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Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Production)

Etched · San Jose

Infrastructureonsite$150k–$400k
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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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