Jobs at Etched

The Core Ops Intern will support strategic initiatives, drive collaboration across departments, assist in decision-making, and establish operational metrics to enhance performance.

Manage the operations of a mechanical lab, ensuring machine maintenance, safety compliance, inventory management, and support engineering teams. Oversee additive manufacturing and maintain an organized workflow.

The Electrical Engineer will lead schematic design for accelerator modules, collaborate on system requirements, and manage documentation and testing for hardware systems.

Manage end-to-end design, planning, and delivery of technical infrastructure for Etched facilities. Lead design and construction for lab and rack facilities, drive RFIs/RFQs and capital requests, manage vendors and troubleshooting, oversee commissioning and operations hand-off, and coordinate stakeholders with frequent travel for site audits.

Provide end-to-end IT support for engineering and operations, manage endpoints and MDM/MAM, administer identity and access (SSO/IAM), design and secure networks (VPNs, VLANs, firewalls), implement EDR/XDR, automate workflows (Python/Bash/PowerShell), and coordinate vendors to maintain high operational reliability and compliance.

The internship involves hands-on product design, development of design infrastructure, and system integration for high power ASIC systems, focusing on mechanical and electrical engineering aspects.

Build and maintain automation, CI/CD, and observability for hybrid cloud and on-prem HPC workflows. Optimize Slurm scheduling, manage containerized environments, integrate cloud resources, implement caching/artifact systems, and support security, secrets management, and developer productivity across hardware and software teams.

The Emulation Engineer will oversee SoC bring-up and debugging, develop automated flows for pre-silicon validation, implement hybrid emulation environments, and create chip-to-chip network models, collaborating with various teams.

As a DFT Intern, you will refine DFT flow automation, support chip-level regression, and aid DFT verification, working closely with design teams.

Lead definition of system-level performance metrics and abstractions across custom silicon, runtimes, compilers, and distributed inference clusters. Design telemetry taxonomies, cross-layer event correlation, time-alignment strategies, and cluster-scale performance reasoning. Build developer tooling and analysis engines to surface actionable insights and influence instrumentation for future hardware.

Own end-to-end product economics across semiconductor and system costs, manufacturing, supply, inventory, pricing, customer monetization, and margins. Build financial models, product-roadmap business cases, forecasts, dashboards, and investment analyses. Partner with Product, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, GTM, and Finance to improve margins, guide capital allocation, and translate AI infrastructure performance into pricing and executive decisions.

Research and write technically rigorous content about AI, inference, compute, chips, systems, and infrastructure. Responsibilities include long-form analysis, product launches, leadership ghostwriting, customer case studies, technical briefs, social content, and data-driven visuals. The role partners closely with engineers and executives to develop original viewpoints, explain complex concepts, and establish Etched’s technical voice across audiences and channels.

Develop, deploy, and operate agentic AI systems that drive manufacturing decisions across S&OP, material planning, production, quality, logistics, and customer deployments. Embed with cross-functional teams to model demand, supply, BOMs, capacity, and risk; build agents that generate executable plans, propagate design changes, run historical replays and live evals, and continuously evaluate frontier models and optimization methods to improve ramp speed and schedule attainment.

Build AI systems that autonomously turn new model architectures into verified, production-ready kernels optimized for Etched hardware. Develop agentic tooling to generate, compile, profile, and iterate on implementations; design evals for correctness, stability, latency, and efficiency; turn profiler traces and hardware signals into learnable datasets; ship model-generated improvements and partner with architecture teams to influence hardware-software roadmap.

Own and architect the automated RTL-to-GDSII physical design flow: build/maintain CAD infrastructure, automate regressions and run management, integrate signoff tools, create PG meshes and DRC-clean floorplans, drive PPA tuning and timing correlation, and partner with block owners to encode methodology fixes for scalable tapeout.

Lead manufacturing readiness for AI hardware from DFM through production ramp. Coordinate cross-functional execution across prototype, EVT/DVT/PVT, and mass production, manage contract manufacturers, track KPIs (yield, cycle time, quality), drive RCA for issues, and report status and risks to leadership while supporting factory bring-up and continuous improvement.

Lead full-chip physical implementation from synthesis to GDSII: floorplanning, P&R, clocking, MMMC timing closure, timing constraints and ECOs, full-chip physical verification (DRC/LVS/ERC/antenna/density/fill), debug PV violations, and tapeout signoff using automated flows and Innovus.

Own block- and subsystem-level physical design from synthesis through GDSII sign-off: floorplanning, synthesis, placement, CTS, routing, timing closure, signoff (EM/IR/RC/DRC/LVS), generate abstracts and timing budgets, collaborate with RTL designers, and supervise outsourced PD work.

Lead end-to-end manufacturing test program management from prototype through mass production. Define test strategy, coordinate cross-functional teams, deploy test hardware/software/fixtures with CM/FATP partners, drive yield improvements and failure analysis, and travel to manufacturing sites to ensure production readiness.

The role involves leading design for manufacturing initiatives, collaborating with suppliers, qualifying production processes, and ensuring high-quality mechanical components production.