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Internal Acceleration, ASIC

Etched · San Jose

Infrastructureonsite$150k–$400k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build agents that accelerate production of frontier tokens across hardware teams.
  • Embed with kernels, ASIC and production teams to remove bottlenecks.
  • Own internal products from idea to daily-used tools with founders.

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
  • Relocation support for those moving to San Jose
  • Wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
  • Daily lunch and dinner in office
  • Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
  • Significant equity

Ideal candidate

Fast-moving builder with strong product sense and extreme agency who thrives in ambiguity and owns problems end-to-end. Excited by intense, founder-adjacent work transforming how hardware is built.

Requirements

  • 1-5+ years building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup
  • Strong full-stack skills with focus on shipping working products
  • Built LLM agents or AI tooling used by real users, including context engineering and evals
  • Uses agentic coding tools and frontier models to ramp fast on unfamiliar domains
  • Product sense, design taste, and extreme attention to detail
  • Extreme agency finding the real problem, not just the stated one
remote policy
On-site only

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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