Infrastructure Software Engineer
Etched · San Jose
CHECKED 6H AGO
Infrastructureonsite$150k–$250k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build infrastructure powering model-specific ASICs from simulation to silicon.
- Scale hybrid compute enabling massively parallel CI and hardware-aware execution.
- Push boundaries of AI performance delivering best-in-class throughput and latency.
What they offer
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- $2,500 per month housing subsidy for those living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
- Wellness benefits covering fitness and mental health
- Daily lunch + dinner in office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Ideal candidate
Systems-minded builder who obsesses over reliability and elegance and loves empowering hardware and software engineers to iterate faster on frontier AI infrastructure.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering mindset with quality instincts and deep systems understanding
- Familiarity with Bazel build system
- Deep understanding of ASIC development flows involving Synopsys, Cadence, and Verilator
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure including hybrid on-prem/cloud deployments
- Experience monitoring, provisioning, and debugging bare-metal servers and rack-scale systems
- Comfortable profiling and optimizing compute for latency, memory, and I/O throughput
- Proficiency building or operating telemetry systems at scale
- 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