Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (ASIC)
Etched · San Jose
Infrastructureonsite$150k–$400k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agents that accelerate production of frontier tokens end to end.
- Embed with ASIC team to transform how hardware is built AI-natively.
- Build sandboxed execution environments where agents verify their own work.
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 of the office
- Relocation support for those moving 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
High-agency product-minded engineer who thrives in ambiguity and owns problems end to end, excited to embed with hardware teams and use agents to transform how chips are built.
Requirements
- At least 1-5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup
- Built agents for complex, multi-step tasks beyond calling an API, including tool design, evals, and failure analysis
- Strong software engineer who has built reliable systems others depend on
- Use coding agents heavily and change the system when an agent is confidently wrong
- High agency in unfamiliar domains
- Product sense, design taste, and extreme attention to detail
- 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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