Core Engineering Intern
Etched · San Jose
CHECKED 6H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Ship 0-to-1 production code weekly on Etched's special projects team.
- Prototype agentic systems for Etched's toughest R&D challenges.
- Build hardware for frontier intelligence across chips and racks.
What they offer
- 12-week paid internship (June-August 2026)
- Generous housing support for relocating interns
- Daily lunch and dinner in office
- Direct mentorship from industry leaders
Ideal candidate
High-agency builder who thrives on ambiguity and ships 0-to-1 fast. Energized by owning business-critical problems end-to-end, not a 9-5 mindset.
Requirements
- Track record solving hard problems across stacks and domains
- Able to walk through something you built in depth
- Comfortable with Python and TypeScript, debugging and directing AI to write it well
- Product sense with AI tooling proficiency and design taste
- Bias to action and comfort with incomplete information
- High agency and comfort with ambiguity
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