Internal Acceleration, Engineer (ASIC)
Etched · San Jose
Infrastructureonsite$150k–$400k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agentic harnesses that transform how hardware is built AI-natively.
- Embed with ASIC team to own bottlenecks from idea to daily-used tools.
- Ship full-stack internal products that define how Etched builds chips.
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 to San Jose (Santana Row)
- 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
Full-stack builder with startup hustle who thrives on ambiguity and owns problems end-to-end. Excited by AI-native tooling, product sense, and moving fast alongside founders to accelerate hardware development.
Requirements
- 1-5+ years building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup
- Strong full-stack skills focused on shipping working products
- Built LLM agents or AI tooling used by real users, including evals and failure analysis
- Uses agentic coding tools and frontier models to ramp fast on new domains
- Product sense, design taste, and extreme attention to detail
- Extreme agency to find and solve the real problem end to end
- 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
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