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Accelerator Software Engineer

Etched· Software
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San JoseFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Role focused on accelerator software that turns custom hardware into an inference system, spanning ASIC software, platform firmware, and host-side kernel/drivers with opportunities to specialize in one area while contributing across others.

Responsibilities

  • Own the accelerator software that turns our custom hardware into an inference system, from power-on to inference execution.
  • Translate inference software requests into low-level device operations and scheduling decisions at nanosecond-level timescales.
  • Work across ASIC software, platform firmware, and host-side kernel and drivers.
  • Specialize in one of three areas (ASIC Software, Platform Software, or Host-side Kernel and Drivers) and contribute across the others as the team grows.
  • Build software that runs directly on the accelerator (CPU initialization, RTOS, boot ROMs/bootloaders, MMU/IO drivers, on-device inference execution).
  • Build microcontroller/FPGA firmware for power sequencing, bring-up, telemetry, updates, thermal/power management, fault detection and recovery.
  • Develop Linux kernel and device drivers, PCIe/DMA, memory management, virtualization/SR-IOV, and high-throughput, low-latency command flows.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong C/C++ and software engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience building and debugging low-level software that interacts directly with hardware.
  • Depth in firmware, embedded systems, device runtimes, operating systems, or kernel/driver development.
  • Experience shipping software on real hardware into production.
  • Familiarity with ARM, PCIe, DMA, HBM, DRAM, Ethernet, UART, RTOS, or FPGA systems.
  • Strong systems intuition around performance, concurrency, memory, reliability, and fault handling.

Skills

Required:C/C++Low-level hardware interactionFirmware/embedded systemsLinux kernel and drivers
Nice to have:Hardware familiarity

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)
  • Wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
  • Daily lunch + dinner in our office
  • Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Last updated Oct 22, 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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