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Node Systems Lead
San Jose
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About the role
- This role presents an opportunity to shape how frontier inference hardware is configured and managed for our customers.
- We're looking for a leader who can set the technical direction and dive deep into difficult systems problems.
- The team's work is central in enabling Etched to deploy inference clusters at massive scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Node Systems team, setting priorities and giving engineers clear ownership.
- Lead the development of rack simulation and diagnostic capabilities that support platform development and debugging.
- Partner with inference software, firmware, and hardware teams to architect our system design for current and next-gen products
- Align with Fleet Software on the configurations and interfaces needed to manage and monitor deployed systems at the cluster-level
- Stay close to the implementation through design reviews, code contributions and hands-on debugging.
- Strong experience developing and debugging production systems software in C, C++ or Rust on Linux.
- Demonstrated ability to investigate performance problems on real hardware and validate improvements through profiling and measurement.
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Requirements
- Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers while staying hands on.
- Experience taking system software or performance improvements from prototype through production deployment.
- Understanding of hardware/software interactions and the ability to debug across application, kernel and device boundaries.
- Ability to work closely with hardware and software teams and translate workload requirements into concrete system changes.
- Experience with low-latency systems, high-frequency trading, HPC, or accelerator-based compute platforms.
- Experience with Linux kernel development or debugging, CPU isolation, NUMA, interrupt affinity, and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with PCIe, DMA, RDMA, device drivers, or high-performance networking.
- Experience bringing up new hardware platforms or working closely with firmware and hardware engineers.
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
- Work with manufacturing and test engineering to establish the software baseline and test coverage needed to ship reliable systems.
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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