Etched
Research Engineer, RL Frontiers
San Jose
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About the role
- As a Research Engineer on the RL Frontiers team, you will train our proprietary frontier models to automate kernel development, ASIC engineering, production pipelines, and 3-D hardware operating systems.
Responsibilities
- Own the post-training stack completely end to end.
- Build RL environments with ASIC, kernel, and supercomputing engineers, rewarded by simulation, formal tools, tests, and hardware measurements.
- Create custom data mixes that unlock frontier performance on relevant tasks.
- Create benchmarks that drive real productivity in the models and avoid reward hacking
- ASIC design or verification, accelerator kernels, or large-scale compute infrastructure.
- Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence.
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
- We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads.
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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