Job Summary
We’re building a small team of multi-disciplinary creatives with the ambition to create the most consequential brand of the 21st century.
Our mission is to run the world’s inference. Your work will define how the wider world understands who we are, what we’re building, and why it matters – all during the most important inflection in the company’s history.
If you’re a fan of our work and think we can do better, reach out and tell us what you’d change. We want to talk.
You may be a good fit if
You’ve created at least one “banger” across mediums (e.g. video, brand design, tweet, manifesto)
Your brain can’t stop generating ideas
You have a maniacal attention to detail
You’re curious
You’re looking for your magnum opus
You have extreme agency
Key Responsibilities
Create a brand that becomes synonymous with AI and its promise
Translate the founders’ vision into multi-media creative artifacts
Strong candidates may also have
A large X following
A defined viewpoint on the future of AI
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
$500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
Housing subsidy of $2.5k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
Daily lunch and dinner in our office
Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
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.
About Etched
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.
Skills Required
- Exceptional writing ability, especially explaining complex technical subjects
- Experience producing substantive long-form writing, technical analysis, research, or similarly rigorous written work
- Strong research skills and ability to develop original arguments from technical information, data, and primary sources
- Technical aptitude to understand AI models, inference, accelerators, distributed systems, and AI infrastructure
- Ability to interview engineers and subject matter experts effectively
- Strong editorial judgment
- Ability to write for detailed technical and concise social formats
- Deep familiarity with technical conversations across AI
- Ability to independently take content from idea through publication
- Portfolio demonstrating clear thinking, technical depth, and strong judgment
- Technical background in computer science, electrical engineering, machine learning, distributed systems, semiconductors, or a related field
- Experience writing about AI models, inference, GPUs, ASICs, datacenters, networking, or AI infrastructure
- Experience as an engineer, researcher, technical writer, journalist, analyst, or investor covering technical subjects
- Experience developing data-driven arguments using benchmarks, charts, models, or quantitative analysis
- Experience writing for technical founders, executives, or subject matter experts
- Experience producing technical launch content with product or engineering teams
- Experience building an audience through X, blogs, newsletters, or online communities
- Experience working in a fast-moving technical environment
Etched Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Etched and has not been reviewed or approved by Etched.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity growth is described as strong and significant equity is part of the package. High total compensation for technical roles reinforces the equity-led upside.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage include generous premium support, indicating robust core healthcare. This reduces employee cost exposure for essential coverage.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Daily lunch and dinner, a housing subsidy for those living near the office, relocation support, and wellness perks are highlighted. These offerings lower day-to-day living costs and support practical wellbeing.
Etched Insights
What We Do
By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we’re creating the world’s most powerful servers for transformer inference.
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