Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Production)
Etched · San Jose
Infrastructureonsite$150k–$400k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agentic harnesses to accelerate production of frontier AI tokens.
- Embed with production team to ship tools engineers rely on daily.
- Create sandboxed execution environments to let agents verify hardware 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 living within walking distance of office
- 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 product sense and design taste who thrives in ambiguity and owns problems end-to-end. Excited by intense, business-critical work alongside founders to transform how hardware is built.
Requirements
- 1-5+ years building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup
- Built agents for complex, multi-step tasks with tool design, context management, evals and failure analysis
- Strong software engineering background building reliable systems like distributed systems or developer tooling
- Uses coding agents heavily and improves systems when agents are confidently wrong
- High agency in unfamiliar domains with ability to find real problem and drive 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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