Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Hardware)
Etched · San Jose
Infrastructureonsite$150k–$400k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agents to accelerate frontier token production with founders.
- Embed with hardware team to build agentic harnesses and operating systems.
- Build 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
- $2,500 per month housing subsidy for living within walking distance
- Relocation support for 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 builder with startup experience who thrives in ambiguity and owns problems end to end. Excited by intense, mission-driven work using agents to transform hardware development.
Requirements
- 1-5+ years building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup
- Built agents for complex, multi-step tasks: tool design, long-context management, evals, failure analysis
- Strong software engineering background building reliable systems others depend on
- Heavy user of coding agents who reviews transcripts and fixes systems
- High agency in unfamiliar domains with ability to find and drive the real problem
- 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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