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Supercomputing Engineer, Fleet Software

Etched· Software
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San Jose$200k - $350kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Fleet Software Engineer focused on scaling deployments, configuration management, safe software/firmware rollouts, telemetry, and fleet monitoring for Etched's hardware-focused inference platform.

Responsibilities

  • Build the fleet management system that provisions, configures, updates, and recovers Etched-owned hardware across labs and customer deployments
  • Implement safe software and firmware rollouts, including validation, staged deployment, and handling of partial failures
  • Build telemetry and log pipelines that collect rack metrics and logs into a central store, including decisions on storage, retention, and query performance
  • Develop monitoring, alerting, and analysis tools that help engineers, their agents, and customers understand fleet behavior and investigate failures
  • Build secure, least-privilege access to BMCs and servers across lab, office, and data center networks
  • Give lab operators simple controls for managed hardware, such as draining and powering down for repair, and rolling out validated versions
  • Partner with Node Systems to define the interfaces, clients, and validated configurations needed to manage hardware across the fleet
  • Work with Customer Deployments, Infrastructure, Lab Operations, and Factory Testing, including support for customer environments, local monitoring, and customer telemetry ingress and analysis
  • Act as first-line triage for issues on Etched-owned systems, find root causes in the management system, and escalate to Infrastructure when needed
  • Turn lessons from deployments and incidents into engineering priorities, and help decide where to adopt existing tools versus building our own

Qualifications

  • Experience building infrastructure software and owning it in production, including deployments, incidents, and the changes that followed
  • Background in fleet management, provisioning, configuration management, or observability for compute infrastructure or connected devices
  • Solid distributed systems and Linux fundamentals. You understand how systems behave under load, during upgrades, and when components fail
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration, including running it on bare metal
  • Experience with Slurm or similar HPC and GPU cluster schedulers and resource management
  • Experience with network boot and bare metal provisioning (PXE, HTTP boot, iPXE, DHCP/TFTP) to bring hosts up and re-image them at scale
  • Strong proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, Rust, or C/C++
  • Strong debugging skills using logs, metrics, and tracing
  • Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating across hardware, firmware, and software teams

Skills

Required:Infrastructure software developmentFleet management / provisioning / configuration management / observabilityDistributed systems / Linux fundamentalsKubernetes / container orchestrationProgramming languages (Go/Python/Rust/C/C++)Debugging with logs, metrics, tracingCross-team communication
Nice to have:Slurm or HPC/GPU cluster schedulersBare metal provisioning / network boot (PXE, HTTP boot, iPXE, DHCP/TFTP)

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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