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Internal Acceleration, Hardware

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 kernel, ASIC and production teams to remove top bottlenecks.
  • Own special projects directly with founders to hit critical milestones.

What they offer

  • Medical, dental, and vision with generous premium coverage
  • $500/month credit for waiving medical benefits
  • $2,500/month housing subsidy near office
  • Relocation support to San Jose
  • Daily lunch and dinner in office
  • Significant equity

Ideal candidate

A high-agency builder with product sense who thrives in ambiguity and wants to own problems end-to-end. Excited by fast-paced, in-person startup life and using AI to make hardware teams move faster.

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 failure analysis
  • Use agentic coding tools and frontier models to ramp fast in new domains
  • Product sense, design taste, and extreme attention to detail
  • Extreme agency to find the real problem and own it end to end
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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