Core Engineering Intern
Etched · San Jose
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own a real 0-to-1 project scoped to land in production.
- Build internal tools and systems for hardware and manufacturing.
- Prototype and deploy agentic systems for toughest R&D challenges.
What they offer
- 12-week paid internship (June - August 2026)
- Generous housing support for those relocating
- Daily lunch and dinner in office
- Direct mentorship from industry leaders
Ideal candidate
High-agency builder who thrives on ambiguity and moves fast to ship 0-to-1 products. A future-founder type with strong product sense, excited by intense, impactful work on critical problems.
Requirements
- Track record solving hard problems across stacks and domains
- Ability to walk through something you built in depth
- Comfortable with Python and TypeScript and directing AI to write it well
- Product sense with AI tooling proficiency and design taste
- Bias towards action and comfort with incomplete information
- High agency and comfort with ambiguity
- 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
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