Jobs at Etched

Etched is seeking a Manufacturing Design Program Manager to manage technical manufacturing readiness for AI systems. This role involves driving manufacturing execution from DFM reviews through mass production, collaborating with design, test, SMT, FATP, supply chain, and operations teams.

Design Verification Engineer at Etched, focusing on internal IP. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining UVM/SystemVerilog testbenches for high-performance IPs like systolic arrays, DMA engines, and NoCs, defining and executing verification plans, and debugging complex issues.

Finance Intern at Etched, a hardware company focused on frontier intelligence and inference chips. This role involves tackling strategic financial challenges, executing day-to-day finance operations, driving financial models, assisting with purchase orders and accounts payable, and gaining hands-on experience in FP&A, accounting operations, vendor payments, and pricing/unit economics modeling.

Etched is seeking a Design Verification Engineer for their Systems/Performance Verification team. This role focuses on ensuring the custom IPs for their hardware products are robust, high-performance, and silicon-ready. Responsibilities include collaborating with architects and designers, developing test plans and infrastructure, and debugging performance issues.

Etched is seeking an RMA & Repair Lead to build and manage their end-to-end returns and repair operations for AI hardware. This hands-on, technical role involves owning the RMA process, developing repair workflows, managing repair capabilities (in-house or outsourced), and defining technical repair strategies, debug flows, and failure analysis requirements.

Physical Design Engineer at Etched responsible for block-level implementation from synthesis through GDSII sign-off. This role involves driving PPA optimization, collaborating with RTL designers, and ensuring block-level timing closure and signoff across various checks.

Senior Physical Design Engineer responsible for full-chip implementation, including floorplanning, P&R, clocking, timing analysis, physical verification, and sign-offs from synthesis to GDSII. The role involves leading critical efforts in PPA optimization and timing closure, collaborating with RTL designers, and owning end-to-end physical verification closure.

Etched is hiring an entry-level Technical Recruiter to join their team. This role involves end-to-end recruitment responsibilities including sourcing, screening, coordinating interviews, and closing candidates. The position offers mentorship from experienced recruiters and the opportunity to contribute to building recruiting systems.

Etched is hiring a Formal Verification Engineer to join their ASIC Design Verification team. The role involves driving formal verification for custom IP, interface IP, and SoC subsystems, working closely with architects, RTL designers, and DV engineers to ensure design correctness and expose bugs.

Inference Software Engineer at Etched focused on building and scaling inference software. Responsibilities include porting models, enhancing runtime for multi-node inference, optimizing communication layers, and debugging performance issues.

Physical Design Engineer at Etched responsible for block-level and subsystem implementation from synthesis through GDSII sign-off. This role involves driving PPA optimization, timing closure, and physical verification, while collaborating with RTL designers and supervising outsourced work.

Lead the development and adoption of next-generation infrastructure tooling for Etched's AI inference system. Architect and implement an observability stack with LLM integration, focusing on telemetry, log aggregation, and alerting. This role requires strong software engineering, quality instincts, and deep systems understanding to build and manage infrastructure with precision.

Chip Simulation Software Intern at Etched. This role involves co-designing, developing, and testing simulations of custom hardware and tools for analyzing these systems. The intern will work closely with software and hardware teams throughout the development path.

Etched is seeking a Design Verification Engineer for their Systems/Performance Verification team. This role focuses on ensuring the custom IPs for their hardware products are robust, high-performance, and silicon-ready. Responsibilities include collaborating with architects and designers, developing test plans and infrastructure, and debugging performance issues.

Etched is seeking an Optical Systems Engineer to define and implement optical interconnect architectures for next-generation accelerator systems. This role involves evaluating and integrating new interconnect technologies, driving prototypes to production, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.

This is a Supercomputing Test Software Engineer role at Etched, focusing on ensuring the reliability and stability of their inference server hardware and software. The engineer will design, develop, and execute automated test suites, analyze results, and debug hardware/software failures.

Firmware Engineer at Etched, focusing on hardware for frontier intelligence. This role involves co-developing software optimized for AI models, solving full-stack problems from drivers to applications, and contributing to AI solutions for NLP and generative media. Requires 3 years of experience in software development, data structures, algorithms, launching products, firmware design, and embedded architectures.

Corporate Paralegal at Etched, a company building hardware for frontier intelligence. This role involves ownership of critical legal work including corporate governance, financings, strategic transactions, Board matters, contracts, and entity management. The paralegal will manage legal processes, records, and coordinate complex workstreams.

Etched is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to enhance developer productivity and infrastructure. This role involves building systems that accelerate chip design, simulation, and AI model deployment in a hybrid cloud environment. Responsibilities include developing automation tools, optimizing job scheduling, building observability solutions, managing containerized environments, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines.

Substrate IC Package Layout Design Engineer at Etched. This role focuses on the end-to-end design of complex IC substrate packages for high-power consumption and high-speed signaling. Responsibilities include leading substrate layout design, ensuring robust power delivery for custom silicon solutions, and developing high-speed signal routing solutions.

Etched is seeking an Experiences Lead to build and manage the company's physical presence at industry events, recruiting functions, product launches, and internal gatherings. This role involves end-to-end event ownership, from creative direction and logistics to budget management and vendor relations, in close collaboration with founders and other creatives.

Security Engineer at Etched responsible for protecting networks, systems, and applications. This role involves designing, implementing, and operating monitoring, detection, and response infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments, focusing on scalability and automation.

Etched is hiring an Advanced Packaging Si/Pi Engineer to be responsible for the electrical performance of their AI accelerator platform across silicon, package, and board. The role involves SI/PI analysis, driving SI requirements into layout, and owning PDN design and decoupling strategy.

DFT Intern at Etched. This role involves reviewing and refining DFT flow automation for chip-level regression, contributing to DFT verification (MBIST, Scan, BSCAN, SSN simulations), and developing flows for ATPG fault models. The internship is available for Summer '26, Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27.

Senior Electrical Engineer, Hardware Systems at Etched responsible for leading schematic design of accelerator system components, collaborating with cross-functional teams on system-level design problems, and defining bring-up and validation plans. Requires extensive experience with high-speed interfaces and modern AI/datacenter system architecture.

Inference Architecture Intern at Etched, focusing on designing next-generation AI accelerators for inference workloads. Responsibilities include porting models, enhancing runtime systems, optimizing communication layers, and co-designing hardware instructions and model architecture operations.

Senior Design Verification Engineer specializing in Interface IP at Etched. This role involves end-to-end ownership of IP subsystems like PCIe, Ethernet, and CPU, developing UVM/SystemVerilog verification environments, and collaborating with integration teams to ensure hardware-software stack correctness and performance.

Lab Technician contractor at Etched responsible for hardware development and validation. This role involves building, integrating, and debugging prototype servers and racks, executing test procedures, and maintaining lab environments. The technician will collect and document system health data, monitor equipment performance, and enforce lab safety procedures.

Design Verification Engineer at Etched, focusing on internal IP. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining UVM/SystemVerilog testbenches for high-performance IPs like systolic arrays, DMA engines, and NoCs, defining and executing verification plans, and debugging complex issues.

Thermal Manufacturing Engineer at Etched focused on liquid cooling systems, primarily cold plates. This role involves owning the development, qualification, and scaling of manufacturing processes from NPI to mass production, with a focus on fabrication methods like skiving, brazing, and friction stir welding.

Etched is hiring an Inventory Warehouse Coordinator to manage inventory operations for their hardware development. This hands-on role involves receiving, inspecting, and organizing materials, maintaining accurate inventory records, and fulfilling requests from engineering teams. The position requires working a swing shift (3pm-12am, Monday-Friday) and commuting between Etched facilities in San Jose and Milpitas.

Lab Operations Intern at Etched, an AI hardware company. This onsite role in San Jose involves running test stations, assembling and reworking hardware, cabling racks, and managing inventory to ensure the 24/7 operation of AI chips and systems. The intern will gain hands-on experience with the end-to-end process of creating working hardware systems.

Silicon Validation Engineer, Software at Etched. This role involves developing firmware and low-level software to validate AI/ML accelerator ASICs throughout their lifecycle. Responsibilities include pre-silicon emulation, post-silicon bring-up, characterization, and hands-on hardware debugging.

Etched is seeking a highly experienced Thermal/Mechanical Hybrid Engineer to lead efforts in optimizing thermal management for high-performance data center products. The role involves designing direct-to-chip cold plate modules, focusing on water cooling solutions, thermal simulations, and mechanical engineering.

IT Engineer at Etched responsible for ensuring the high-performance engineering and operations environment runs seamlessly. This role involves providing hands-on IT delivery and support, managing onboarding/offboarding, maintaining documentation, and administering endpoint security solutions for Mac and Windows devices.

Electrical Platform Intern at Etched. This role involves hands-on product design and the development of design and validation infrastructure for bleeding-edge systems and silicon. Interns will work across mechanical and electrical engineering aspects of high-power ASIC systems.

This is a Senior Physical Design Engineer role at Etched, focusing on hardware for frontier intelligence. The engineer will be responsible for block-level implementation and verification, timing closure, PPA optimization, and supervising third-party design work.

Post-Silicon Validation Engineer at Etched responsible for ASIC bring-up, validation, and characterization from first silicon through production ramp. This role ensures functional correctness, performance, and reliability of AI/ML accelerator hardware by debugging silicon issues, validating IP blocks, and developing validation infrastructure.

Etched is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter to manage the full-cycle recruiting process for technical talent. This role involves sourcing candidates from unconventional places, partnering with hiring managers, facilitating interviews, and improving recruiting systems. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in competitive technical recruiting markets.

Etched is seeking a Senior Hardware System Engineer to lead board development for their accelerator systems. Responsibilities include schematic design, system-level problem-solving with other engineering disciplines, and collaborating with ODMs/OEMs on bring-up and validation.

Etched is seeking a Head of Technical Accounting to establish and lead their technical accounting and financial reporting functions. This role involves implementing revenue, inventory, and warranty policies, building external financial reporting capabilities, and partnering with leadership to develop a deal desk playbook for novel structures.

Etched is seeking a Power Integrity Engineer to join their platform electrical engineering team. This role will own the power integrity methodology for high-power PCB and system designs, ensuring robust power delivery to high-performance ASICs. Responsibilities include performing PDN analysis, DC IR-drop simulations, AC impedance analysis, and VRM model validation.

Etched is hiring an Emulation Engineer, Hardware Prototyping. This role involves owning HAPS bring-up, expanding platform coverage, supporting firmware/driver/software engineers, debugging complex issues across FPGA boundaries, bringing up various interfaces, and building automated build and regression flows. The engineer will collaborate with design, DV, silicon validation, performance, firmware, and software teams, as well as Synopsys.

Data Center Engineer at Etched responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of data center and hardware lab environments. This includes facility selection, rack design, power distribution, networking, cabling, hardware management, operations, and capacity planning for inference hardware.

RTL Design Engineer at Etched responsible for developing and implementing design verification strategies for AI ASIC designs. Requires at least 5 years of RTL development experience, proficiency in RTL design and synthesis tools, and familiarity with verification work.

Hardware Validation Engineer at Etched. This role involves validating system hardware and PCB functionality, ensuring robust power and signal margins. Responsibilities include collecting and analyzing lab data, supporting post-silicon characterization, and evaluating PCIe and I2C performance.

Etched is hiring a Prototype Engineering Lead to establish and manage an in-house prototyping division. This role involves setting up a quick-turn machine shop, sheet metal cell, assembly area, and SMT line, with a focus on same-day or next-day turnaround for prototype parts. Responsibilities include hiring and leading a team, managing operations, budget, and quality infrastructure.

Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (SI/PI) Engineer at Etched responsible for owning the SI/PI methodology for high-speed PCB and system designs. This role involves performing pre- and post-layout SI simulations, conducting channel analysis, executing PDN design and analysis, and supporting bring-up and debug.

Etched is seeking a Senior Asic Architect to design and optimize next-generation AI accelerators for inference workloads. This role involves developing compute architectures, contributing to power and area estimation, creating architectural specifications, and collaborating with cross-functional teams using cycle-accurate simulators and analytical models.

Senior Product Engineer, Silicon Validation at Etched. This role leads silicon validation, test program development, and productization for AI accelerator chips. Responsibilities include planning and executing characterization, optimizing test costs, architecting test flows, driving yield improvement, and supporting manufacturing transitions.

Physical Design Engineer - Flow & Methodologies at Etched. This role focuses on architecting and building the automated RTL-to-GDSII physical design flow from scratch. Responsibilities include automating PD flows, managing CAD infrastructure, driving project convergence dashboards, and optimizing tool flows.

Design Verification Intern at Etched, focusing on ensuring the robustness, high-performance, and silicon-readiness of custom IPs for frontier intelligence hardware. Responsibilities include collaborating with architects, RTL designers, and SW/FW/emulation teams to validate correctness and performance across the hardware-software stack.

People Operations Intern at Etched. This role supports People Operations and Legal by owning work across compliance, audits, employee operations, contracts, and company projects. Responsibilities include running internal audits, tracking compliance, reviewing data, supporting contracts, managing onboarding/offboarding, and building employee guides.

Performance Tools Intern at Etched will design and develop performance analysis tools for ML accelerators. Responsibilities include building profiling infrastructure, collecting and analyzing performance data, developing tracing tools, and correlating performance events across various system components.

This Supercomputing Software Engineer role at Etched focuses on developing and integrating foundational software for server infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing BIOS, BMC firmware, boot processes, root of trust, system logging, and kernel-mode drivers, as well as integrating data center orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.

Etched is seeking a Silicon Operations Program Manager to develop and maintain end-to-end production schedules for silicon wafers, interposers, and test/assembly. This role involves coordinating with foundries and OSATs, tracking capacity planning, managing procurement of silicon components, and acting as the operational lead between internal teams and suppliers.

Etched is seeking a Head of Legal / General Counsel to lead and scale their legal function. This hands-on leadership role involves managing the existing legal team, hiring new talent, and building processes and automation to support company growth. The General Counsel will own the legal strategy, partner with the executive team, and prepare the company for an IPO.

Founding Creative at Etched, a role focused on building a consequential brand for the 21st century. The individual will define how the world understands the company's mission to run the world's inference and translate the founders' vision into multi-media creative artifacts.

Product Quality Engineer at Etched, based in the US, responsible for ensuring robust quality systems across suppliers and manufacturing partners for advanced AI hardware. This role involves owning quality assurance for hardware builds, driving inspection and test strategies, and resolving systemic issues.

Lead Software Engineer for Performance Tools at Etched, responsible for designing and developing a performance analysis suite for their custom ML accelerator. This role involves creating tooling to understand workload behavior, identify bottlenecks, and unlock the potential of the hardware for demanding ML applications.

This is a Senior Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure role at Etched. The individual will own end-to-end program delivery, driving alignment between internal teams, managing external vendors, and establishing KPIs and operational cadences. Responsibilities include fostering collaboration across Infrastructure teams, partnering with vendors, and proactively identifying and mitigating risks.

Etched is seeking a founding Demand Planner to manage demand forecasting, supply planning, and finished goods inventory for S&OP objectives. This role involves developing and executing demand-supply plans, monitoring inventory and production, and partnering with Manufacturing and Global Supply Management to translate forecasts into build plans and mitigate risks.

Substrate IC Package Layout Design Engineer at Etched responsible for end-to-end design of complex IC substrate packages. This role involves designing large substrate designs (>50mm), complex power delivery networks, and high-speed signaling solutions (up to and beyond 50GHz) for high-power AI processors and accelerators.

Head of Platform Product Reliability at Etched, an executive-level engineering role focused on ensuring the reliability of AI infrastructure systems. This position involves defining and owning the end-to-end reliability strategy, establishing qualification standards, and building reliability engineering processes across the product lifecycle.

Growth Ops Intern at Etched, an AI hardware company. This role focuses on executing the company's early-career hiring strategy, including identifying students, partnering with recruiters, and planning events. Responsibilities also involve marketing and sourcing candidates, as well as tracking engagement and conversion.

Etched is seeking a Senior Design Verification Engineer for their Interface IP DV team. This role involves end-to-end ownership of IP subsystems like PCIe, Ethernet, and CPU, developing UVM/SystemVerilog verification environments, and collaborating with integration teams to ensure hardware-software stack correctness and performance.

Firmware Intern at Etched will develop firmware for custom ASICs designed to run large transformer models efficiently. Responsibilities include working on low-level drivers, hardware interfaces, system initialization, and integration with runtime libraries. The role involves collaborating with hardware, architecture, and software teams to bring up new silicon and validate features.

Mechanical/Thermal Intern at Etched, focusing on NPI prototyping, manufacturing fixture development, liquid cooling, and rack-level system development for high power ASIC systems. Requires progress towards a Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical Engineering or related field, and hands-on project experience.

Physical Design Intern at Etched responsible for realizing front-end designs in silicon. This role involves assisting in developing and running Physical Design flows to synthesize blocks, automate final design checks, and advise RTL design decisions. The internship is available for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27.

Firmware Engineer at Etched, focused on co-developing cutting-edge software optimized across hardware and software for AI models. Responsibilities include solving full-stack problems from low-level drivers to high-level applications, contributing to AI solutions for natural language processing, chain of reasoning automation, and generative media.

Accelerator Software Engineer at Etched. This role focuses on developing the software that makes custom hardware chips usable, spanning ASIC firmware, microcontroller firmware, and host-side kernel drivers. Responsibilities include working on bootloaders, IO drivers, DMA data transfer, and Linux kernel drivers for inference workloads.

Kernel Driver Software Engineer at Etched. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining high-reliability kernel-mode drivers for AI workloads. Responsibilities include performance optimization, collaborating with hardware engineers, implementing virtualization support, and debugging complex driver issues.

PCB Layout Engineer at Etched responsible for designing and optimizing printed circuit boards for high-performance data center products. This role involves using Cadence Allegro for high-speed signaling (100G), power distribution networks, and complex HDI PCB stack-ups.

This is a general application for Etched, a company building hardware for frontier intelligence with a focus on inference. They are seeking unconventional thinkers, builders, and problem-solvers who can articulate their vision for impact. The role is not pre-defined, encouraging candidates to propose their own contributions.

Etched is hiring a Network Security Engineer to own the design and implementation of their network security posture. This role involves designing and implementing a zero-trust network architecture, defining and enforcing network segmentation policies, and deploying and operating network detection and response capabilities.

Etched is hiring a Manufacturing Operations Program Manager in Taiwan to lead day-to-day execution at their contract manufacturer. This role is responsible for ramping and sustaining production of AI hardware, including package assembly and server construction, and requires hands-on problem-solving in a high-volume environment.

Etched is seeking a senior ASIC Technical Program Manager to drive technical execution within their silicon team. This role involves owning program coordination across Physical Design, DFT, DV, and RTL teams, managing external vendor relationships, and proactively identifying and mitigating risks in the ASIC development cycle.

This is a Senior Technical Recruiter role focused on Supercomputing/ML at Etched. The recruiter will own the full-cycle recruiting process, source candidates from unconventional places like GitHub and arXiv, and build partnerships with hiring managers.

Power Validation Engineer at Etched responsible for end-to-end power characterization of ASIC and mezzanine card platforms. This includes designing measurement methodology, building test benches, and driving findings into silicon, package, and system design decisions.

Etched is seeking an Electrical Engineering Technician to support hardware development and validation. This role involves executing electrical test procedures, maintaining documentation, and ensuring lab environments are functional. The technician will operate test equipment, collect and validate data, and troubleshoot issues.

Etched is hiring a Security Engineer to protect their AI hardware infrastructure. This role involves designing, implementing, and operating monitoring, detection, and response systems across on-prem and cloud environments. The engineer will manage security baselines, drive threat detection, and ensure security enhances innovation.

Etched is seeking a Supercomputing Engineer to build foundational software for cluster-scale AI compute deployments. This role involves developing and debugging control-plane software, system bring-up, telemetry, orchestration, and performance tuning at the hardware-software boundary.