Internal Acceleration Research Engineer Hardware
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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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 hardware team to identify high-leverage bottlenecks and own solutions from concept through daily use. You will build LLM agents and execution environments where agents verify work using sandboxed simulators, EDA flows, compilers, profilers, and hardware. You will also ship full-stack products, design evaluations, and track adoption.
Requirements
- 1–5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup.
- Experience building agents for complex, multi-step tasks.
- Tool design, long-context management, evaluation, and failure-analysis experience.
- Experience building reliable systems, such as distributed systems, experiment infrastructure, or developer tooling.
- Experience using coding agents and evaluating their transcripts.
- 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.
- Build execution environments where agents verify work using sandboxed simulators, EDA flows, compilers, profilers, and real hardware.
- 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.