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Etched
San Jose, CA, United States
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Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads. Our first products are heavily focused on inference
. Backed by hundreds of millions from top-tier investors and staffed by leading engineers, Etched is redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest growing industry in history.
Job Summary
Designing frontier AI hardware means solving electrical and mechanical problems together: schematics and board layouts, power delivery and signal integrity, packaging and cooling, manufacturing and assembly. Every decision changes the constraints on the next. Future breakthroughs will come from AI systems that can reason across these domains, operate engineering tools, run thousands of experiments, and learn which designs work in the physical world.
You will build those systems. Your mandate is to build agents that take electrical and mechanical designs from requirements through verified, manufacturable outputs. These agents should create and modify CAD models, design schematics and PCB layouts, run simulations, diagnose failures, and iterate with our engineers, pushing the limits of how much of the design process AI can own end to end.
Etched offers a uniquely tight research loop: chips, boards, racks, cooling systems, manufacturing, and dedicated in-office compute under one roof. By architecting and orchestrating agent loops, you will turn proprietary designs, simulation results, engineering decisions, and physical test data into systems that get better with every experiment—and ship the hardware they help design.
Base Compensation Range
$150K – $250K
. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.
We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.
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