Forward Deployment Engineer
Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.
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About Etched
Etched co-designs chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems for efficient inference of frontier AI models, targeting throughput, latency, cost, and power efficiency across prefill and decode workloads.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead deployments of accelerator-based systems in large-scale datacenters, including installation, bring-up, validation, and customer acceptance. You will diagnose hardware, firmware, Linux, driver, and networking issues; investigate field failures; build deployment tooling and diagnostics; coordinate updates; and work with engineering functions to deliver corrective actions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or a closely related field
- 3 years of experience in the job offered or related occupations
- 3 years of experience with schematic review, PCB layout validation, and high-speed digital interface debugging
- 3 years of experience with Linux-based system bring-up, validation, debugging, and technical documentation
- 3 years of C/C++ and Python programming experience for hardware validation and debugging
- 3 years of experience with power architecture design, troubleshooting, and power distribution networks
- 1.25 years of experience with system bring-up, validation, and debug of datacenter-class or HPC server platforms
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end deployment of accelerator-based systems in datacenter environments
- Diagnose and resolve system-level hardware, firmware, Linux, driver, and networking issues
- Perform root-cause analysis of field failures and drive corrective actions
- Develop deployment tooling, diagnostics, telemetry, dashboards, and runbooks
- Coordinate firmware updates, configuration changes, and hotfix rollouts with minimal downtime
- Collaborate with hardware, software, deployment, RMA, and sustaining engineering functions
- Travel up to 30% domestically and internationally