Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Production)
Etched · San Jose
Infrastructureonsitemid-level$150k–$400k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agents that accelerate production of frontier tokens with founders.
- Create execution environments where agents verify work on real hardware.
- Ship full-stack internal products defining how Etched builds hardware.
What they offer
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- Housing subsidy of $2,500 per month within walking distance of office
- Relocation support for moves to San Jose (Santana Row)
- Daily lunch and dinner in office
- Significant equity
Ideal candidate
High-agency builder with 1-5+ years shipping end-to-end who thrives in ambiguity and intensity. You have product sense, design taste, and love owning critical problems alongside founders.
Requirements
- 1-5+ years building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup
- Built agents for complex, multi-step tasks including tool design, long-context management and evals
- Strong software engineer with experience in reliable systems others depend on
- Uses coding agents heavily and improves the system when agents fail
- 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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