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 accelerator-system deployments in large-scale datacenters, including installation, bring-up, validation, and customer acceptance. You will diagnose hardware and software issues, perform root-cause analysis, develop deployment tooling and runbooks, and coordinate updates and hotfixes while minimizing downtime. This role requires domestic and international travel.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in a closely related technical field
- 3 years of related experience
- Proficiency in schematic review, PCB layout validation, and high-speed digital interface debugging
- Experience with Linux system bring-up, validation, debugging, validation reports, and technical documentation
- C/C++ and Python programming experience for hardware validation and debugging
- Knowledge of power architecture design, troubleshooting, and power distribution networks
- 1.25 years of experience with datacenter-class and HPC server platform bring-up, validation, and debugging
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end deployment of accelerator-based systems in large-scale datacenters
- Install, bring up, validate, and obtain customer acceptance for systems
- 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 teams
- Travel domestically and internationally up to 30%