Internal Acceleration Engineer ASIC

Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.

Series CRecently funded0 current maintainers0 active leads
San Jose, United States
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 identify high-leverage engineering bottlenecks and own solutions from idea through deployment. You will build LLM agents with tool-calling and MCP, ship internal full-stack products and supporting data infrastructure, design evaluations, track adoption, and take on time-sensitive projects.

Requirements

  • 1–5+ years of end-to-end software development and delivery experience
  • Full-stack development skills
  • Experience building LLM agents or AI tooling for users
  • Context engineering, tool integration, evaluation, and failure analysis experience
  • Experience using agentic coding tools and frontier models
  • Product sense and design taste
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to identify and solve underlying problems

Responsibilities

  • Identify high-leverage ASIC engineering bottlenecks and deliver tools engineers use
  • Build and deploy LLM agents for engineering workflows using tool-calling and MCP
  • Ship full-stack internal products, interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure
  • Design evaluations and track adoption
  • Take on special projects and surface critical problems

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • USD 500 monthly credit for waiving medical benefits
  • USD 2,500 monthly housing subsidy for eligible employees living within walking distance of the office
  • Relocation support to San Jose
  • Wellness benefits
  • Daily office lunch and dinner
  • Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification