Etched
Systems Validation Engineer, L10
San Jose · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 85 days ago
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About the role
- You will be the L10 System Validation Engineer, defining what it means for the accelerator platform to be production-ready.
Responsibilities
- Author and own the L10 system debug guide, serving as the definitive reference for factory failure analysis and debug teams.
- Own end-to-end escalation, debug, and resolution of L10 hardware failures across internal and field teams
- Develop and own L10 system debug guide to be used for the factory by the failure analysis / debug team.
- Own bring-up and integration across accelerator cards, interconnects (Retimers, C2C fabric), power (PSU, power integrity), and thermal domains.
- Lead system-level debug with no guaranteed starting point: hardware, firmware (BMC, BIOS, CPLD), and software all in scope simultaneously.
- Build ad-hoc instrumentation, automation scripts, and debug workflows to extract signals from unstable, pre-spec systems.
- Drive issue closure across cross-functional engineering teams: HW, FW, SW, thermal, power, and manufacturing.
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Requirements
- 10+ years in system validation, platform bring-up, or a tightly adjacent discipline - with direct, solo ownership of full L10 (tray/rack) integration on multi-component platforms.
- Experience validating AI accelerator or high-performance compute platforms with accelerators, NVMe, high-speed interconnects, and complex power delivery.
- Track record of detecting integration issues before they escape to production - in environments where specs, tooling, and infrastructure were still being built.
- Familiarity with BMC/IPMI, UEFI/BIOS bring-up, and CPLD firmware debug.
- Experience with HBM or CSRAM memory subsystem validation.
- 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
- Partner directly with CMs to validate incomplete systems, close coverage gaps, and gate production ramp.
- Proven ability to build a coverage model that produces quantitative platform readiness metrics
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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