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San Jose, CA, United States
Source: Etched careers · View original posting
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Job Summary
Our Internal Acceleration team’s mandate is to build agents to accelerate the production of frontier tokens.
You’ll work directly with our founders and embed with our hardware team to build new agentic harnesses and operating systems to transform the way hardware is built in an AI native world. Your work will vary widely, and your success is measured by how much faster Etched moves, not by the lines of code you write.
This role is for engineers who thrive on ambiguity, have real product sense, and want to own problems end to end. It’s a whiteboard for future founders. The problems we solve are time-sensitive and business-critical. This role will not be a 9-5, and the ideal candidate is excited about that.
Use AI to ramp fast on unfamiliar domains. Agentic coding tools and frontier models are how you work, not an add-on Have product sense, design taste, and extreme attention to detail
Have extreme agency: you find the real problem, not just the stated one
Base Compensation Range
$150K – $400K+
Plus Significant Equity
How we’re different
Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. 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.
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.
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