Etched
Thermal Lab Lead
San Jose
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About the role
- You will interface with thermal technicians, plan, and delegate tests to meet aggressive timelines.
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day thermal lab operations, including test benches, equipment, and consumables inventory.
- Develop test plans and procedures in partnership with thermal engineering.
- Own test setup, instrumentation, execution, data-quality review, and reporting against agreed objectives and acceptance criteria.
- Develop, maintain, and validate automation tools for test execution, data acquisition, and data reduction and analysis.
- Lead thermal technicians, assign testing activities, provide technical guidance, and review completed work.
- Maintain lab procedures and coordinate equipment maintenance, calibration, and safe operating practices with lab operations.
- Partner with lab operations to plan future lab capabilities, equipment, and infrastructure.
- Commission CDUs and liquid-cooled racks to support lab testing.
- Assist in the design and buildout of Etched thermal labs in Taiwan.
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Requirements
- Experience selecting, installing, and troubleshooting instrumentation such as flowmeters, thermocouples, and pressure transducers, as well as operating chillers and liquid-cooling test equipment.
- Working knowledge of heat transfer and fluid flow sufficient to interpret test results and troubleshoot thermal-fluid systems.
- Experience coordinating competing testing priorities and providing technical direction to technicians.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
Company info
- We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes.
- We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills.
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