Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (ASIC)
Etched · San Jose
Infrastructureonsite$150k–$400k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agents that accelerate production of frontier tokens for hardware.
- Own bottlenecks end-to-end embedded with ASIC team, from idea to daily tool.
- Build sandboxed execution environments where agents verify work on real hardware.
What they offer
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Housing subsidy of $2,500 per month for those living within walking distance
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose
- 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 builder who thrives in ambiguity and owns problems end-to-end. Excited by intense, founder-adjacent work transforming how hardware is built.
Requirements
- At least 1-5+ years building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup
- Built agents for complex, multi-step tasks people depend on, including tool design and evals
- Strong software engineer who built reliable systems others depend on
- Use coding agents heavily and improve the system when an agent is confidently wrong
- High agency in unfamiliar domains, finds the real problem and drives it forward
- 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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