Etched
Fleet Software Lead
San Jose · Senior
Stay score
odds of building a lasting career here
Thin sponsorship signal and lottery-bound. A low-probability bet with your clock running. Prioritize cap-exempt roles and proven entry-level sponsors first.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →Employer immigration record
from this employer's Department of Labor filings
Files H-1B transfers
Sourced from Department of Labor LCA, PERM and prevailing-wage disclosure data. Employer matching is by name, so figures may be split across an employer's legal entities. Absence of a filing means none appears in our copy of the data, not that none exists.
Community outcomes
No reports yet — be the first to help the next applicant.
About the role
- This role presents an opportunity to shape how frontier inference hardware is deployed, managed, and orchestrated for our customers.
- Engineers and their agents use this data to investigate failures, spot patterns and continually improve the performance and reliability of the inference fleet.
- Someone who has built infrastructure and owned it through real deployments in the field.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Fleet Software team. Set priorities, hire and mentor engineers, and give team members clear ownership.
- Guide the design of telemetry and log pipelines, including decisions around storage, retention and query performance.
- Partner with our Node Systems Systems team to define the interfaces and validated configurations needed to manage hardware across the fleet.
- Work with deployment teams to support customer environments, including local monitoring and customer telemetry analysis.
- Turn lessons from deployments and incidents into engineering priorities, and decide where to adopt existing tools versus building our own.
- Stay involved through design reviews, code contributions and hands-on debugging, particularly on the team's hardest technical problems.
- Experience building infrastructure software and owning it in production, including deployments, incidents and the changes that followed.
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including leading projects or managing engineers.
- You can work through a difficult problem with an engineer and contribute to the implementation.
- Experience setting technical direction, mentoring engineers and getting work shipped across team boundaries.
- You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)
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
- This team's work will shape how Etched scales to a computing platform that customers depend on at massive scale.
- We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes.
- Lead the development of monitoring, alerting and analysis tools that help engineers and customers understand fleet behavior and investigate failures.
- We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills.
This listing is sourced directly from Etched's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.