Etched
Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (ASIC)
San Jose · Senior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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$5,896 more — $155,896 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $155,896 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Electronics Engineers, Except Computer" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Electronics Engineers, Except Computer (17-2072) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- You'll work on harnesses, tool use, context, and memory, execution environments, and evals that let agents conduct long-running engineering work that is useful.
- The problems we solve are time-sensitive and business-critical.
- This role will not be a 9-5, and the ideal candidate is excited about that.
Responsibilities
- Embed with our ASIC team to find the highest-leverage bottlenecks, and own each one from first idea to a tool engineers rely on every day.
- Build and deploy LLM agents wired into our engineering workflows via tool-calling and MCP.
- Build execution environments where agents can verify their own work, with sandboxed access to simulators, EDA flows, compilers, profilers, and real hardware.
- Measure what works. Design evals and track adoption so we double down on the tools that matter and kill the ones that don't.
- Ship full-stack internal products from zero to one: the interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure that define how Etched builds.
- Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence.
- We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads.
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Nice to have
- Have at least 1-5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup
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
- Plus Significant Equity
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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