Thermal Engineer, Rack Level
Etched · San Jose
Infrastructureonsitesenior$200k–$250k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own thermal design and validation for L11 liquid-cooled inference racks.
- Define fill and commissioning from first fill to customer bring-up.
- Validate reference CDUs and drive facility cooling integration.
What they offer
- Medical, dental, and vision with generous premium coverage
- Significant equity
- Housing subsidy for those living near office
- Relocation support for moving to San Jose
- Daily lunch and dinner in office
- Wellness benefits for fitness and mental health
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Ideal candidate
Hands-on thermal engineer with years commissioning liquid cooling in live datacenters who thrives closing the gap between spec and white space and owning rack deployment end-to-end.
Requirements
- 5-10 years in thermal or mechanical engineering with hands-on CDU and datacenter liquid cooling experience
- Experience installing, commissioning, or validating liquid cooling systems at datacenter scale
- Experience with CDU validation and commissioning including flow, pressure, temperature, and controls testing
- Strong working knowledge of datacenter cooling loops and facility control systems
- Comfort working directly with customers, facility teams, and suppliers to resolve integration issues
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering, or related field
- remote policy
- Fully in-person, no remote
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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