IA Research Engineer Intern
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Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.
San Jose, United States
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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 embed with the kernels team to identify high-leverage bottlenecks and turn them into useful tools. You will build and deploy LLM agents using tool calling and MCP, create execution environments for agent verification, ship internal products, design evaluations, measure adoption, and support founder-led special projects.
Requirements
- Progress toward a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a record of shipping projects used by others
- Experience building agents for multi-step tasks, including tool design, context management, evaluations, and failure analysis
- Heavy use of coding agents, including reviewing transcripts and correcting confidently wrong agents
- Product sense and attention to detail
Responsibilities
- Identify high-leverage bottlenecks and turn them into tools engineers use
- Build and deploy LLM agents integrated with engineering workflows through tool calling and MCP
- Build execution environments for agents to verify their work
- Ship internal products, including interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure
- Design evaluations and track tool adoption
- Support special projects with the founders
Benefits
- 12-week paid internship
- Housing support for relocating employees
- Daily lunch and dinner in the office
- Direct mentorship from industry leaders and engineers