Infrastructure Software Engineer
Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.
Funding history
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop infrastructure tooling for ASIC, software, and platform engineering workflows. You will build orchestration layers for hybrid HPC clusters, create reproducible infrastructure control planes, and implement telemetry, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and synthetic testing. You will also optimize workload placement across on-premise and cloud environments.
Requirements
- Programming skills in Python, Go, Rust, or C++
- Expert knowledge of Linux, virtualization, containerization, and CI/CD
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as OpenTofu, Ansible, or Puppet
- Knowledge of PromQL and observability-stack architecture
- Experience debugging hardware-software integration problems
- Ability to lead and mentor technical teams
- 8+ years of infrastructure engineering, systems programming, or backend software development experience
- Experience with HPC, cloud, or hybrid infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Design and build orchestration layers for hybrid HPC clusters
- Develop and maintain a programmable infrastructure control plane
- Create tools that abstract massive parallelism
- Prototype workload orchestration and migration between on-premise and cloud environments
- Implement real-time telemetry and tracing systems
- Build observability dashboards, alerting, automated responses, and synthetic testing
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- $2,500 per month housing subsidy for eligible employees living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support for moves to San Jose
- Wellness benefits
- Daily office lunch and dinner
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification