Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Hardware)
Etched · San Jose
Infrastructureonsitemid-level$150k–$400k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agents that accelerate production of frontier tokens.
- Embed with hardware team to solve highest-leverage bottlenecks end to end.
- Take on special projects directly with founders to hit critical milestones.
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
End-to-end builder with startup experience and strong product sense who thrives on ambiguity. High-agency future founder excited to use AI to move fast and accelerate hardware development beyond 9-5.
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 what works
- Built LLM agents or AI tooling used by real users, including context engineering, tool integration, evals, and failure analysis
- 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
- 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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