Performance Tools Intern
Etched · San Jose
CHECKED 6H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build profiling infrastructure for novel ML accelerator from the ground up.
- Design timeline views correlating CPU, PCIe, and accelerator execution.
- Detect memory inefficiencies and PCIe saturation on custom hardware.
Ideal candidate
Low-level systems thinker fascinated by how complex hardware behaves under real workloads and motivated to build tools that help others unlock peak performance.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in C++ or Rust
- Solid understanding of computer architecture, memory hierarchies and parallel programming
- Experience or interest in low-level performance analysis, profiling and optimization
- Experience or interest in operating systems, compilers, firmware, drivers or low-level systems software
- Familiarity with performance analysis tools such as Nsight, VTune, Xprof or Perfetto is a plus
- Strong problem-solving skills and curiosity to learn quickly
- 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