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Internal Acceleration, Special Projects

Etched · San Jose

Infrastructureonsitemid-level$150k–$400k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build agentic harnesses embedded with kernel, ASIC, and hardware teams
  • Own internal tools end-to-end that measurably accelerate chip development
  • Take on business-critical special projects directly with founders

What they offer

  • Medical, dental, and vision with generous premium coverage
  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
  • $2,500 per month housing subsidy for living within walking distance of the 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

A high-agency builder with product sense who thrives in ambiguity and wants to own critical problems end-to-end alongside founders to make hardware development radically faster.

Requirements

  • 1-5+ years building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup
  • Strong full-stack skills with focus on shipping working products
  • Built LLM agents or AI tooling used by real users, including evals and failure analysis
  • Use agentic coding tools and frontier models to ramp fast on unfamiliar domains
  • Product sense, design taste, and extreme attention to detail
  • Extreme agency to find and own the real problem end to end
remote policy
onsite only

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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