Applied AI Engineer, Silicon Engineering
Etched · San Jose
CHECKED 6H AGO
Infrastructureonsite$150k–$275k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build LLM agents that multiply chip team output on verification and debug.
- Wire agents into simulators, regressions, waveforms, and lab bring-up.
- Own evals that turn AI demos into tools engineers rely on daily.
What they offer
- Full medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- Housing subsidy of $2,500/month for those living within walking distance
- Daily lunch and dinner in office
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Ideal candidate
High-agency builder who loves unfamiliar hard problems and ships agentic AI tools people actually use. You ramp fast with AI, measure what works, and want to multiply a chip team's speed.
Requirements
- Track record solving hard problems across stacks and domains
- Comfort with Python: read, modify, debug code and direct AI to write it well
- Fluency using AI tools and frontier models to learn and ramp fast
- Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-based agents or AI tooling
- Eval-driven mindset to measure whether AI systems actually work
- High agency and comfort with ambiguity
- Interest in chip development and ability to ramp quickly on technical domain
- remote policy
- Fully in-person
Lab profile
About Etched
Building specialized AI chips and systems for frontier inference with best-in-class throughput and latency.
What they build
- Sohu AI inference chip
- AI racks and hardware systems
- Inference software stack
Known for
- Full-stack co-design of chips, racks, software and manufacturing
- Best-in-class throughput and latency for prefill and decode
- Inference-optimized architecture
Key facts
- Backed by hundreds of millions from top-tier investors