Applied Engineer, Hardware
Etched · San Jose
CHECKED 6H AGO
Infrastructureonsite$150k–$250k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agents that take electrical and mechanical designs to manufacturable outputs.
- Turn simulation results and physical test data into systems that improve every cycle.
- Ship AI-designed hardware for frontier inference with chips and racks in-house.
What they offer
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Housing subsidy of $2,500 per month for those living within walking distance
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose
- Daily lunch and dinner in office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
- Significant equity
Ideal candidate
High-agency builder who loves unfamiliar hard problems and owning AI systems end to end, motivated by pushing how much of hardware design AI can own.
Requirements
- Track record of solving hard problems across stacks and domains in unfamiliar territory
- Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-based agents or AI tooling that people depend on
- Strong software engineering skills, especially in Python, building reliable integrations with complex tools
- 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