Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Kernels)
Etched · San Jose
InfrastructureonsiteMid-level$150k–$400k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agentic harnesses to accelerate production of frontier tokens.
- Embed with kernels team to find and own highest-leverage bottlenecks.
- Take on special projects directly with founders on critical milestones.
What they offer
- Medical, dental, and vision with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- $2,500 per month housing subsidy within walking distance of office
- Relocation support to San Jose (Santana Row)
- Wellness benefits for fitness and mental health
- Daily lunch and dinner in office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
- Significant equity
Ideal candidate
A high-agency builder with startup experience and product sense who thrives in ambiguity. Excited to work in-person at pace with founders to accelerate how hardware gets 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 evals and tool integration
- 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
- 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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