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Infrastructure Software Engineer

Etched· Software
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San Jose$150k - $330kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Building cutting-edge model-specific ASICs requires crafting custom infrastructure and toolchains to support ultra-fast, reliable, and scalable development across the stack—from simulation to silicon. We build this infrastructure as software and engineer it with the same rigor, design discipline, and testing as our ASIC, software, and platform. Lead development and adoption of next-generation infrastructure tooling to enable Etched ASIC, Software, and Platform engineers to iterate faster, build more reliably, and push AI performance. Architect and implement a state-of-the-art observability stack with LLM integration and streaming telemetry across CI pipelines, simulation clusters, and service endpoints.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the orchestration layers that drive our hybrid high-performance clusters—enabling simulation, synthesis, and continuous integration of AI ASICs at unprecedented scale.
  • Develop and maintain a fully programmable infrastructure control plane to ensure reproducibility, auditability, and rapid iteration across the entire stack.
  • Create tools and abstractions that empower engineers to harness massive parallelism without worrying about the underlying complexity.
  • Prototype and execute workload orchestration and migration strategies between on-premise and cloud environments, balancing performance, storage availability and replication, uptime, and cost across heterogeneous hardware and compute backends.
  • Implement real-time telemetry, tracing systems that surface insights from millions of metrics, enabling proactive debugging and system optimization.
  • Build a full observability stack that includes dashboards, alerting, automated responses, and a synthetic testing framework to proactively test infrastructure performance and reliability for various application and data flows, ensuring we remain proactive against issues impacting development and productivity workflows.

Qualifications

  • Have 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems programming, or backend software development - ideally in environments where performance, scale, or hardware interaction mattered.
  • Are a systems-minded software engineer who loves building foundational platforms, working close to the metal and cloud, solving high-leverage problems at scale.
  • Are a deeply technical engineer who treats infrastructure as a software problem - prioritizing clean abstractions, version control, small change lists, easy roll backs, testing, and long-term maintainability over ad hoc configuration.
  • Have strong programming skills in Python, Go, Rust, and C++, and are comfortable building production-grade tooling.
  • Possess expert-level knowledge of Linux, virtualization, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines, with a deep understanding of how to debug, optimize, and scale complex systems.
  • Are familiar with Infrastructure as Code tools like OpenTofu, Ansible, or Puppet, and enjoy designing declarative, reproducible infrastructure systems.
  • Understand and use PromQL and other telemetry/query languages and have used LLM to extract insight from real-time metrics, and know how to architect and tune observability stacks.
  • Have a track record of debugging and resolving difficult hardware-software integration problems across bare-metal systems, networks, and distributed workloads.
  • Can lead and mentor technical teams, guiding design decisions and helping others develop sound engineering instincts.

Skills

Required:Hybrid HPC orchestrationInfrastructure as CodeObservability and telemetryDistributed systemsProgramming languages

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
  • Housing subsidy of $2,500 per month for those living within walking distance of the office
  • Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
  • Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
  • Daily lunch + dinner in our office
  • Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Etched is building frontier inference clusters: co-designs chips, racks, software and manufacturing to push the pareto frontier for AI hardware.

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