Node Systems Lead
Etched · San Jose
CHECKED 8H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Lead software powering gigawatt-scale inference clusters for frontier models.
- Own node-level systems from host config to rack component interfaces.
- Drive rack simulation and diagnostics for next-gen AI supercomputing.
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 near office
- Relocation support to San Jose
- Wellness benefits for fitness and mental health
- Daily lunch and dinner in office
Ideal candidate
A hands-on systems leader who thrives taking new hardware from bring-up to production and cares deeply about squeezing performance and reliability from real machines in close partnership with hardware teams.
Requirements
- Strong experience developing and debugging production systems software in C, C++ or Rust on Linux
- Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers while staying hands-on
- Deep understanding of operating systems fundamentals, including scheduling, concurrency, memory management and I/O
- Demonstrated ability to investigate performance problems on real hardware and validate improvements through profiling and measurement
- Experience taking system software or performance improvements from prototype through production deployment
- Understanding of hardware/software interactions and ability to debug across application, kernel and device boundaries
- Ability to work closely with hardware and software teams and translate workload requirements into concrete system changes
- 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