Supercomputing Engineer
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Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.
San Jose, United States
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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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will architect low-level control-plane software for cluster-scale AI systems. You will build hardware-facing services, develop telemetry and tracing infrastructure, implement orchestration primitives for devices and racks, profile system performance, and collaborate on system interfaces across hardware, firmware, kernel, and runtime layers.
Requirements
- C
- C++
- Rust
- Linux internals
- Kernel and user-space debugging
- Low-level systems programming
- Drivers
- DMA
- Interrupts
- Memory management
- Device control
- Logging
- Tracing
- Observability
- Communication
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement control-plane software for system bring-up, configuration, and management
- Build system services that interact with hardware, firmware, and operating systems
- Develop telemetry, logging, and tracing infrastructure
- Implement orchestration primitives for devices, nodes, and racks
- Profile and tune PCIe, memory, networking, kernel, and runtime performance
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, kernel, and runtime teams on system interfaces and behavior
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with generous premium coverage
- $500 monthly credit for waiving medical benefits
- $2,500 monthly 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 office lunch and dinner
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification