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.
Job Summary
The Core Operations team tackles critical challenges across the organization and works directly with our leadership team. We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.
This role requires business acumen, analytical skills, strong interpersonal skills, and ownership of high-priority initiatives. While your focus will shift over time, you will be working on the most important problems of today. It will be fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and offer opportunities to take on greater responsibilities while helping shape our company’s direction.
Key responsibilities
Support the execution of high-priority, high-scope projects, ensuring measurable outcomes that align with the company’s objectives.
Assist in preparing strategic insights and actionable recommendations to the leadership team through rigorous data analysis, identifying process gaps, and driving performance improvements across the business.
Work cross-functionally between the executive team and departments across the organization to track progress and ensure timely, high-quality execution of key projects.
Work with leadership to set and track key performance indicators, monitoring organizational performance and identifying opportunities for optimization.
You may be a good fit if you have
Progress in a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or related fields.
Previous internship experience in high-ownership, high-pressure roles within startup environments.
Ability to support multiple concurrent high-impact projects from inception to completion. Skilled in driving alignment across teams, ensuring accountability, and delivering results.
Comfort with ambiguity and working within a rapidly changing environment with shifting priorities.
Ability to quickly synthesize information, create compelling presentations, and parse complex data.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification.
Program details
12-week paid internship
Generous housing support for those relocating
Daily lunch and dinner in our office
Based at our office in San Jose, CA
Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers
Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time
For any questions, contact [email protected].
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.
Skills Required
- Previous internship experience in finance, consulting, or startup environments
- Ability to support multiple concurrent high-impact projects
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities
- Expertise in designing and developing reports on metrics
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.
