Firmware Intern
Etched · San Jose
CHECKED 8H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Help develop firmware for chips designed to run large AI models efficiently.
- Bring up new silicon and validate features with hardware and architecture teams.
- Enable high-throughput inference by optimizing hardware for peak performance.
What they offer
- 12-week paid internship
- Generous housing support for those relocating
- Daily lunch and dinner in office
- Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers
Ideal candidate
Engineering student passionate about low-level systems and hardware-software co-design. Collaborative and curious builder eager to bring new AI silicon to life at peak performance.
Requirements
- Pursuing Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Proficiency in C/C++ or Rust
- Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
- Strong understanding of low-level software engineering
- Strong understanding of hardware/software co-design
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- 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