S&OP objectives. This role is responsible for developing and executing weekly, monthly, and quarterly demand-supply plans, monitoring inventory and production performance, and adjusting plans to meet evolving business needs. The Demand Planner will partner closely with Manufacturing and Global Supply Management teams to translate forecasts into executable build plans, identify and mitigate supply risks, and lead scenario planning under capacity or component constraints. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills, experience in production or NPI environments, and thrives in a fast-paced, cross-functional startup setting.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own demand-supply forecasting and finished goods inventory.\n\n - Generate and execute weekly and quarterly demand - supply plans that meet Etched’s S&OP objective. Evaluate risks. Plan and implement contingency plans to mitigate risk.\n\n - Build and execute weekly, monthly, and quarterly demand and supply plans\n\n - Monitor planned vs. actual builds, inventory levels across multiple SKU’s, and consumption rates; adjust plans as needed\n\n - Partner with Manufacturing OPM and Global Supply Management to translate forecasts into executable build plans\n\n - Lead scenario planning, risk identification, and mitigation under capacity or component constraints\n\n - Drive continuous improvement of demand planning processes, tools, and models\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience with APS, MRP/ERP systems, or scenario planning tools\n\n - Background in hardware, semiconductor, or advanced manufacturing\n\n - Experience with data visualization, SQL, or Python\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"bb2d320e-50d1-4182-a0c8-975ad2015e1c","title":"Data Center Engineer","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-25T02:03:48.682+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/bb2d320e-50d1-4182-a0c8-975ad2015e1c","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/bb2d320e-50d1-4182-a0c8-975ad2015e1c/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Deploying next-generation inference hardware at scale requires more than great chips - it demands world-class physical infrastructure. As a Data Center Engineer at Etched, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of our data center and hardware lab environments: from facility selection and rack design, power distribution, networking layout, cabling, hardware management, day-to-day operations, and long-term capacity planning. You'll work directly with the hardware, platform, and software teams to bring our systems online faster, keep them running harder, and push the limits of what dense, high-power AI inference design and manufacturing infrastructure can do.

This is not a traditional data center operations role. We expect you to treat data center engineering with the same rigor and craftsmanship we apply to our chip design - thinking from first principles about power density, thermal constraints, network topology, and physical security. You'll be making real architectural decisions that directly shape how our products are engineered, manufactured and reach customers.

You will be on the ground in our co-location facilities and lab environments, working hands-on with custom server platforms and high-speed networking. You'll drive the processes, tooling, and vendor relationships that allow us to scale our infrastructure as fast as our product roadmap demands.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nDeploying next-generation inference hardware at scale requires more than great chips - it demands world-class physical infrastructure. As a Data Center Engineer at Etched, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of our data center and hardware lab environments: from facility selection and rack design, power distribution, networking layout, cabling, hardware management, day-to-day operations, and long-term capacity planning. You'll work directly with the hardware, platform, and software teams to bring our systems online faster, keep them running harder, and push the limits of what dense, high-power AI inference design and manufacturing infrastructure can do.\n\nThis is not a traditional data center operations role. We expect you to treat data center engineering with the same rigor and craftsmanship we apply to our chip design - thinking from first principles about power density, thermal constraints, network topology, and physical security. You'll be making real architectural decisions that directly shape how our products are engineered, manufactured and reach customers.\n\nYou will be on the ground in our co-location facilities and lab environments, working hands-on with custom server platforms and high-speed networking. You'll drive the processes, tooling, and vendor relationships that allow us to scale our infrastructure as fast as our product roadmap demands.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own rack layout, capacity planning, power distribution, network design, cabling, and physical deployment of Etched High performance computing platforms across data center and hardware lab environments.\n\n - Design and manage power distribution and redundancy architectures — from utility feeds and PDUs to per-rack power and cooling budgets - for high-density AI compute deployments pushing 90 kW per rack.\n\n - Collaborate with physical infrastructure and facilities teams, as well as external vendors to build and manage highly sophisticated hardware labs used for bring-up, EVT, and customer demos.\n\n - Partner with co-location vendors and internal teams to evaluate sites, negotiate contracts, and enforce SLAs around power, cooling, physical security, and network connectivity.\n\n - Architect and implement high-speed networking infrastructure (100G/200G/400G Ethernet) connecting compute nodes, storage, and upstream peering, in coordination with network and platform engineering teams.\n\n - Develop and maintain asset management systems, rack diagrams, and change control processes to ensure full visibility into physical infrastructure state at all times.\n\n - Build and operate monitoring and alerting for environmental health (temperature, humidity, power draw, UPS state) and drive rapid response to hardware and facility incidents.\n\n - Define and execute preventive maintenance schedules and hardware lifecycle processes, including RMA coordination with vendors and on-site repair.\n\n - Lead capacity planning cycles in lockstep with the hardware roadmap, forecasting power, space, and network needs 6–18 months out and translating those forecasts into facility agreements and procurement plans.\n\n - Establish and enforce physical security procedures, access control policies, and audit trails across all data center sites.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you\n\n - Have 5+ years of hands-on data center engineering or operations experience, with direct responsibility for physical hardware deployment, power architecture, and facility management.\n\n - Have designed and deployed high-density compute environments (20 kW/rack and above) and have first-hand experience managing the thermal and power challenges that come with them.\n\n - Are deeply comfortable with structured cabling, fiber and copper plant management, and high-speed networking hardware at scale.\n\n - Can read and interpret electrical one-line diagrams, raised-floor and hot-aisle/cold-aisle plans, and co-location facility documentation without assistance.\n\n - Have built or operated monitoring and DCIM tooling and treat infrastructure visibility as a non-negotiable property of any environment you own.\n\n - Are a strong vendor manager - you know how to write an RFP, run a competitive evaluation, and hold a co-lo or hardware vendor to their commitments.\n\n - Thrive in fast-moving environments where requirements shift quickly and you need to make confident decisions with incomplete information.\n\n - Are driven by ownership and take pride in environments that are clean, documented, and operationally excellent - not just ones that are \"up.\"\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Physical deployment and bring-up of custom or semi-custom server platforms, including early-stage hardware that doesn't come with vendor support.\n\n - Liquid cooling systems (direct liquid cooling, rear-door heat exchangers, or immersion cooling) and the facility requirements they impose.\n\n - AI or HPC cluster environments - GPU or ASIC clusters, high-radix switch fabrics, RDMA networking.\n\n - Scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Ansible) for asset tracking, environmental monitoring integration, or operational workflows.\n\n - Working within a semiconductor or hardware startup, where roadmaps compress and infrastructure needs to keep pace with silicon.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow We're Different\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"2021199f-221e-4a8c-aa66-210496cb38da","title":"General Application","department":"Other","team":"Other","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-30T16:13:56.718+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/2021199f-221e-4a8c-aa66-210496cb38da","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/2021199f-221e-4a8c-aa66-210496cb38da/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Exceptional companies are built by exceptional people. We’ve found that exceptional people don’t always fit neatly into pre-defined job descriptions.

If you're excited about what we're building and have a clear vision for how you could create an outsized impact at Etched, we'd love to hear from you. Tell us what you'd work on, why it matters, and why you're uniquely suited to do it.

We’re looking for unconventional thinkers, builders, and problem-solvers. If that's you, introduce yourself. We’ll make room.

Benefits

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 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nExceptional companies are built by exceptional people. We’ve found that exceptional people don’t always fit neatly into pre-defined job descriptions.\n\n\n\nIf you're excited about what we're building and have a clear vision for how you could create an outsized impact at Etched, we'd love to hear from you. Tell us what you'd work on, why it matters, and why you're uniquely suited to do it.\n\n\n\nWe’re looking for unconventional thinkers, builders, and problem-solvers. If that's you, introduce yourself. We’ll make room.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\n\nWe 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."},{"id":"fbade92c-43c8-4e8d-931a-be9c5ec27b5b","title":"Head of Platform Product Reliability","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-12T02:31:58.682+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/fbade92c-43c8-4e8d-931a-be9c5ec27b5b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/fbade92c-43c8-4e8d-931a-be9c5ec27b5b/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly technical and execution-focused Head of Platform Product Reliability to lead reliability engineering across Etched's server, rack, and datacenter platform products.

This role owns system-level product reliability from architecture through fleet deployment. You will define reliability strategy, qualification methodologies, accelerated stress testing programs, failure analysis processes, and long-term reliability standards for complex AI infrastructure systems. This team focuses specifically on product reliability engineering for platform hardware and deployed systems — ensuring every Etched product ships with the reliability profile that enterprise and hyperscale customers demand.

You will work cross-functionally with Platform Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Thermal, Firmware, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Datacenter Operations, and Program teams to ensure Etched products achieve exceptional reliability at scale.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a highly technical and execution-focused Head of Platform Product Reliability to lead reliability engineering across Etched's server, rack, and datacenter platform products.\n\nThis role owns system-level product reliability from architecture through fleet deployment. You will define reliability strategy, qualification methodologies, accelerated stress testing programs, failure analysis processes, and long-term reliability standards for complex AI infrastructure systems. This team focuses specifically on product reliability engineering for platform hardware and deployed systems — ensuring every Etched product ships with the reliability profile that enterprise and hyperscale customers demand.\n\nYou will work cross-functionally with Platform Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Thermal, Firmware, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Datacenter Operations, and Program teams to ensure Etched products achieve exceptional reliability at scale.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Define and own the end-to-end reliability strategy for AI servers, accelerator platforms, rack systems, and datacenter infrastructure, from design requirements through field deployment\n\n - Establish reliability requirements, qualification standards, and validation methodologies that scale across product generations\n\n - Build and institutionalize reliability engineering processes spanning the full product lifecycle:\n \n - EVT / DVT / PVT qualification gates and exit criteria\n \n - Accelerated life testing (ALT) and accelerated stress testing (AST)\n \n - Environmental testing: temperature, humidity, altitude, contamination\n \n - HALT / HASS programs for design margin and production screening\n \n - Vibration, shock, and transportation stress testing\n \n - Power cycling, thermal cycling, and long-duration soak testing\n\n - Lead root-cause investigations for reliability failures surfaced during development, manufacturing, and field deployment, driving corrective actions across hardware, firmware, thermal, and mechanical domains\n\n - Develop comprehensive system reliability models including MTBF projections, FIT rate analysis, Weibull lifetime modeling, component derating methodologies, and reliability growth tracking\n\n - Ensure reliability is considered early, partnering with Platform Engineering architects and design leads so reliability requirements shape decisions before they become expensive to change\n\n - Work closely with ODMs, JDMs, contract manufacturers, and component suppliers to validate and enforce long-term platform reliability commitments\n\n - Build fleet reliability infrastructure: telemetry analysis pipelines, field feedback loops, and monitoring frameworks that give Etched visibility into deployed system health at scale\n\n - Drive reliability signoff criteria and lead product release readiness reviews across engineering and program teams\n\n - Build and lead a high-performing product reliability engineering organization — hiring, developing, and retaining technical talent as the company scales\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical field\n\n - 10+ years of reliability engineering experience in hardware-centric organizations, with meaningful time spent on complex systems rather than component-level work\n\n - Experience leading reliability programs for one or more of:\n \n - AI accelerator or GPU-class compute systems\n \n - Hyperscale or cloud server infrastructure\n \n - Networking platforms, storage systems, or rack-scale infrastructure\n\n - Deep understanding of system-level failure mechanisms — including thermal, power delivery, mechanical, and connector/interconnect failure modes — and how design decisions affect long-term field reliability\n\n - Hands-on experience with FMEA, Weibull analysis, HALT/HASS, qualification planning, failure analysis methodologies, and reliability statistics and modeling\n\n - A track record of driving cross-functional root-cause investigations in fast-moving hardware organizations where schedule pressure is real and accountability is high\n\n - Strong technical judgment — capable of making defensible tradeoffs between reliability targets, cost, schedule, and performance without losing sight of customer expectations\n\n - Excellent communication skills and the credibility to influence design decisions with engineering leads, program managers, and executive stakeholders\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience with liquid-cooled systems, high-density power delivery, or thermal management for high-power AI infrastructure\n\n - Direct experience supporting hyperscale or cloud datacenter deployments at scale, including customer-facing reliability commitments and SLA management\n\n - Demonstrated experience building a reliability organization from early-stage — establishing processes, tooling, and team norms in environments without established infrastructure\n\n - Familiarity with fleet telemetry systems, large-scale field reliability analytics, and data-driven approaches to proactive reliability management\n\n - Experience working closely with ODM or JDM partners in Taiwan or broader Asia, including NPI support and on-site qualification engagement\n\n - Background in high-speed digital systems, GPU compute platforms, or accelerator-based architectures — with an understanding of how these affect system-level reliability behavior\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. 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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.

Job Summary

Etched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters. As a Physical Design Methodology Engineer, you will architect our PD flow from first principles. You will own the infrastructure that allows our design team to iterate at unprecedented speeds, directly accelerating our time-to-market and enabling PPA gains that aren't possible with off-the-shelf CAD methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters. As a Physical Design Methodology Engineer, you will architect our PD flow from first principles. You will own the infrastructure that allows our design team to iterate at unprecedented speeds, directly accelerating our time-to-market and enabling PPA gains that aren't possible with off-the-shelf CAD methodologies.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Architect, build, and maintain our automated RTL-to-GDSII flow, from synthesis through place and route to signoff handoff.\n\n - Automate PD flows end to end, including regression running, run management, and release and version control of flow configurations.\n\n - Build and own the CAD infrastructure supporting PD, including tool version qualification and deployment, and efficient use of compute and licenses.\n\n - Drive dashboards that show the convergence of projects related to PD, including timing, physical verification, and utilization trends.\n\n - Optimize tool flows and work with EDA vendors to evaluate and incorporate the latest features.\n\n - Define reference flows, QoR targets, and delivery checklists for 3rd party physical design services, and audit deliveries against them.\n\n - Partner with block and top-level owners to debug flow issues and encode fixes into the methodology rather than one-off patches.\n\n - Create block level and full chip level PG mesh from scratch using design rule documents, design requirements, and EM/IR feedback.\n\n - Create and maintain a DRC-clean floorplanning flow and enable floorplan signoff checks.\n\n - Drive PPA tuning to optimize tool settings for best power, performance, and area outcomes.\n\n - Establish and maintain timing correlation from pre-route through post-route and between implementation and signoff tools.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 5-10+ years of previous experience with PD or PD methodology/CAD\n\n - Experience building and owning automated RTL-to-GDSII flows used by multiple block owners\n\n - Experience creating block level and full chip level PG mesh from scratch, including interpretation of design rule documents and EM/IR analysis\n\n - Experience with DRC-clean floorplanning flows and automated checks\n\n - Experience with Cadence (Innovus, Genus) or Synopsys ( Fusion Compiler) automated RTL-to-GDSII flows\n\n - Experience with PPA tuning and timing correlation across pre-route, post-route, and signoff environments\n\n - Experience integrating sign-off tools (PrimeTime, Tempus, Voltus, Pegasus, Calibre) into production flows\n\n - Experience with back-end design on advanced process nodes (5nm and below)\n\n - Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology and multi-mode multi-corner setup\n\n - Strong Tcl and Python skills for flow development and automation\n\n - Deeply creative and able to think from first principles\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures\n\n - Familiarity with AI tools for programming/coding\n\n - Experience with compute farm and job scheduler optimization for EDA workloads\n\n - Startup experience or comfort working in fast-paced environments\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

Etched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters. As a Physical Design Engineer, you will own block-level implementation from synthesis through GDSII sign-off. You will drive Block-level & Subsystem PPA Optimization, and collaborate closely with RTL designers to provide actionable feedback, ensuring we iterate at unprecedented speeds to bring our products to market.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with


Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters. As a Physical Design Engineer, you will own block-level implementation from synthesis through GDSII sign-off. You will drive Block-level & Subsystem PPA Optimization, and collaborate closely with RTL designers to provide actionable feedback, ensuring we iterate at unprecedented speeds to bring our products to market.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own block-level and/or subsystem physical design end to end, including floorplanning, synthesis, placement, clock tree synthesis, and routing through GDSII.\n\n - Drive block-level timing closure across all corners and modes, including constraint development, STA debug, and functional and timing ECO implementation.\n\n - Close block-level signoff across EM, IR drop, RC extraction and correlation, and physical verification (DRC, LVS, antenna).\n\n - Generate abstracts, views, and timing budgets for clean hierarchical integration of your blocks into the top level.\n\n - Collaborate with RTL Designers and provide Physical Design feedback to improve PPA.\n\n - Continuously improve the PPA of owned blocks and contribute learnings back into the shared RTL-to-GDSII flow.\n\n - Supervise physical design work outsourced to 3rd party services and be accountable for the quality and closure of delivered blocks.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 5-10+ years of previous experience with PD\n\n - Tools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off\n\n - Experience with back-end design and timing closure on advanced process nodes (5nm and below)\n\n - Experience with Cadence (Innovus, Genus) or Synopsys (Fusion Compiler) automated RTL-to-GDSII flows\n\n - Experience with sign-off tools (PrimeTime, Tempus, Voltus, etc.)\n\n - Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology, power verification, synthesis, scan insertion/ATPG, formal verification, floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing, IR drop, and EM/antenna analysis\n\n - Scripting ability in Tcl, Python, or Perl for flow automation and debug\n\n - Deeply creative and able to think from first principles\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures\n\n - Ability to program with Python or another scripting language\n\n - Familiarity with AI tools for programming/coding\n\n - Startup experience or comfort working in fast-paced environments\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n\n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"127f9760-3069-4152-b882-4e76b8f4ff1d","title":"Physical Design Engineer - Block Level, Subsystem Implementation","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Austin","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-30T04:41:07.225+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressCountry":""}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/127f9760-3069-4152-b882-4e76b8f4ff1d","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/127f9760-3069-4152-b882-4e76b8f4ff1d/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

 

Job Summary

Etched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters. As a Physical Design Engineer, you will own block-level implementation from synthesis through GDSII sign-off. You will drive Block-level & Subsystem PPA Optimization, and collaborate closely with RTL designers to provide actionable feedback, ensuring we iterate at unprecedented speeds to bring our products to market.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

You may be a good fit if you have

 

Strong candidates may also have experience with


Benefits

 

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 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.

This role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n \n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters. As a Physical Design Engineer, you will own block-level implementation from synthesis through GDSII sign-off. You will drive Block-level & Subsystem PPA Optimization, and collaborate closely with RTL designers to provide actionable feedback, ensuring we iterate at unprecedented speeds to bring our products to market.\n\n \n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own block-level and/or subsystem physical design end to end, including floorplanning, synthesis, placement, clock tree synthesis, and routing through GDSII.\n\n - Drive block-level timing closure across all corners and modes, including constraint development, STA debug, and functional and timing ECO implementation.\n\n - Close block-level signoff across EM, IR drop, RC extraction and correlation, and physical verification (DRC, LVS, antenna).\n\n - Generate abstracts, views, and timing budgets for clean hierarchical integration of your blocks into the top level.\n\n - Collaborate with RTL Designers and provide Physical Design feedback to improve PPA.\n\n - Continuously improve the PPA of owned blocks and contribute learnings back into the shared RTL-to-GDSII flow.\n\n - Supervise physical design work outsourced to 3rd party services and be accountable for the quality and closure of delivered blocks.\n\n \n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 5-10+ years of previous experience with PD\n\n - Tools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off\n\n - Experience with back-end design and timing closure on advanced process nodes (5nm and below)\n\n - Experience with Cadence (Innovus, Genus) or Synopsys (Fusion Compiler) automated RTL-to-GDSII flows\n\n - Experience with sign-off tools (PrimeTime, Tempus, Voltus, etc.)\n\n - Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology, power verification, synthesis, scan insertion/ATPG, formal verification, floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing, IR drop, and EM/antenna analysis\n\n - Scripting ability in Tcl, Python, or Perl for flow automation and debug\n\n - Deeply creative and able to think from first principles\n\n \n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures\n\n - Ability to program with Python or another scripting language\n\n - Familiarity with AI tools for programming/coding\n\n - Startup experience or comfort working in fast-paced environments\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n\n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\n\nWe 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.\n\n\n\nThis role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration."},{"id":"045b3672-d7b7-48b5-95e5-3f8793ff819b","title":"Physical Design Engineer - Full Chip Implementation","department":"ASIC","team":"ASIC","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-23T03:30:06.270+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/045b3672-d7b7-48b5-95e5-3f8793ff819b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/045b3672-d7b7-48b5-95e5-3f8793ff819b/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Etched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters. As a top-level PD engineer, you will own full-chip implementation—encompassing floorplanning, P&R, clocking, timing analysis, physical verification, and sign-offs—from synthesis through to GDSII completion. You will lead critical efforts in these areas, leveraging our PD flows to drive aggressive PPA optimization and timing closure. You will collaborate closely with RTL designers to provide actionable feedback, ensuring we iterate at unprecedented speeds to bring our products to market.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters. As a top-level PD engineer, you will own full-chip implementation—encompassing floorplanning, P&R, clocking, timing analysis, physical verification, and sign-offs—from synthesis through to GDSII completion. You will lead critical efforts in these areas, leveraging our PD flows to drive aggressive PPA optimization and timing closure. You will collaborate closely with RTL designers to provide actionable feedback, ensuring we iterate at unprecedented speeds to bring our products to market.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own full-chip clocking across all PVT corners and modes.\n\n - Manage MMMC (Multi-Mode Multi-Corner) timing closure at the top level.\n\n - Own timing constraints and hierarchical timing budgeting between top level and blocks.\n\n - Drive functional and timing ECO closure and achieve final timing signoff for tapeout.\n\n - Own end-to-end physical verification closure at block, sub-system, and full-chip level across DRC, LVS, ERC, antenna, density, fill, and top-level integration.\n\n - Debug complex PV violations across layout, routing, macros, IP, power grid, rule decks, and tool or setup issues, and fix violations directly in layout using Innovus.\n\n - Build a repeatable, tapeout-ready PV methodology with clean runs, waiver discipline, version control, triage, and final signoff reviews.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 10+ years of previous experience with chip planning, top level PD, floorplanning\n\n - Experience with top-level and full-chip closure on advanced process nodes (5nm and below)\n\n - Experience with Cadence (Innovus, Genus) or Synopsys (Fusion Compiler) automated RTL-to-GDSII flows\n\n - Experience with Synopsys PrimeTime and Cadence Tempus for timing signoff\n\n - Experience with Pegasus or Calibre for physical verification signoff\n\n - Experience with hierarchical timing budgeting, constraint management, and ECO closure\n\n - Experience with Cadence Innovus for top-level assembly, routing, and layout fixes\n\n - Deeply creative and able to think from first principles\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures\n\n - Ability to program with Python or another scripting language\n\n - Familiarity with AI tools for programming/coding\n\n - Startup experience or comfort working in fast-paced environments\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n\n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"3f00dfa5-7f63-4dfb-8ef4-4c56307b85d5","title":"Corporate Paralegal","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-21T17:50:16.610+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/3f00dfa5-7f63-4dfb-8ef4-4c56307b85d5","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/3f00dfa5-7f63-4dfb-8ef4-4c56307b85d5/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We're looking for a Corporate Paralegal who wants to take ownership of critical legal work at a rapidly scaling company. You'll work closely with our Legal team and leaders across the business on corporate governance, financings and strategic transactions, Board matters, contracts, entity management, and other major company milestones.

This is a hands-on role with significant ownership. You'll manage important legal processes and records, coordinate complex workstreams, and build systems that help Legal and the broader company move quickly without sacrificing accuracy. If you're excited by complexity, meticulous about details, and energized by the opportunity to build the legal infrastructure of an ambitious company, we'd love to talk.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe're looking for a Corporate Paralegal who wants to take ownership of critical legal work at a rapidly scaling company. You'll work closely with our Legal team and leaders across the business on corporate governance, financings and strategic transactions, Board matters, contracts, entity management, and other major company milestones.\n\n\n\nThis is a hands-on role with significant ownership. You'll manage important legal processes and records, coordinate complex workstreams, and build systems that help Legal and the broader company move quickly without sacrificing accuracy. If you're excited by complexity, meticulous about details, and energized by the opportunity to build the legal infrastructure of an ambitious company, we'd love to talk.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own and maintain corporate records, minute books, resolutions, written consents, governance materials, and other key legal records.\n\n - Support Board and committee processes, including meeting materials, resolutions, minutes, approvals, signatures, and equity plan issuances.\n\n - Support financings, strategic transactions, and other major corporate matters by managing diligence requests, data rooms, transaction checklists, signatures, closing documents, and closing binders.\n\n - Partner with Legal, Finance, People, executives, outside counsel, and other teams to keep complex legal workstreams moving.\n\n - Maintain subsidiary and entity records and coordinate corporate filings, annual reports, foreign qualifications, registered agent matters, and related requirements.\n\n - Support securities and equity-related matters, including director and officer questionnaires, insider lists, stockholder actions, and other corporate compliance processes.\n\n - Help administer commercial agreements, including contract intake, approvals, execution, storage, renewals, and maintaining accurate contract records in Ironclad.\n\n - Coordinate signatures, notarizations, certifications, good-standing certificates, and other transaction and corporate requirements.\n\n - Maintain corporate, governance, transaction, and compliance calendars and ensure critical deadlines and deliverables don't slip.\n\n - Build practical templates, checklists, workflows, and systems that make recurring legal work faster and more reliable.\n\n - Take on new legal and corporate projects as Etched continues to scale.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - 4+ years of experience as a corporate paralegal at a leading law firm, high-growth technology company, or similar environment.\n\n - Experience supporting venture financings, M&A, strategic transactions, tender offers, or other complex corporate matters.\n\n - Strong experience with corporate governance, Board processes, entity management, and maintaining corporate records.\n\n - Experience managing Carta, Ironclad, DocuSign, and virtual data rooms for a variety of diligence requests, transactions, and closing documents.\n\n - Exceptional attention to detail and a high bar for complete and accurate work.\n\n - Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple time-sensitive workstreams at once.\n\n - Sound judgment when handling confidential, privileged, and sensitive information.\n\n - Strong written and verbal communication skills.\n\n - The ability to work effectively with attorneys, executives, outside counsel, and teams across the company.\n\n - A track record of taking ownership, identifying what needs to happen next, and driving work through completion.\n\n - Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where processes are still being built.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Supporting an IPO, public-company readiness, major financing, acquisition, tender offer, or other significant corporate transaction.\n\n - Working both at a leading corporate law firm and in-house at a high-growth company.\n\n - Securities compliance, SEC reporting, Section 16, or public-company governance.\n\n - Equity plans, stock administration, director and officer questionnaires, or stockholder matters.\n\n - Contract lifecycle management, Board management, entity management, or other legal technology.\n\n - Building or scaling legal processes at a rapidly growing company.\n\n - Supporting companies in semiconductors, AI infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, or other technically complex industries.\n\n - A paralegal certificate or equivalent corporate paralegal training.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"b09ced5f-c81a-4fbe-a85e-ed743c991e21","title":"Applied AI Engineer, Kernel Performance","department":"Software","team":"Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-23T17:52:35.163+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/b09ced5f-c81a-4fbe-a85e-ed743c991e21","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/b09ced5f-c81a-4fbe-a85e-ed743c991e21/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Every model release presents a new opportunity to push the frontier on kernel engineering. Future performance breakthroughs will come from AI systems that can understand model architectures and hardware, run thousands of experiments, learn from profiler feedback, and discover the most performant implementations faster than the best engineers.

You will build that system. Your mandate is to build AI systems that autonomously turn newly released model architectures into correct, production-ready implementations optimized for Etched hardware. These systems should explore broader design spaces, learn from every experiment, and reach peak performance faster than any traditional kernel-development workflows.

Etched offers a uniquely tight research loop: proprietary hardware, runtime, kernels, production workloads, and dedicated in-office compute under one roof. You will teach models using proprietary performance signals, iterate on their proposals, and make every experiment improve both the performance optimization system and the hardware it runs on.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

Base Compensation Range

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEvery model release presents a new opportunity to push the frontier on kernel engineering. Future performance breakthroughs will come from AI systems that can understand model architectures and hardware, run thousands of experiments, learn from profiler feedback, and discover the most performant implementations faster than the best engineers.\n\n\n\nYou will build that system. Your mandate is to build AI systems that autonomously turn newly released model architectures into correct, production-ready implementations optimized for Etched hardware. These systems should explore broader design spaces, learn from every experiment, and reach peak performance faster than any traditional kernel-development workflows.\n\n\n\nEtched offers a uniquely tight research loop: proprietary hardware, runtime, kernels, production workloads, and dedicated in-office compute under one roof. You will teach models using proprietary performance signals, iterate on their proposals, and make every experiment improve both the performance optimization system and the hardware it runs on.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own the system that turns new model architectures into verified, production-ready kernels and model mappings.\n\n - Build agents that understand Etched hardware, design experiments, generate implementations, profile them, diagnose bottlenecks, and iterate with our teams, to the limits of model autonomy.\n\n - Design evals covering correctness, numerical stability, latency and efficiency.\n\n - Turn profiler traces, simulation, hardware counters, and expert judgment into structured signals models can learn from.\n\n - Curate proprietary datasets and optimization memory from complete trajectories, expert demonstrations, counterexamples, and production outcomes.\n\n - Build fast, reproducible experiment infrastructure and observability so experiments remain interpretable, trustworthy, and high-throughput.\n\n - Ship model-generated improvements to production and quantify their impact on end-to-end system performance.\n\n - Partner deeply with other architecture teams to shape new abstractions and Etched’s hardware-software roadmap.\n\n - Continuously evaluate new model releases and deploy the best for each stage of the optimization loop.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - A track record of solving hard problems across stacks and domains — you enjoy being dropped into unfamiliar territory and figuring it out\n\n - Comfort with both Python and low-level code: you can read it, modify it, debug it, and direct AI to write it well. We do not care whether you write code from scratch — we care whether you ship things that work.\n\n - Kernel experience: you've written or tuned kernels and can explain the mechanisms and performance impact of optimizations you’ve shipped\n\n - Fluency using AI to learn and ramp on new problems — agentic coding tools, deep research, and frontier models are how you work, not an add-on\n\n - Moving fluidly between research exploration, agentic experimentation, low-level debugging, and production execution.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - First principles thinking on accelerator performance: memory hierarchy, data movement, parallelism, synchronization, and low-precision computation.\n\n - Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-based agents or AI tooling that real users depend on in production environments (beyond calling an API — context engineering, tool integration, orchestration, failure analysis)\n\n - An eval-driven mindset: you measure whether AI systems work before scaling them\n\n - Fine-tuning or post-training, RAG over proprietary data, and/or multi-agent orchestration\n\n - High agency and comfort with ambiguity — you find the real problem to solve\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nBase Compensation Range\n\n - $150,000 – $225,000\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. 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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.

Job Summary

Etched is seeking a Manufacturing Design Program Manager to drive technical manufacturing readiness across new product introduction and mass production for our transformer-specific AI systems. This highly cross-functional individual contributor role sits at the intersection of design engineering, test engineering, SMT, FATP, supply chain, and operations. You will lead manufacturing execution from early design-for-manufacturing (DFM) reviews through production ramp, ensuring products are designed for manufacturability and successfully transitioned into high-volume production.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Experience building AI servers, accelerator systems, networking hardware, storage systems, or other high-performance compute platforms.

Familiarity with SMT manufacturing, factory operations, automated test systems, or final system integration.

Experience with manufacturing yield analytics, SPC methodologies, process capability metrics, or manufacturing data systems.

Experience with liquid-cooled systems, advanced packaging, or high-density compute platforms.

Experience partnering closely with ASIC, systems, thermal, reliability, or validation engineering teams.

Experience working in fast-paced startup environments bringing first-generation hardware products into production.

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is seeking a Manufacturing Design Program Manager to drive technical manufacturing readiness across new product introduction and mass production for our transformer-specific AI systems. This highly cross-functional individual contributor role sits at the intersection of design engineering, test engineering, SMT, FATP, supply chain, and operations. You will lead manufacturing execution from early design-for-manufacturing (DFM) reviews through production ramp, ensuring products are designed for manufacturability and successfully transitioned into high-volume production.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Drive manufacturing technical readiness across NPI and mass production in close partnership with hardware design, test engineering, SMT engineering, FATP process engineering, supply chain, and operations teams.\n\n - Lead DFM reviews across L6, L10, and L11 assemblies, identifying manufacturability risks, integration challenges, and process constraints early in the product development cycle.\n\n - Own manufacturing readiness for assigned programs, tracking build readiness, factory execution, process capability, yield, schedule, and key manufacturing risks.\n\n - Coordinate cross-functional execution across prototype, EVT, DVT, PVT, and production builds, ensuring manufacturing deliverables remain on schedule.\n\n - Partner with contract manufacturers and supply chain teams to develop production plans, line bring-up schedules, tooling readiness, and factory ramp strategies.\n\n - Drive issue resolution during engineering and production builds through structured root cause analysis and cross-functional coordination.\n\n - Monitor manufacturing KPIs including yield, cycle time, quality, and factory readiness while driving continuous improvement initiatives.\n\n - Prepare and communicate manufacturing status, risks, mitigation plans, and execution updates to engineering leadership and executive stakeholders.\n\n - Partner closely with design engineering to ensure manufacturing considerations are incorporated throughout the product development lifecycle.\n\n - Travel to domestic and international manufacturing partners as needed to support production readiness and critical builds.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - 7+ years of experience in hardware engineering, with experience transitioning into Technical Program Management, Design Program Management, or Manufacturing Program Management.\n\n - Strong preference for candidates with a background in mechanical, electrical, systems, or manufacturing engineering who have led cross-functional hardware programs through NPI and production.\n\n - Experience managing manufacturing readiness for complex electromechanical systems or high-performance compute hardware.\n\n - Strong understanding of manufacturing development phases including EVT, DVT, PVT, and production ramp.\n\n - Experience leading DFM reviews and partnering closely with hardware engineering throughout product development.\n\n - Experience working directly with contract manufacturers, FATP partners, or ODM/OEM manufacturing operations.\n\n - Excellent cross-functional program management skills with the ability to coordinate engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations teams.\n\n - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience driving manufacturing issue resolution.\n\n - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting program status, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership.\n\n - Willingness to work in-person from our San Jose office and travel internationally to manufacturing partners as needed.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\nExperience building AI servers, accelerator systems, networking hardware, storage systems, or other high-performance compute platforms.\n\nFamiliarity with SMT manufacturing, factory operations, automated test systems, or final system integration.\n\nExperience with manufacturing yield analytics, SPC methodologies, process capability metrics, or manufacturing data systems.\n\nExperience with liquid-cooled systems, advanced packaging, or high-density compute platforms.\n\nExperience partnering closely with ASIC, systems, thermal, reliability, or validation engineering teams.\n\nExperience working in fast-paced startup environments bringing first-generation hardware products into production.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

Etched is seeking a Test Technical Program Manager to drive manufacturing test strategy and execution across new product introduction and mass production for our transformer-specific AI systems. This highly cross-functional individual contributor role sits at the intersection of hardware engineering, test engineering, manufacturing engineering, firmware, software, supply chain, and operations. You will own the program management of manufacturing test development—from early architecture and test strategy through factory deployment, production ramp, and yield optimization—ensuring every system ships with robust, scalable, and high-quality manufacturing test coverage.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is seeking a Test Technical Program Manager to drive manufacturing test strategy and execution across new product introduction and mass production for our transformer-specific AI systems. This highly cross-functional individual contributor role sits at the intersection of hardware engineering, test engineering, manufacturing engineering, firmware, software, supply chain, and operations. You will own the program management of manufacturing test development—from early architecture and test strategy through factory deployment, production ramp, and yield optimization—ensuring every system ships with robust, scalable, and high-quality manufacturing test coverage.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Drive end-to-end execution of manufacturing test programs across prototype, EVT, DVT, PVT, and mass production builds.\n\n - Partner with hardware, firmware, software, systems, validation, and manufacturing engineering teams to define manufacturing test strategy, milestones, and deliverables.\n\n - Coordinate development and deployment of board-level, subsystem, and system-level manufacturing test solutions across L6, L10, and L11 assemblies.\n\n - Drive cross-functional execution to ensure manufacturing test hardware, software, fixtures, automation, and infrastructure are ready to support production milestones.\n\n - Partner with contract manufacturers and FATP partners to deploy, validate, and scale manufacturing test processes globally.\n\n - Track manufacturing test readiness, station bring-up, throughput, capacity, coverage, and factory deployment status for assigned programs.\n\n - Lead cross-functional resolution of manufacturing test issues during engineering and production builds through structured root cause analysis and execution tracking.\n\n - Drive manufacturing test yield improvements, failure analysis, retest reduction, and continuous optimization of factory test processes.\n\n - Prepare and communicate manufacturing test status, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans to engineering leadership and executive stakeholders.\n\n - Travel to domestic and international manufacturing partners to support production readiness, factory bring-up, and critical builds.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - 7+ years of experience in hardware test engineering, with experience transitioning into a Technical Program Management role.\n\n - Strong preference for candidates with a background in electrical, systems, validation, or test engineering who have led cross-functional hardware programs through NPI and production.\n\n - Experience managing manufacturing test programs for complex hardware systems from development through production.\n\n - Strong understanding of manufacturing development phases including EVT, DVT, PVT, and production ramp.\n\n - Experience partnering closely with hardware, firmware, software, validation, and manufacturing engineering teams.\n\n - Experience working with contract manufacturers, FATP partners, or ODM/OEM manufacturing organizations.\n\n - Understanding of manufacturing test concepts including test coverage, station architecture, fixture development, automation, yield analysis, and failure diagnostics.\n\n - Excellent cross-functional program management skills with the ability to coordinate engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams.\n\n - Strong communication skills with experience presenting technical program status, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership.\n\n - Willingness to work in-person from our San Jose office and travel internationally to manufacturing partners as needed.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience developing manufacturing test for AI servers, accelerator systems, networking hardware, storage systems, or other high-performance compute platforms.\n\n - Familiarity with board-level test, system-level test, boundary scan, functional test, burn-in, HASS/HALT, or factory automation.\n\n - Experience with automated test equipment, test software frameworks, fixture development, or manufacturing diagnostics.\n\n - Experience analyzing manufacturing yield, failure Pareto, and test escape data to improve product quality.\n\n - Experience working closely with ASIC, firmware, systems, validation, reliability, or hardware engineering teams.\n\n - Experience supporting first-generation hardware products through factory bring-up in a fast-paced startup environment.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

We are using AI to build and ship AI hardware. Etched’s production ramp requires thousands of interdependent, chained decisions that involve product configurations, material availability, production capacity, capital commitments, complex logistics, field deployments, customer commitments, and more. You will embed with Platform, Production, Supply Chain, Finance, and manufacturing partners to build the agentic systems that make those decisions faster and better.

You will own the development of agentic systems that loop signal to execution: understanding what Etched needs to manufacture and deliver; modelling production plans and scenarios; triaging changes and the unexpected; capturing decisions in the systems we execute through - and designing agents that augment and scale our teams. Success is measured by what we deliver, the schedules we attain, our ramp speed, and time from signal to action. Production is the product.

Etched offers a unique environment to tackle real supply-chain challenges and production decisions with frontier model capabilities: we have our own in-office cluster to run agentic systems on, all teams are in-person, and every cluster we deploy offers an opportunity to raise the bar across production. You will build the frontier systems that help us coordinate execution and learn from every build.

Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are using AI to build and ship AI hardware. Etched’s production ramp requires thousands of interdependent, chained decisions that involve product configurations, material availability, production capacity, capital commitments, complex logistics, field deployments, customer commitments, and more. You will embed with Platform, Production, Supply Chain, Finance, and manufacturing partners to build the agentic systems that make those decisions faster and better.\n\n\n\nYou will own the development of agentic systems that loop signal to execution: understanding what Etched needs to manufacture and deliver; modelling production plans and scenarios; triaging changes and the unexpected; capturing decisions in the systems we execute through - and designing agents that augment and scale our teams. Success is measured by what we deliver, the schedules we attain, our ramp speed, and time from signal to action. Production is the product.\n\n\n\nEtched offers a unique environment to tackle real supply-chain challenges and production decisions with frontier model capabilities: we have our own in-office cluster to run agentic systems on, all teams are in-person, and every cluster we deploy offers an opportunity to raise the bar across production. You will build the frontier systems that help us coordinate execution and learn from every build.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Build, deploy, and operate AI systems that run S&OP, material planning, build readiness, manufacturing partner execution, quality, logistics, and customer deployments.\n\n - Embed with Platform, Production, Supply Chain, Finance, and other teams to identify high-leverage decisions, turn them into executable workflows augmented by agentic systems, and own outcomes.\n\n - Build operational models connecting demand, product configurations, revisions, BOMs, supply, inventory, cost, capacity, builds, tests, quality, and shipments.\n\n - Build agents that craft executable plans considering demand, supply, capacity, inventory, capital, schedules, and risk - and keep those plans current as constraints change.\n\n - Propagate design changes through material exposure, sourcing, cost, factory and test readiness, production schedules, and delivery commitments.\n\n - Build production and quality agents that coordinate clear-to-build, work in progress, bottlenecks, testing, excursions, genealogy, containment, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.\n\n - Design historical replays and live evals tied to operating outcomes including forecast quality, schedule attainment, inventory, cost, yield, throughput, and resolution time.\n\n - Continuously evaluate frontier models and system optimization methods.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - A track record of solving hard problems across stacks and domains. You enjoy being dropped into unfamiliar territory and figuring it out\n\n - Comfort with Python and code: you can read it, modify it, debug it, and direct AI to write it well. We do not care whether you write code from scratch. We care whether you ship things that work\n\n - Fluency using AI to learn and ramp on new problems; agentic coding tools, deep research, and frontier models are how you work, not an add-on\n\n - Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-based agents or AI tooling that real users depend on (beyond just calling an AP - context engineering, tool integration, orchestration, failure analysis)\n\n - An eval-driven mindset: you measure whether AI systems actually work before scaling them\n\n - High agency and comfort with ambiguity. You can find the problem, not just solve the stated one\n\n - Worked in complex hardware, manufacturing, supply chain, S&OP, operations research, or enterprise planning, ideally through periods of hyperscale\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - ERP/MRP, PLM, MES, and/or QMS\n\n - BOMs and ECOs, NPI and ramp, factory test, or quality systems\n\n - Forecasting, constraint optimization, simulation, or digital twins\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"dd33868f-1651-42fd-b6b6-7ffa9530e9a2","title":"Finance Operations","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-27T22:58:50.423+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/dd33868f-1651-42fd-b6b6-7ffa9530e9a2","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/dd33868f-1651-42fd-b6b6-7ffa9530e9a2/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Finance Operations is the team that keeps the rails of Etched's finance machine running as the company scales -- the policies, processes, systems, and reporting that let everyone spend, buy, pay, and see the numbers cleanly and fast. Right now that work outpaces the people doing it.

You'll join as one of the first members of our Finance Operations team, partnering directly with our Finance Operations Lead to build the systems, processes, and capabilities that power the company. This is a true generalist role, with exposure to nearly every operational function in Finance and the opportunity to grow alongside the business.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nFinance Operations is the team that keeps the rails of Etched's finance machine running as the company scales -- the policies, processes, systems, and reporting that let everyone spend, buy, pay, and see the numbers cleanly and fast. Right now that work outpaces the people doing it.\n\nYou'll join as one of the first members of our Finance Operations team, partnering directly with our Finance Operations Lead to build the systems, processes, and capabilities that power the company. This is a true generalist role, with exposure to nearly every operational function in Finance and the opportunity to grow alongside the business.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Build and scale new finance capabilities, including budgeting, executive analytics, inventory processes, reporting, and operational tooling.\n\n - Design, improve, and document finance processes, controls, and policies across procurement, inventory, forecasting, and order-to-cash.\n\n - Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning Finance, Engineering, Operations, People, Legal, Talent, and GTM.\n\n - Own finance systems and automation, including NetSuite integrations, AI tooling, Ramp workflows, and finance service desk operations.\n\n - Support monthly business reviews, vendor reconciliations, and company-wide financial reporting and planning.\n\n - Act as a high-leverage generalist, jumping into new challenges as the company scales and serving as the first point of contact for finance operations.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 3+ years of experience in finance, business operations, strategic finance, consulting, or another highly analytical operating role.\n\n - High ownership and comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where priorities change frequently.\n\n - A track record of building new processes and systems from scratch rather than simply operating existing ones.\n\n - Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage dozens of parallel workstreams without dropping details.\n\n - Strong analytical skills and advanced spreadsheet proficiency. You can quickly structure ambiguous problems and turn data into decisions.\n\n - Excellent written communication skills with a bias toward documentation, process design, and creating clarity.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Background in industrial engineering, operations, finance, or business fits naturally.\n\n - Exposure to an ERP like NetSuite or spend tools like Ramp, comfort with spreadsheets and light analytics/BI, or manufacturing / hardware-ops experience.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"7b34b2af-a0dc-42fa-8c19-7e27cf9c68af","title":"Thermal Manufacturing Engineer","department":"Production","team":"Production","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-27T23:45:11.869+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/7b34b2af-a0dc-42fa-8c19-7e27cf9c68af","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/7b34b2af-a0dc-42fa-8c19-7e27cf9c68af/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Thermal Manufacturing Engineer to own the development, qualification, and scaling of thermal management manufacturing processes for Etched's silicon-to-system products. This role is focused on liquid cooling systems—primarily cold plates—and the manufacturing processes required to bring them from prototype to high-volume production.

You will be the technical authority on cold plate fabrication methods including skiving, brazing, friction stir welding, diffusion bonding, and related processes. You'll work hands-on with contract manufacturing partners and internal hardware, thermal, and systems teams to ensure our liquid cooling solutions meet the demanding performance, quality, and reliability requirements of frontier AI infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities


You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a Thermal Manufacturing Engineer to own the development, qualification, and scaling of thermal management manufacturing processes for Etched's silicon-to-system products. This role is focused on liquid cooling systems—primarily cold plates—and the manufacturing processes required to bring them from prototype to high-volume production.\n\n\n\nYou will be the technical authority on cold plate fabrication methods including skiving, brazing, friction stir welding, diffusion bonding, and related processes. You'll work hands-on with contract manufacturing partners and internal hardware, thermal, and systems teams to ensure our liquid cooling solutions meet the demanding performance, quality, and reliability requirements of frontier AI infrastructure.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own the end-to-end manufacturing engineering for thermal components and assemblies (focus on cold plates & manifolds), from NPI through mass production.\n\n - Develop, qualify, and optimize cold plate fabrication processes including but not limited to skiving, vacuum brazing, friction stir welding, diffusion bonding, gun drilling, and extrusion-based channel formation.\n\n - Define process parameters, controls, and acceptance criteria for each manufacturing method; establish capability benchmarks (Cpk, yield, leak rate, flatness, pressure drop).\n\n - Partner with thermal and mechanical design teams early in development to drive DFx for liquid cooling system designs.\n\n - Lead process qualification and first-article inspection at CM/supplier sites; own PFMEA, control plans, and process validation documentation.\n\n - Drive root cause analysis and corrective action for manufacturing defects—leaks, delamination, warpage, insufficient bonding, dimensional non-conformance.\n\n - Evaluate and qualify new suppliers and manufacturing technologies for cold plates and thermal interface materials.\n\n - Define and monitor key manufacturing KPIs: yield, leak rate, flatness, cycle time, rework rate, and cost per unit.\n\n - Collaborate with Manufacturing Test to integrate cold plate pressure testing, flow testing, and thermal performance validation into production lines.\n\n - Support failure analysis and closed-loop feedback between factory, design, and reliability teams for thermal-related field issues.\n\n - Build manufacturing dashboards and reporting for cold plate yield, defect pareto, and process capability trends.\n\n - Drive continuous improvement in cold plate cost, cycle time, and quality through systematic DOEs and process optimization.\n\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - 7+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or thermal systems manufacturing, with direct hands-on experience producing liquid cold plates or heat exchangers.\n\n - Demonstrated expertise in two or more of the following cold plate fabrication processes: skiving, vacuum brazing, friction stir welding, diffusion bonding, gun drilling, or extrusion-based channel formation.\n\n - Strong understanding of aluminum and copper alloy properties, braze alloy selection, and metallurgical failure modes relevant to thermal hardware.\n\n - Experience qualifying cold plate manufacturers and running process capability studies (Cpk, GR&R) for leak rate, flatness, pressure drop, and thermal resistance.\n\n - Hands-on experience with cold plate inspection and test methods: helium leak testing, hydrostatic pressure testing, flow/pressure-drop characterization, flatness measurement.\n\n - Experience with DFM/DFY reviews for cold plate and liquid cooling system designs.\n\n - Track record of driving root cause analysis and corrective action for cold plate manufacturing defects in production.\n\n - Experience working directly with contract manufacturers and thermal component suppliers, preferably in Asia.\n\n - Familiarity with system-level liquid cooling architectures (single-loop, CDU-based, direct liquid cooling) and how cold plate manufacturing choices affect system-level performance.\n\n - Strong technical documentation skills: PFMEA, control plans, work instructions, first-article inspection reports.\n\n - Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field.\n\n - Prior experience in server, HPC, datacenter, or power electronics thermal management is strongly preferred.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. 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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.

Job Summary

We are standing up an in-house prototyping division at our 80,000 square foot Milpitas facility: a quick-turn machine shop and sheet metal cell, a system assembly and integration area, and a prototype SMT line. The outcome you are hired to deliver is simple to state and hard to do: any Etched engineer can get a prototype part made with same-day or next-day turnaround. You own the entire outcome required to make that true — hiring, shop setup, process, and execution.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are standing up an in-house prototyping division at our 80,000 square foot Milpitas facility: a quick-turn machine shop and sheet metal cell, a system assembly and integration area, and a prototype SMT line. The outcome you are hired to deliver is simple to state and hard to do: any Etched engineer can get a prototype part made with same-day or next-day turnaround. You own the entire outcome required to make that true — hiring, shop setup, process, and execution.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own the end-to-end stand-up of the prototyping division: space planning, equipment selection and procurement, facility improvements, permits, and commissioning of the machine shop, sheet metal cell, assembly area, and prototype SMT line\n\n - Hire, lead, and develop a team of machinists, fabricators, and assembly technicians.\n\n - Run day-to-day operations against the division's core metric: same-day or next-day turnaround on prototype parts for engineering\n\n - Build the systems that make a shop run: work intake and prioritization, quoting, scheduling, traceability, inventory and vendor-managed consumables, and preventive maintenance\n\n - Own the division budget (capex and opex), make build-vs-buy calls, and manage relationships with machine dealers, riggers, and overflow vendors\n\n - Stand up quality infrastructure: first-article inspection, calibration program, cross-section/failure-analysis lab, and inspection criteria for incoming and in-process work\n\n - Partner daily with mechanical, electrical, and thermal engineering teams to close design-for-manufacturability feedback loops and pull schedules in.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, or other engineering discipline; OR 4+ years of professional experience in manufacturing or prototype operations in lieu of a degree\n\n - 3+ years of experience in manufacturing, machine shop, or hardware prototyping operations\n\n - 2+ years of experience directly leading technicians, machinists, or manufacturing teams\n\n - Hands-on experience with CNC machining and/or sheet metal fabrication processes\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Experience standing up a machine shop, prototype lab, or manufacturing line from an empty floor: equipment selection, rigging, utilities, and permits\n\n - Working knowledge across the processes we run: 3-axis CNC milling, manual machining, waterjet cutting, CNC press brake forming, welding, and hardware insertion\n\n - Experience with PCBA/SMT NPI processes (stencil printing, pick and place, reflow, AOI, X-ray, rework) or willingness to build that capability with a strong process engineer\n\n - Experience with liquid-cooled systems, server/rack-scale hardware, or data center equipment assembly and test\n\n - Familiarity with California manufacturing compliance: Cal/OSHA, CUPA/HMBP hazmat programs, BAAQMD air permits, wastewater discharge\n\n - Experience implementing ERP/MES or lightweight traceability systems in a job-shop or NPI environment\n\n - Ability to personally run a mill, brake, or lathe when the queue demands it\n\n - Experience in a high-growth startup or program-driven environment (aerospace, automotive, consumer hardware NPI)\n\n - Track record of hiring and retaining skilled trades talent in a competitive market\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. 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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.

Job Summary

As our first hire on the technical accounting and financial reporting team, you will be a key architect behind some of our most critical accounting initiatives. From implementing our revenue, inventory, and warranty policies, to building our external financial reporting capability from 0 to 1, we are looking for a driven and talented accounting lead to execute on some of our most important day-to-day financial operations.

You will work closely with the leadership across go-to-market, finance, and legal to build out our deal desk playbook to execute novel structures and ensure the company can continue to scale with accurate, compliant, and well-supported financial statements. This is a high-trust role that will require end-to-end ownership over key strategic projects. We’re looking for the type of individual that is constantly looking to improve existing processes and do deep research on high leverage projects.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nAs our first hire on the technical accounting and financial reporting team, you will be a key architect behind some of our most critical accounting initiatives. From implementing our revenue, inventory, and warranty policies, to building our external financial reporting capability from 0 to 1, we are looking for a driven and talented accounting lead to execute on some of our most important day-to-day financial operations.\n\n\n\nYou will work closely with the leadership across go-to-market, finance, and legal to build out our deal desk playbook to execute novel structures and ensure the company can continue to scale with accurate, compliant, and well-supported financial statements. This is a high-trust role that will require end-to-end ownership over key strategic projects. We’re looking for the type of individual that is constantly looking to improve existing processes and do deep research on high leverage projects.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own end-to-end revenue accounting policies under ASC 606 (or IFRS 15), including review of complex contracts, multiple performance obligations, variable consideration, and non-standard deal terms\n\n - Partner with Go-to-market, Legal, and the Deal Desk function to assess revenue treatment for new products, bundled offerings, and non-standard contracts before deals close\n\n - Ensure Netsuite’s Advanced Revenue Management (ARM) is implemented in accordance with technical guidance and compliant with all internal and external accounting standards\n\n - Research and document the company's position on complex and emerging accounting issues (e.g., R&D NRE, leases, stock-based compensation, debt/equity instruments, impairments)\n\n - Draft technical memos and accounting position papers for review by controller and external auditors\n\n - Provide guidance on Inventory, Cost of Sales, Warranty Technical accounting guidance and serve as the internal subject matter expert on technical accounting matters\n\n - Lead preparation of external financial statements and footnote disclosures (10-K/10-Q if public, or audited financials if private)\n\n - Ensure compliance with GAAP/IFRS, SEC reporting requirements (if applicable), and internal accounting policies\n\n - Sign-off on the quarterly and annual close process as it relates to revenue and technical accounting areas\n\n - Own Equity related financial reporting: tool selection, data conversion, financial reporting related to Equity\n\n - Build, manage, and develop a team of revenue and technical accounting professionals\n\n - Strengthening internal controls (SOX, if applicable) related to revenue and financial reporting\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA required\n\n - 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant time in public accounting (Big 4 preferred) and/or a corporate technical accounting/revenue role\n\n - Deep expertise in ASC 606 and broad technical accounting knowledge across multiple areas of GAAP\n\n - Experience with SEC reporting and public company requirements strongly preferred\n\n - Prior people management experience, with a track record of building and developing high-performing teams\n\n - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex accounting concepts for non-accounting stakeholders\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Experience building the technical accounting and financial reporting function from 0 to 1 at a high-growth, venture-backed company.\n\n - Experience in inventory accounting, manufacturing cost accounting, and hardware revenue recognition, including warranty reserves, NRE, and complex customer contracts.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. 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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.

Job Summary

We're looking for a technically exceptional accounting leader to own our external financial reporting and equity accounting functions as we scale. You'll lead our SEC reporting process, oversee equity accounting, and help build the reporting infrastructure, controls, and systems that enable a fast-growing public-company-ready finance organization. This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex technical accounting challenges while building processes from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe're looking for a technically exceptional accounting leader to own our external financial reporting and equity accounting functions as we scale. You'll lead our SEC reporting process, oversee equity accounting, and help build the reporting infrastructure, controls, and systems that enable a fast-growing public-company-ready finance organization. This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex technical accounting challenges while building processes from the ground up.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own stock-based compensation accounting, equity reconciliations, EPS and dilution calculations, and equity-related SEC disclosures.\n\n - Partner with Payroll, Legal, and Stock Administration to ensure accurate recording of equity transactions and alignment between the cap table, equity systems, and general ledger.\n\n - Lead the preparation and filing of Forms 10-Q, 10-K, financial statement footnotes, MD&A, XBRL tagging, and other SEC reporting requirements.\n\n - Serve as the primary accounting partner for external auditors, maintain SOX controls, and evaluate new accounting standards and SEC reporting requirements.\n\n - Lead the selection, implementation, and optimization of Workiva (or a similar reporting platform), building scalable reporting workflows and automating manual processes.\n\n - Research and document technical accounting positions for complex transactions, including equity modifications and other non-routine accounting matters\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field.\n\n - CPA required (or actively pursuing).\n\n - 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant exposure to SEC reporting (public company or Big 4/public accounting with SEC clients).\n\n - Strong working knowledge of US GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, and XBRL.\n\n - Hands-on experience with equity accounting (stock-based compensation, EPS, APIC roll-forwards).\n\n - Experience with external reporting/disclosure management software Workiva or alternatives\n\n - Advanced Excel skills; experience with ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite,)\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Big 4 public accounting\n\n - Experience with equity management platforms (Carta, Shareworks, Equity Edge, Fedility, or Solium).\n\n - Prior experience leading a system implementation or process improvement initiative.\n\n - Experience in a high-growth or newly public company environment.\n\n - Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines during close periods.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"ba35dfd4-168a-46c9-884a-f02570ad8a99","title":"Power Integrity Engineer","department":"Platform","team":"Platform","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-30T06:14:58.694+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ba35dfd4-168a-46c9-884a-f02570ad8a99","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/ba35dfd4-168a-46c9-884a-f02570ad8a99/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Power Integrity (PI) Engineer to join our platform electrical engineering team. In this role, you will own the power integrity methodology for high-power PCB and system designs — from early architecture through final release — ensuring robust power delivery to high-performance ASICs and supporting components across all operating conditions.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are looking for a Power Integrity (PI) Engineer to join our platform electrical engineering team. In this role, you will own the power integrity methodology for high-power PCB and system designs — from early architecture through final release — ensuring robust power delivery to high-performance ASICs and supporting components across all operating conditions.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Perform pre- and post-layout PDN analysis for high-current ASIC power rails: target impedance profiling, decoupling capacitor selection and placement optimization, and plane resonance analysis.\n\n - Execute DC IR-drop and current density simulations; define copper weight, plane shapes, via stitching, and layer allocation requirements for PCB designers.\n\n - Conduct AC impedance analysis from VRM output through package and die, including ESR/ESL modeling of the full decoupling network.\n\n - Develop and validate VRM models; analyze load transient response, AVP/load-line behavior, and multiphase converter performance against ASIC power specifications.\n\n - Perform power-plane thermal co-simulation and work with mechanical teams on thermal-electrical tradeoffs for high-current delivery.\n\n - Drive design rule checks for PI compliance; work with layout teams in Cadence Allegro / Sigrity PowerDC/PowerSI or Ansys SIwave.\n\n - Collaborate with power design, PCB layout, and ASIC/package teams to define power delivery architecture and review guidelines early in the product lifecycle.\n\n - Support bring-up, debug rail-level issues (droop, ripple, transient excursions), and document root-cause findings with clear corrective actions.\n\n - Develop and maintain simulation-to-hardware correlation databases to continuously improve PDN modeling accuracy.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline.\n\n - 5+ years of hands-on PI experience on high-current, high-performance designs (ASIC/CPU/GPU power delivery, server boards, or accelerator platforms).\n\n - Proficiency with industry PI EDA tools (Ansys SIwave, Cadence Sigrity PowerDC/PowerSI/OptimizePI, or equivalent).\n\n - Strong understanding of target impedance methodology, decoupling network design, plane resonances, and anti-resonance mitigation.\n\n - Experience with DC IR-drop analysis, current density limits, and via/plane current-carrying capacity.\n\n - Working knowledge of VRM fundamentals: buck converter operation, multiphase design, transient response, and load-line/AVP concepts.\n\n - Working knowledge of multi-layer PCB stack-up design and power plane allocation strategies.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Prior work in data center, AI/ML accelerator, networking, or high-performance computing (HPC) hardware environments.\n\n - Experience with vertical power delivery, high-current lateral delivery tradeoffs, or 48V-to-point-of-load architectures.\n\n - Package-level PDN co-analysis and experience working with die/package power models from ASIC teams.\n\n - Experience scripting automated PI simulation flows using Python or MATLAB to reduce manual simulation turnaround time.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary
Etched is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Software Engineer to build the software platform that powers manufacturing test across new product introduction and mass production for our frontier AI systems.

This is a software engineering role embedded within Manufacturing Test Engineering, working closely with hardware, firmware, software, quality, and factory operations. You'll build the backend services, APIs, data pipelines, release infrastructure, and test station software that enable scalable, automated manufacturing across our global factory network. Your work will help ensure every Etched system can be built, tested, and deployed with speed, quality, and traceability.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\nEtched is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Software Engineer to build the software platform that powers manufacturing test across new product introduction and mass production for our frontier AI systems.\n\n\nThis is a software engineering role embedded within Manufacturing Test Engineering, working closely with hardware, firmware, software, quality, and factory operations. You'll build the backend services, APIs, data pipelines, release infrastructure, and test station software that enable scalable, automated manufacturing across our global factory network. Your work will help ensure every Etched system can be built, tested, and deployed with speed, quality, and traceability.\n\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Design and build backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that support manufacturing test and factory operations.\n\n - Own software for manufacturing release management, deployment, versioning, and traceability across production environments.\n\n - Develop scalable manufacturing data platforms for test results, yield analysis, genealogy, and production reporting.\n\n - Build reusable manufacturing test station applications, operator interfaces, and automation frameworks.\n\n - Integrate manufacturing software with MES, SFIS, and other factory systems used by contract manufacturers.\n\n - Partner with Manufacturing Test, Hardware, Firmware, Software, Quality, and NPI teams to support product development through production ramp.\n\n - Productionize prototype engineering tools into reliable, production-ready manufacturing software.\n\n - Travel to domestic and international manufacturing partners to support factory bring-up and production deployments.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - 6+ years of experience building production software, backend services, or data platforms.\n\n - Strong Python development experience (or equivalent expertise in Go, Java, C#, or TypeScript with Python proficiency).\n\n - Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, CI/CD, version control, code review, debugging, and production monitoring.\n\n - Experience designing scalable APIs, databases, data models, and distributed systems.\n\n - Experience integrating software with external systems and building reliable production services.\n\n - Experience developing internal applications, dashboards, or operator-facing software.\n\n - Comfortable owning technical architecture and building greenfield software platforms.\n\n - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\n\n - Willingness to work onsite from our San Jose office and travel internationally to manufacturing partners as needed.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Manufacturing software, factory automation, MES, SFIS, or production operations.\n\n - Manufacturing test software, hardware validation, or automated test infrastructure.\n\n - Yield analysis, manufacturing analytics, traceability, or genealogy systems.\n\n - Firmware release tooling or embedded software development.\n\n - AI servers, accelerator systems, networking hardware, storage systems, or other high-performance compute platforms.\n\n - Supporting first-generation hardware products through manufacturing scale-up in a fast-paced startup environment.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch + dinner in our office\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

Join our team and take the lead in illuminating the performance landscape of our cutting-edge ML accelerator. We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to design and develop a sophisticated performance analysis tool, tailored specifically for our hardware. You will be instrumental in creating the essential tooling that enables our ML engineers and customers to understand workload behavior, identify performance bottlenecks, and unlock the full potential of our hardware, accelerating the most demanding ML applications in the world. This is a unique opportunity to shape performance analysis for novel hardware from the ground up.

During your internship, you may:

Representative projects

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nJoin our team and take the lead in illuminating the performance landscape of our cutting-edge ML accelerator. We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to design and develop a sophisticated performance analysis tool, tailored specifically for our hardware. You will be instrumental in creating the essential tooling that enables our ML engineers and customers to understand workload behavior, identify performance bottlenecks, and unlock the full potential of our hardware, accelerating the most demanding ML applications in the world. This is a unique opportunity to shape performance analysis for novel hardware from the ground up.\n\n\n\nDuring your internship, you may:\n\n - Build components of our performance analysis and profiling infrastructure.\n\n - Collect and analyze performance data from our custom ML accelerators, including hardware counters, execution traces, and memory behavior.\n\n - Develop tooling to trace host-side runtime activity, system behavior, and accelerator execution.\n\n - Help correlate performance events across CPUs, accelerators, storage, networking, and distributed workloads.\n\n - Build analysis and visualization tools that help engineers identify performance bottlenecks and optimize models.\n\n - Work alongside hardware, compiler, firmware, and inference engineers to understand performance challenges and develop tools that improve developer productivity.\n \n \n\nRepresentative projects\n\n - Implement the data collection framework for hardware performance counters on a custom PCIe-based accelerator.\n\n - Develop a user-space service for low-overhead tracing of accelerator activity.\n\n - Design and build a correlated timeline view visualizing CPU API calls, driver submissions, PCIe transfers, and accelerator execution units.\n\n - Create an analysis pass to detect and quantify memory access inefficiencies or PCIe bandwidth saturation while transacting on a PCIe-attached accelerator.\n \n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Strong programming skills in C++ or Rust. Experience with Python is a plus.\n\n - Solid understanding of computer architecture, including CPUs, GPUs or AI accelerators, memory hierarchies, and parallel programming.\n\n - Experience or strong interest in low-level performance analysis, profiling, and performance optimization.\n\n - Familiarity with performance analysis tools such as Nsight, VTune, Xprof, Perfetto, or similar tools is a plus.\n\n - Experience or strong interest in operating systems, compilers, firmware, drivers, or other low-level systems software.\n\n - Passion for understanding how complex systems behave under real workloads and building tools that help other engineers optimize performance.\n\n - Strong problem-solving skills and curiosity to learn quickly in a fast-paced engineering environment.\n \n \n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Direct experience developing performance analysis or debugging tools.\n\n - Experience with ML accelerator architectures (GPUs, TPUs, etc.).\n\n - Experience with kernel-mode driver development (Linux or Windows).\n \n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"42c1179a-e709-4f2f-b793-9f6818639a95","title":"CNC Machinist","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-14T20:55:02.200+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/42c1179a-e709-4f2f-b793-9f6818639a95","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/42c1179a-e709-4f2f-b793-9f6818639a95/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary

Hardware as ambitious as we are building is won or lost in iteration speed. To meet that requirement, we are standing up an in-house quick-turn prototyping shop at our 80,000 square foot Milpitas facility: CNC machining, a full sheet metal cell (waterjet + CNC press brake), and system assembly. As one of the first machinist/fabricators on the floor, you will take parts from CAD to finished metal the same week — sometimes the same day — and help shape how the shop itself runs.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Additional Requirements:

Benefits

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nHardware as ambitious as we are building is won or lost in iteration speed. To meet that requirement, we are standing up an in-house quick-turn prototyping shop at our 80,000 square foot Milpitas facility: CNC machining, a full sheet metal cell (waterjet + CNC press brake), and system assembly. As one of the first machinist/fabricators on the floor, you will take parts from CAD to finished metal the same week — sometimes the same day — and help shape how the shop itself runs.\n\n\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Program CAM (Fusion 360 / Mastercam) from engineering CAD models and own jobs end-to-end: setup, first article, and production of prototype parts\n\n - Design and build fixtures, soft jaws, and workholding to make repeat jobs fast\n\n - Set up and operate 3-axis CNC vertical mills, manual mill and lathe, and supporting shop equipment\n\n - Operate the sheet metal cell: waterjet cutting and CNC press brake forming, including nesting and bend programming\n\n - TIG weld brackets, enclosures, and fixtures as needed\n\n - Fabricate parts end-to-end: hardware insertion (PEM), deburring and surface finishing, and final fit-up of formed and welded assemblies\n\n - Manage the tool crib: track cutter and consumable inventory, buy tooling, and own vendor relationships for cutters, stock, and shop supplies\n\n - Inspect your own work using surface plate, height gauge, micrometers, and calipers to drawing GD&T\n\n - Support assembly and integration of prototype systems and racks when the schedule calls for it\n\n - Be flexible and help out around the shop: machine maintenance, material handling, rigging support, and keeping the floor safe and organized\n\n - Give design-for-manufacturability feedback directly to the engineers who sit a few steps away\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - Trade school, apprenticeship, or journeyman machinist certification\n\n - Experience with Fusion 360 or Mastercam and Haas controls\n\n - Sheet metal fabrication experience: CNC press brake setup/operation, waterjet or laser cutting\n\n - TIG and/or MIG welding proficiency on aluminum and steel\n\n - Background in prototype, R&D, or quick-turn job shop environments where every job is different\n\n - Experience owning tool crib inventory and tooling purchases\n\n - Basic CAD ability (Fusion 360, SolidWorks, or similar) for fixture design\n\n - Experience machining thermal/cooling components (coldplates, manifolds) or server/rack hardware\n\n - Comfort in a fast-moving startup environment with shifting priorities\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience owning tool crib inventory and tooling purchases\n\n - Basic CAD ability (Fusion 360, SolidWorks, or similar) for fixture design\n\n - Experience machining thermal/cooling components (coldplates, manifolds) or server/rack hardware\n\n - Comfort in a fast-moving startup environment with shifting priorities\n\n\n\nAdditional Requirements:\n\n - This position is based on-site in San Jose, CA and Milpitas, CA\n\n - Willingness to work extended hours and occasional weekends to support program-critical builds\n\n - Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. with assistance and stand for extended periods on a shop floor\n\n - Ability to obtain forklift certification\n \n \n \n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\n\nWe 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."},{"id":"7349bab7-ab3a-4943-8e78-645148304b0e","title":"Lab Technician (Contractor)","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"Contract","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-06T01:05:44.995+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/7349bab7-ab3a-4943-8e78-645148304b0e","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/7349bab7-ab3a-4943-8e78-645148304b0e/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

Job Summary
We're looking for a hands-on Lab Technician to support our hardware development and validation efforts. As a Lab Technician, you'll build, integrate, and debug prototype servers and racks — assembling boards into chassis, routing power and signal cabling, and getting systems to mechanical bring-up so engineers can start testing. In this role, you'll also own the execution of test procedures, maintain rigorous documentation standards, and keep our lab environments running smoothly across multiple concurrent projects. You'll work closely with lab operations team and hardware engineers to ensure data integrity and help us move fast without cutting corners.

Key Responsibilities

Must-Have Qualifications

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

Benefits
• Daily lunch and dinner in our office

How we’re different
Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.


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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\n\nJob Summary\nWe're looking for a hands-on Lab Technician to support our hardware development and validation efforts. As a Lab Technician, you'll build, integrate, and debug prototype servers and racks — assembling boards into chassis, routing power and signal cabling, and getting systems to mechanical bring-up so engineers can start testing. In this role, you'll also own the execution of test procedures, maintain rigorous documentation standards, and keep our lab environments running smoothly across multiple concurrent projects. You'll work closely with lab operations team and hardware engineers to ensure data integrity and help us move fast without cutting corners.\n\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Prepare mechanical set-ups, test benches, fixtures, and lab environments to support platform validation, inference kernal development, firmware engineering and more across multiple concurrent projects\n\n - Collect, record, and validate system health data, maintaining accurate and traceable documentation for analysis and quality assurance\n\n - Monitor equipment performance, identifying anomalies and troubleshooting issues to maintain system integrity and minimize downtime\n\n - Organize and maintain lab logs, test databases, and results reports, communicating findings clearly to hardware engineers and project teams\n\n - Enforce lab safety procedures and compliance standards while managing equipment maintenance, inventory, and calibration schedules\n\n\n\nMust-Have Qualifications\n\n - Experience preparing test benches and hardware fixtures across multiple concurrent projects\n\n - Strong data collection and documentation habits — accurate, traceable records are second nature to you\n\n - Comfort organizing and maintaining lab logs, databases, and test reports for a cross-functional engineering audience\n\n\n\nNice-to-Have Qualifications\n\n - Familiarity with lab safety compliance and managing equipment maintenance, inventory, and calibration schedules\n\n\n\nBenefits\n• Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n\nWe 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."},{"id":"b0b33251-e5b1-4fdf-b379-98f22ec3584b","title":"Production Finance","department":"Finance","team":"Finance","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-18T21:20:34.095+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/b0b33251-e5b1-4fdf-b379-98f22ec3584b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/b0b33251-e5b1-4fdf-b379-98f22ec3584b/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

 

Job Summary

As AI models become larger, more capable, and more widely deployed, the economics of compute increasingly determine what products can be built, how they are priced, and how quickly they can scale. We are looking for a Product Finance Lead to own the financial strategy behind our products from silicon economics through customer monetization. This role will connect product cost, manufacturing, supply, pricing, and margin into a single view of the business, helping Etched make the highest-leverage decisions across our product roadmap.

 

This is a high-ownership role for someone who genuinely loves to model and is energized by hard, ambiguous questions. You will work across Product, Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, GTM, and Finance to understand the economics of what we build, what it costs to produce, how we bring it to market, and where we should invest next. You will be expected to form a point of view, defend it with rigorous analysis, and drive decisions. A deep interest in AI infrastructure and an understanding of semiconductor and hardware economics will make you especially effective here.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

You may be a good fit if you have

 

Strong candidates may also have experience with

 

Benefits

 

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n \n\nJob Summary\n\nAs AI models become larger, more capable, and more widely deployed, the economics of compute increasingly determine what products can be built, how they are priced, and how quickly they can scale. We are looking for a Product Finance Lead to own the financial strategy behind our products from silicon economics through customer monetization. This role will connect product cost, manufacturing, supply, pricing, and margin into a single view of the business, helping Etched make the highest-leverage decisions across our product roadmap.\n\n \n\nThis is a high-ownership role for someone who genuinely loves to model and is energized by hard, ambiguous questions. You will work across Product, Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, GTM, and Finance to understand the economics of what we build, what it costs to produce, how we bring it to market, and where we should invest next. You will be expected to form a point of view, defend it with rigorous analysis, and drive decisions. A deep interest in AI infrastructure and an understanding of semiconductor and hardware economics will make you especially effective here.\n\n \n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Own product economics end to end. Build and maintain the financial models connecting semiconductor and system costs, manufacturing yields, supply commitments, customer demand, pricing, and gross margin.\n\n - Drive pricing and monetization strategy. Partner with Product and go-to-market teams to evaluate pricing, packaging, customer economics, and commercial structures across Etched's product portfolio.\n\n - Own the financial lens on the product roadmap. Build business cases for new products and major roadmap investments, including opportunity sizing, cost structure, expected margins, capital requirements, and returns.\n\n - Partner deeply with manufacturing and supply chain. Model wafer, packaging, component, inventory, supply, and purchase commitments across quarterly and multi-year forecasts, helping determine manufacturing volumes and timing.\n\n - Understand the drivers of product cost. Develop performance measures for major cost drivers, including yields, manufacturing volumes, supplier economics, new product ramps, and supply agreements, and identify opportunities to improve product margins.\n\n - Translate AI infrastructure economics into financial decisions. Develop a detailed understanding of how performance, power, system architecture, and total cost of ownership translate into customer value and Etched's pricing and margin opportunities.\n\n - Shape investment decisions. Evaluate competing product, manufacturing, and commercial investments and make clear recommendations about where Etched should deploy capital and resources.\n\n - Own inventory and supply economics. Analyze inventory levels, purchase commitments, supply availability, and demand scenarios to help Etched balance growth, customer commitments, and working capital.\n\n - Build the financial operating system for the product. Establish dashboards, forecasting processes, and metrics that give leadership a clear view of product costs, supply, pricing, margins, inventory, and performance.\n\n - Make our processes scale. Automate and redesign financial models, systems, and workflows as Etched moves from product development into increasingly complex manufacturing and commercial operations.\n\n - Drive executive decision-making. Turn complex product, manufacturing, and financial data into concise, opinionated recommendations for leadership.\n\n - Partner with Finance counterparts on forecasting, planning, monthly and quarterly close processes, and company-wide financial strategy.\n\n \n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Significant experience in finance, strategy, or another analytically rigorous role, with demonstrated ownership of complex financial or operational decisions.\n\n - Exceptional financial modeling skills. You can build sophisticated operating models from the ground up and genuinely enjoy doing it.\n\n - Experience with product cost, manufacturing, inventory, supply planning, or hardware unit economics.\n\n - Ability to take an ambiguous question, structure the analysis, develop a point of view, and independently drive it through to a decision.\n\n - Strong analytical skills and comfort working with large, messy datasets to identify the few insights that actually matter.\n\n - The judgment and conviction to make recommendations with imperfect information, paired with the willingness to update your view as new information emerges.\n\n - Strong cross-functional instincts and the ability to work effectively with technical, operational, commercial, and finance teams.\n\n - Excellent communication skills, particularly the ability to translate complicated financial and technical concepts into clear recommendations for executives and non-finance audiences.\n\n - Advanced Excel or Google Sheets proficiency.\n\n \n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - Experience in semiconductors, AI infrastructure, data center hardware, or another technically complex hardware business.\n\n - Deep familiarity with semiconductor manufacturing economics, including wafers, yields, packaging, components, inventory, purchase commitments, and product ramps.\n\n - Experience owning pricing, monetization, or product finance for a hardware or infrastructure product.\n\n - Experience evaluating customer total cost of ownership and translating technical performance advantages into pricing and commercial strategy.\n\n - Experience building or improving financial systems, dashboards, and automated reporting processes.\n\n - Familiarity with ERP, BI, data visualization, or financial planning tools.\n\n - Experience partnering directly with manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, or product organizations.\n\n - A deep interest in AI infrastructure and a perspective on where AI compute economics are heading.\n\n \n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.\n\n \n\nWe 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."},{"id":"35838e18-0e32-4a8c-8df3-1cbb8ae2f89c","title":"Communications","department":"GTM","team":"GTM","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Jose","secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-18T21:23:20.085+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Jose"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/35838e18-0e32-4a8c-8df3-1cbb8ae2f89c","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/35838e18-0e32-4a8c-8df3-1cbb8ae2f89c/application","descriptionHtml":"

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.

 

Job Summary

Etched is looking for a founding member of the Communications team to produce deeply researched technical writing about AI, inference, compute, and the infrastructure behind frontier models. You will work directly with our engineers and leadership to develop original points of view, explain complex technical ideas, and write pieces that technical audiences genuinely want to read. Your work will range from long-form technical analysis and product launches to customer stories, technical briefs, and writing for Etched leaders. This role will help define how engineers, customers, candidates, and the broader AI industry understand Etched and the technology we are building.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

You may be a good fit if you have

 

Strong candidates may also have experience with

 

Benefits

 

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n \n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is looking for a founding member of the Communications team to produce deeply researched technical writing about AI, inference, compute, and the infrastructure behind frontier models. You will work directly with our engineers and leadership to develop original points of view, explain complex technical ideas, and write pieces that technical audiences genuinely want to read. Your work will range from long-form technical analysis and product launches to customer stories, technical briefs, and writing for Etched leaders. This role will help define how engineers, customers, candidates, and the broader AI industry understand Etched and the technology we are building.\n\n \n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Research and write long-form technical pieces on AI models, inference, compute, chips, systems, and AI infrastructure.\n\n - Develop clear, original points of view on major technical developments and changes in the AI industry.\n\n - Analyze new model releases and other industry events to identify what matters for Etched and the broader inference ecosystem.\n\n - Own writing for major Etched product launches, technical announcements, and company milestones.\n\n - Ghostwrite technical and strategic pieces for Etched leadership.\n\n - Work directly with engineers to turn technical insights, data, and internal expertise into compelling written arguments.\n\n - Write customer case studies, technical briefs, and other materials that help customers understand Etched.\n\n - Create technical content for X and other channels where engineers, researchers, customers, and candidates spend time.\n\n - Develop charts, diagrams, benchmarks, and other visuals that strengthen technical arguments.\n\n - Identify important stories and ideas for Etched to write about without waiting for a fully developed brief.\n\n - Help establish a recognizable point of view and standard for technical writing across Etched.\n\n \n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Exceptional writing ability, particularly when explaining complex technical subjects.\n\n - Experience producing substantive long-form writing, technical analysis, research, or similarly rigorous written work.\n\n - Strong research skills and the ability to develop an original argument from technical information, data, and primary sources.\n\n - The technical aptitude to quickly understand topics across AI models, inference, accelerators, distributed systems, and AI infrastructure.\n\n - Ability to interview engineers and subject matter experts, ask precise questions, and identify the most important or surprising parts of a technical discussion.\n\n - Strong editorial judgment and a high bar for what is interesting, clear, and worth publishing.\n\n - Ability to write for different formats and audiences, from detailed technical analysis to concise posts for X.\n\n - Deep familiarity with the technical conversations happening across AI and the ability to recognize which developments actually matter.\n\n - Ability to independently take a piece from an initial idea through research, drafting, editing, and publication.\n\n - A portfolio of writing that demonstrates clear thinking, technical depth, and strong judgment.\n\n \n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with\n\n - A technical background in computer science, electrical engineering, machine learning, distributed systems, semiconductors, or a related field.\n\n - Writing about AI models, inference, GPUs, ASICs, datacenters, networking, or other areas of AI infrastructure.\n\n - Experience as an engineer, researcher, technical writer, journalist, analyst, or investor covering deeply technical subjects.\n\n - Developing data-driven arguments using benchmarks, charts, models, or other quantitative analysis.\n\n - Writing for technical founders, executives, or other subject matter experts.\n\n - Producing technical launch content or working closely with product and engineering teams around major releases.\n\n - Building an audience for technical ideas through X, blogs, newsletters, or other online communities.\n\n - Working in a fast-moving technical environment where the most important story can change quickly.\n\n \n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n \n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

Etched is seeking a detail-oriented and analytically minded Logistics Analyst to support and scale our global logistics operations from our Taipei hub. This role will focus on shipment tracking, data analysis, cost and lead-time visibility, and day-to-day operational support across international suppliers, contract manufacturers, and logistics partners.

This is an ideal role for an individual who wants hands-on exposure to global hardware logistics, cross-border shipping, and operational analytics in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.

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 and work across disciplines as needed.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is seeking a detail-oriented and analytically minded Logistics Analyst to support and scale our global logistics operations from our Taipei hub. This role will focus on shipment tracking, data analysis, cost and lead-time visibility, and day-to-day operational support across international suppliers, contract manufacturers, and logistics partners.\n\nThis is an ideal role for an individual who wants hands-on exposure to global hardware logistics, cross-border shipping, and operational analytics in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.\n\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Track and manage inbound and outbound shipments from end to end - from origin pickup through destination receiving - across global suppliers, contract manufacturers, warehouses, and end destinations.\n\n - Keep shipment, delivery, and inventory receipt records accurate in our ERP and internal platforms, including complete documentation for every shipment.\n\n - Monitor shipment status, lead times, and delivery performance. Flag risks and exceptions early, before they become delays.\n\n - Coordinate with freight forwarders, customs brokers, and warehouse partners to resolve delays and discrepancies.\n\n - Review international shipping documentation for accuracy — commercial invoices, packing lists, and Incoterms alignment.\n\n - Build and maintain recurring reporting on transit times, on-time delivery, logistics cost, and exceptions.\n\n - Support inventory control across our Taiwan office, 3PL warehouses, and contract manufacturers.\n\n - Document and improve logistics SOPs. Spot manual processes and data gaps, then propose fixes or automation.\n\n - Work closely with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, and Operations across time zones, especially with Asia-based suppliers and partners.\n \n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Economics, or a related field.\n\n - 2–5 years in logistics, freight forwarding, supply chain analytics, or import/export operations.\n\n - Hands-on experience coordinating international import and export shipments.\n\n - Working knowledge of Taiwan import/export regulations, customs clearance, and domestic shipping, plus international freight forwarding and shipping documentation.\n\n - Familiarity with air freight, ocean freight, and express courier, and a solid grasp of Incoterms and international trade practice.\n\n - Strong analytical skills and comfort working with operational data. Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets (lookups, pivots, basic modeling).\n\n - Sharp attention to detail, and the ability to track many shipments and data streams at once.\n\n - Clear written and verbal communication with suppliers, partners, and internal teams.\n\n - Professional proficiency in English and Mandarin, written and spoken.\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience in high-availability or mission-critical environments — compute, manufacturing, robotics, or aerospace — particularly supporting server, networking, or AI hardware deployments at scale.\n\n - Experience handling high-value, time-sensitive, or controlled shipments.\n\n - Familiarity with ERP, TMS, or shipment tracking systems.\n\n - Comfort operating in ambiguity and influencing without authority.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Competitive compensation packages, including generous equity packages\n\n - Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

We are hiring an Inventory Warehouse Coordinator to support inventory operations across Etched facilities and in-house engineering labs. This role is critical to ensuring engineers have the right parts, tools, and systems available when needed to keep development and builds on schedule.

This is a highly hands-on role centered on receiving, inventory control, material organization, and internal fulfillment. You will pick up incoming packages from the loading dock, inspect and receive materials into our internal systems, check items into inventory, maintain accurate inventory records, and fulfill requests from engineering teams. You will manage incoming and outgoing shipments, inventory organization and warehouse processes while maintaining high accuracy and safety standards.

It is ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on work, has strong attention to detail, and takes pride in maintaining accurate and organized inventory in a fast-paced hardware environment. This role runs on a swing shift (3pm–12am, Monday through Friday) and requires reliable transportation between Etched locations in San Jose (Santana Row) and Milpitas.

Key Responsibilities

Receiving & Material Handling

Inventory & Organization

Warehouse Operations Management

Internal Lab Support

You may be a good fit if you have

Compensation

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are hiring an Inventory Warehouse Coordinator to support inventory operations across Etched facilities and in-house engineering labs. This role is critical to ensuring engineers have the right parts, tools, and systems available when needed to keep development and builds on schedule.\n\n\n\nThis is a highly hands-on role centered on receiving, inventory control, material organization, and internal fulfillment. You will pick up incoming packages from the loading dock, inspect and receive materials into our internal systems, check items into inventory, maintain accurate inventory records, and fulfill requests from engineering teams. You will manage incoming and outgoing shipments, inventory organization and warehouse processes while maintaining high accuracy and safety standards.\n\n\n\nIt is ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on work, has strong attention to detail, and takes pride in maintaining accurate and organized inventory in a fast-paced hardware environment. This role runs on a swing shift (3pm–12am, Monday through Friday) and requires reliable transportation between Etched locations in San Jose (Santana Row) and Milpitas.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nReceiving & Material Handling\n\n - Pick up incoming packages and deliveries from the loading dock and transport them to the receiving area\n\n - Receive, inspect, and log incoming components, assemblies, tools, equipment, and supplies\n\n - Record detailed item information in internal systems and check materials into the inventory tracking system\n\n - Verify quantities, part information, and documentation against purchase orders and packing lists\n\n - Coordinate with Supply Chain, Logistic and Engineering teams on discrepancies or missing information\n\n - Label and route materials to the lab, storage locations, or build areas\n\n - Package items and prepare packages for outbound shipment\n\n - Operate 8000 lbs forklift (training will be provided)\n\nInventory & Organization\n\n - Maintain accurate inventory records in internal systems and spreadsheets\n\n - Maintain real-time visibility into material status via ERP (NetSuite) and inventory tracking tools\n\n - Organize and manage storage areas to ensure efficient retrieval and clear part identification\n\n - Conduct cycle counts and support inventory reconciliation efforts\n\nWarehouse Operations Management\n\n - Maintain clean, safe, and organized lab and warehouse spaces\n\n - Operate basic material-handling equipment, such as pallet jacks, carts and a forklift\n\n - Ensure compliance with safety and handling requirements for sensitive components, including ESD, fragile, and high-value parts\n\n - Identify opportunities to improve labeling, storage systems, and material flow efficiency\n\n - Transport and coordinated packages and material movement between Etched facilities\n\nInternal Lab Support\n\n - Serve as a point of contact for engineers requesting parts, tools, equipment, and supplies\n\n - Pick, stage, and distribute inventory for engineering builds, testing activities, and daily operational needs\n\n - Enable engineering production through efficient material movement\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - 2–5 years of experience in warehouse operations, shipping/receiving, or inventory control\n\n - Familiarity with ERP or inventory tracking systems, such as NetSuite or SAP\n\n - High attention to detail and ability to follow standard operating procedures precisely\n\n - Strong communication skills and ability to coordinate closely with Engineering and Operations teams\n\n - Comfort working in a hands-on, physical environment, including lifting and moving materials up to approximately 50 lbs\n\n - Basic proficiency with spreadsheets and inventory tracking systems\n\n - Prior lab or warehouse experience in a semiconductor or hardware environment\n\n - Familiarity with startup operations or fast-paced R&D cycles\n\n - Experience supporting inventory audits or compliance processes\n\n\n\nCompensation\n\n - This is a 1099 contract position, expected to be 40 - 50 hours per week. 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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.

Job Summary
As a Substrate IC Package Layout Design Engineer you will be responsible for the end-to-end design of complex IC substrate packages, supporting high-power consumption and high-speed signaling. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with large substrate designs (>50mm), complex power delivery networks, and high-speed signaling solutions (up to and beyond 50GHz). You will work closely with silicon, signal integrity, power integrity, and system help co-design world class substates with OSAT providers. Intense focus on optimization for power delivery through substrate, pushing what’s possible.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

Benefits

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\nAs a Substrate IC Package Layout Design Engineer you will be responsible for the end-to-end design of complex IC substrate packages, supporting high-power consumption and high-speed signaling. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with large substrate designs (>50mm), complex power delivery networks, and high-speed signaling solutions (up to and beyond 50GHz). You will work closely with silicon, signal integrity, power integrity, and system help co-design world class substates with OSAT providers. Intense focus on optimization for power delivery through substrate, pushing what’s possible.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - IC Substrate Layout Design\n\n - Lead the design and development of complex IC substrate layouts for high-power AI processors and accelerators.\n\n - Design large (>50mm) and complex multi-layer substrate packages with high pin counts and dense routing requirements.\n\n - Ensure robust power delivery designs capable of supporting >700W custom silicon solutions.\n\n - High-Speed Signal Routing & Integrity\n\n - Develop high-speed signal routing solutions capable of supporting >50GHz signaling while minimizing signal integrity issues such as loss and crosstalk.\n\n - Collaborate with SI/PI engineers to define signal integrity and power integrity requirements and implement solutions in substrate layout.\n\n - Advanced Packaging & CoWoS Integration\n\n - Optimize CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate) interposer designs for thermal and electrical performance.\n\n - Work closely with chip design, packaging, and manufacturing teams to ensure design feasibility and manufacturability.\n\n - Design Validation & Verification\n\n - Perform DRC (Design Rule Check) and LVS (Layout vs. Schematic) verification for all substrate designs.\n\n - Develop and maintain design documentation and guidelines for future substrate designs.\n\n - Support design reviews and provide technical guidance to junior team members.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\n\n - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.\n\n - 10+ years of experience in IC substrate layout design for high-performance processors or accelerators.\n\n - Extensive experience with large substrate packages (>50mm) and complex high-density layouts.\n\n - Proven experience with high-power (700W+) package designs and robust power delivery networks.\n\n - Expertise in high-speed signaling design (>50GHz) and mitigating signal integrity challenges (crosstalk, reflections, impedance mismatches).\n\n - Strong experience with CoWoS (Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate) interposer design and the impact of the substrate design to support CoWos. \n\n - Advanced proficiency in Allegro Package Designer (including constraint management, routing, and design verification).\n\n - Deep understanding of SI/PI principles and how they apply to package-level design.\n\n - Strong analytical skills and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional team environment.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

Etched is seeking an RMA and Repair Lead to build and run the end-to-end returns and repair operation for our AI hardware — from the moment a customer reports a failure through diagnosis, repair, and supplier recovery. You’ll be responsible for managing the repair capability whether it’s in-house or through outsourced partners. This role is deeply technical and hands-on: you'll own the repair, debug, and failure analysis requirements for our products, translate our manufacturing processes into repeatable repair processes, and feed what you learn back into design and production.

If you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving ambiguous problems, and want to shape the repair ecosystem at a rapidly scaling startup, this role is for you.

Key responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. 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.


","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nEtched is seeking an RMA and Repair Lead to build and run the end-to-end returns and repair operation for our AI hardware — from the moment a customer reports a failure through diagnosis, repair, and supplier recovery. You’ll be responsible for managing the repair capability whether it’s in-house or through outsourced partners. This role is deeply technical and hands-on: you'll own the repair, debug, and failure analysis requirements for our products, translate our manufacturing processes into repeatable repair processes, and feed what you learn back into design and production.\n\n\n\nIf you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving ambiguous problems, and want to shape the repair ecosystem at a rapidly scaling startup, this role is for you.\n\n\n\nKey responsibilities\n\n - Own the end-to-end RMA process — from customer return authorization through triage, repair or replacement, reverse logistics, and supplier recovery/warranty claims\n\n - Develop and manage RMA workflows, including return authorization, repair/replacement, and reverse logistics\n\n - Build and manage Etched's repair operations, whether in-house or outsourced, capacity planning, and day-to-day management of in-house depots and/or outsourced repair partners\n\n - Own the technical definition of repair: repair strategy by product and level (rack, server, module, component), debug flows, failure analysis requirements, test coverage, and repair-vs-scrap criteria\n\n - Translate production and manufacturing processes into repair processes — repair travelers, work instructions, tooling and fixtures, test stations, calibration, and operator training and certification\n\n - Build the data layer for repair: turnaround time, failure rates by part and failure mode, cost of service, and repeat-failure tracking — and close the loop with design, quality, and manufacturing to drive corrective actions and improve product reliability\n\n - Design and implement metrics and dashboards (turnaround time, failure rates, cost of service) to monitor and improve operations\n\n - Define SLAs and escalation paths, and act as the technical point of contact for escalated customer issues.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - 8+ years of experience in Repair operations, RMA, or hardware support operations, including ownership of end-to-end returns flow\n\n - Direct experience standing up a repair operation — either building an in-house depot or selecting and managing an outsourced repair partner [ especially from scratch in a fast-paced environment\n\n - Strong hands-on technical depth in hardware debug, board- and system-level troubleshooting, and failure analysis.\n\n - Experience converting NPI/manufacturing process documentation into repair processes, work instructions, and test flows\n\n - Strong understanding of failure analysis (FA), root cause, and corrective action processes\n\n - Excellent communication skills and ability to work closely with customers, suppliers, and internal teams\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - Experience supporting server, networking, or AI hardware deployments at rack scale\n\n - Familiarity with PLM/ERP systems for tracking returns, parts, repairs and warranty claims\n\n - Contract manufacturer or ODM relationship management, including repair statements of work and pricing\n\n - Data-driven service analytics — failure rate analysis, Pareto/FMEA, cost optimization, predictive maintenance\n\n - Global reverse logistics, customs, and cross-border repair flows\n\n - ISO standards, quality systems, and regulatory requirements for hardware returns and repairs\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Silicon Validation Firmware Engineer to develop the firmware and low-level software that validates our AI/ML accelerator ASICs across their entire Lifecycle, from pre-silicon emulation and FPGA prototyping through post-silicon bring-up, characterization, and production ramp. In this role you will build the validation firmware, test content, and automation that prove our silicon works, and you will be hands-on debugging real hardware in the lab. Your work directly enables functional correctness, performance, and reliability of our cutting-edge products.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

Benefits

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. 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.

","descriptionPlain":"About Etched\n\nEtched 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.\n\n\n\nJob Summary\n\nWe are seeking a skilled and motivated Silicon Validation Firmware Engineer to develop the firmware and low-level software that validates our AI/ML accelerator ASICs across their entire Lifecycle, from pre-silicon emulation and FPGA prototyping through post-silicon bring-up, characterization, and production ramp. In this role you will build the validation firmware, test content, and automation that prove our silicon works, and you will be hands-on debugging real hardware in the lab. Your work directly enables functional correctness, performance, and reliability of our cutting-edge products.\n\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n - Develop and own low-level validation firmware in C/C++ that runs across emulation and physical silicon, providing test content pre-silicon and reusing it to drive post-silicon bring-up.\n\n - Drive early bring-up of first silicon: boot, initialization, feature enablement, and debug of ASICs.\n\n - Perform deep-dive debug of silicon issues spanning firmware, RTL, electrical, protocol, and system levels; root-cause and resolve failures.\n\n - Build firmware infrastructure including hardware abstraction layers (HALs) and low-level device drivers for compute units, memory subsystems, and high-speed interfaces.\n\n - Develop and extend validation automation, result-capture, and regression frameworks (CI/CD) to run validation at scale.\n\n - Author firmware-driven test plans and define coverage metrics across IP blocks and subsystems; execute functional, performance, and stress/corner-case testing.\n\n - Validate and characterize custom IP blocks and accelerator components on both pre- and post-silicon platforms.\n\n - Use debug consoles and lab tooling (JTAG, UART, logic/protocol analyzers) for silicon debug and characterization.\n\n - Collaborate closely with design, verification, architecture, DFT, and driver teams to ensure a smooth transition from pre-silicon verification to post-silicon validation, and to feed silicon issues back into revisions and firmware/driver workarounds.\n\n\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)\n\n - Proficiency in C/C++ for firmware and bare-metal development, plus Python for validation automation and scripting.\n\n - Understanding of SoC/computer architecture (CPU cores, memory subsystems, caches, interconnects).\n\n - Solid low-level/embedded fundamentals: bootloaders, hardware abstraction layers, device drivers, register/interrupt programming, and bare-metal or RTOS environments.\n\n - Knowledge and familiarity developing and debugging in Linux environments.\n\n - Strong problem-solving, analytical, and cross-functional collaboration skills across hardware and software teams.\n\n - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (Master's a plus).\n\n\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\n\n - 2+ years of experience developing firmware / embedded software for ASICs or SoCs\n\n - Hands-on experience with silicon bring-up and low-level debug (boot, initialization, root-causing failures across firmware/electrical/protocol layers).\n\n - Experience with JTAG and debuggers (e.g., Lauterbach/GDB) and serial/UART debug consoles.\n\n - Experience across both pre-silicon (emulation, FPGA, RTL simulation) and post-silicon (lab bring-up, characterization) environments.\n\n - Experience with one or more high-speed interfaces: PCIe, DDR/LPDDR/HBM, SerDes, or die-to-die / chiplet interconnect.\n\n - Experience building test/validation automation and regression frameworks (CI/CD).\n\n - RTOS experience (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, NuttX) or RISC-V firmware development.\n\n - Familiarity with platform/system firmware (UEFI, ACPI, BMC, BIOS).\n\n - Ability to read RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog) and debug in simulation.\n\n - Hands-on lab instrumentation experience (oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers, BERTs) and signal-integrity awareness.\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n \n - $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\n - Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\n - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\n - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\n - Daily lunch and dinner in our office\n\n - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\n\n\nHow we’re different\n\nEtched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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