IA Research Engineer (Kernels) Intern
Etched · San Jose
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build LLM agents that accelerate how Etched produces frontier tokens.
- Create sandboxed environments where agents verify work on real hardware.
- Ship internal tools end to end, from interfaces to data pipelines.
What they offer
- 12-week paid internship
- Housing support for those relocating
- Daily lunch and dinner in office
- Direct mentorship from industry leaders
Ideal candidate
High-agency builder with strong product sense who thrives in ambiguity and loves shipping tools others rely on. Heavy coding-agent user obsessed with detail and owning problems end to end.
Requirements
- Progress towards Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or related field
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with record of shipping projects others use
- Built agents for multi-step tasks including tool design, context management and evals
- Heavy use of coding agents, including reading transcripts and improving systems
- High agency in unfamiliar domains with product sense and attention to detail
- 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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