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Node Systems Lead

Etched · San Jose

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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
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