Embedded Software Engineer
Etched · San Jose
CHECKED 6H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own accelerator software that takes custom inference chips from power-on to usable.
- Co-design chips, racks, and software to deliver best-in-class AI throughput.
- Bring new silicon to life, from boot and initialization to inference execution.
What they offer
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- Monthly credit for waiving medical benefits
- Monthly housing subsidy for those living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose
- Wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- Daily lunch and dinner in the office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Ideal candidate
A deep firmware engineer who loves bringing new silicon to life and thrives on ambiguous, first-ever bring-up problems. You enjoy collaborating across hardware and software boundaries to make chips usable.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- Strong software development fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms
- Experience shipping and testing software on products that have gone to production
- Depth in firmware design, implementation, and debugging
- Familiarity with embedded architectures and silicon-to-host IO technologies
- Familiarity with systems concepts like scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency
- remote policy
- Fully in-person, no remote
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