Infrastructure Engineer - Labs
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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About the Role
You will own racks and server infrastructure across labs and data center sites, taking systems from handoff through bring-up, validation and testing. You will build bare-metal provisioning, troubleshoot Linux hosts on early-stage hardware, bring racks onto the network, diagnose physical-layer faults, support Slurm lab compute, extend observability, and write Ansible and Python automation.
Requirements
- 4+ years of hands-on infrastructure, data center systems, or bare-metal operations experience in on-prem environments
- Comfortable across servers, power circuits and PDUs, Linux, networking, and hardware
- Strong Linux systems skills on bare metal including kernel and driver debugging, PCIe and NIC troubleshooting
- Experience provisioning bare-metal fleets with PXE/iPXE, DHCP, DNS, and BMCs (Redfish or IPMI)
- Ansible (YAML, Jinja2) and Python automation, Git workflows
- Networking knowledge: L2/L3, VLANs, LACP, switch configuration, optics and copper cabling at 100G and above
- Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, or VictoriaMetrics
- Incident response and fleet-wide software and firmware updates experience
- Physically hands-on in an active lab
- Able to work on-site in San Jose and travel to Bay Area lab and data center sites
Responsibilities
- Own management and support of racks and server infrastructure across labs and data center sites
- Deliver full-stack infrastructure for new sites including compute, networking, storage, and core services (DHCP, DNS, ZTP, NFS)
- Build and maintain bare-metal provisioning using PXE/iPXE, DHCP, BMC/Redfish imaging, and golden images
- Troubleshoot Linux hosts on custom and early-stage hardware to root cause
- Bring racks onto the network including top-of-rack and uplink configuration, VLAN and IP planning, optics and cabling
- Diagnose physical-layer and hardware faults and coordinate repairs and RMAs
- Help manage the Slurm cluster for shared lab compute and expand storage and compute
- Extend observability stack (Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana) to every lab rack
- Write infrastructure automation in Ansible and Python through reviewed, tested pull requests
- Manage software releases under change control, respond to incidents, and maintain runbooks and inventory
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Housing subsidy of $2.5k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose
- Wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- Daily lunch and dinner in the office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification