About Etched
Etched is building the world’s first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents. 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 we scale our company, we will face many operational challenges. From deciding pricing, SKUs, and unit economics to accounting, financing strategies, and supply chain management, we are looking for a Finance intern to tackle strategic financial challenges and execute on our day-to-day finance operations.
You will work closely with the executive team to drive financial models, assist with purchase orders and accounts payable, and learn about key strategic issues across the organization, from supply chain to product. You’ll get hands-on experience across FP&A, accounting operations, vendor payments, and pricing/unit economics modeling.
You may be a good fit if you have
Previous internship experience in consulting, banking, or early startup environments
Understanding of cash flow management, bank reconciliation, and bookkeeping
Track record of excellent project management and data analysis skills
Willingness to do a broad set of finance, accounting, and operations work
Comfort with Excel/Sheets or basic financial modeling
Strong candidates may also have experience with
Technical Curiosity: experience, education, or interest in computer science, electrical engineering, artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
Industry interest: Deep curiosity about the AI ecosystem, including emerging trends, cutting-edge technologies, and industry innovations.
Startup Acumen: Interest in startup finance (equity, cap tables, fundraising)
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 think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models, and the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model-specific hardware. Larger and larger training runs encourage companies to consolidate around fewer model architectures, which creates a market for single-model ASICs.
We are a fully in-person team in West San Jose, 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 as needed.
Skills Required
- Previous internship experience in consulting, banking, or early startup environments
- Understanding of cash flow management, bank reconciliation, and bookkeeping
- Track record of excellent project management and data analysis skills
- Comfort with Excel/Sheets or basic financial modeling
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.
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What We Do
By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we’re creating the world’s most powerful servers for transformer inference.
