Internal Acceleration Engineer Hardware

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 embed with the hardware team to identify high-leverage bottlenecks and own solutions from concept through daily use. You will build and deploy LLM agents, full-stack internal products, data pipelines, and infrastructure. You will design evaluations, track adoption, and take on time-sensitive projects that accelerate engineering work.

Requirements

  • 1–5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup.
  • Full-stack development skills.
  • Experience building LLM agents or AI tooling used by real users.
  • Context engineering, tool integration, evaluation, and failure-analysis experience.
  • Experience using agentic coding tools and frontier models.
  • Product sense, design taste, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with the hardware team to identify high-leverage bottlenecks and own solutions from idea to daily-use tools.
  • Build and deploy LLM agents in engineering workflows using tool calling and MCP.
  • Ship full-stack internal products, including interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
  • Design evaluations and track adoption to assess tool effectiveness.
  • Take on special projects and resolve problems needed to meet critical milestones.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with generous premium coverage.
  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits.
  • $2,500 per month housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office.
  • Relocation support for moves to San Jose.
  • Wellness benefits covering fitness and mental health.
  • Daily lunch and dinner in the office.
  • Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification.
  • Equity.