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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
As a research lead, you will set the research direction for this effort and spearhead the development of self-improving agents that reliably complete difficult, long-running engineering tasks. At Etched, this loop compounds: better agents help us build and optimize our systems faster, better systems expand our capacity to run more experiments, generating feedback and training data that further improve agent capabilities. Your job is to make this loop work in practice.
This requires strong research judgment. Where will better memory, context, or tooling unlock new capabilities? Which tasks benefit from structured workflows, and which require more open-ended autonomy? When do agent limitations call for changes to the harness, and when do they require custom models trained with supervised fine-tuning or reinforcement learning? You will set research priorities and design experiments that guide our investments in in-context learning, model training, and harness design.
You will work closely with engineers embedded across the company, with an initial focus on ASIC development, inference, and supercomputing. First, you will build the environments that let existing models do their best work through better tools, context, feedback, and in-context learning. Then, you will use the resulting trajectories and evaluations to develop specialized models where they can improve capability, reliability, or cost.
This is a hands-on research leadership role. You should be comfortable setting direction, writing and debugging code, and carrying an idea through to production. Research success means measurable improvements in the work Etched can accomplish, with disciplined use of compute.
Base Compensation Range
$175K – $275K
. 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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