Role OverviewEtched 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. Our first products are heavily focused on inference. This role is for builders who thrive on ambiguity, have real product sense, and want to own problems end to end.
What You Will Do
Embed with our kernels team to find high-leverage bottlenecks and help turn them into tools engineers use every day. Build and deploy LLM agents wired into our engineering workflows via tool-calling and MCP. Help build execution environments where agents can verify their own work, with sandboxed access to simulators, compilers, profilers, and real hardware.
Why It Might Be a Fit
You may be a good fit if you have strong software engineering fundamentals and a record of shipping projects other people use. You should have high agency in unfamiliar domains, product sense, and extreme attention to detail.
Requirements
- Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a record of shipping projects other people use
- Built agents for multi-step tasks beyond calling an API: tool design, context management, evals, and failure analysis
- Heavy use of coding agents, including reading their transcripts and changing the system when an agent is confidently wrong
- High agency in unfamiliar domains, product sense, and extreme attention to detail
Benefits
- 12-week paid internship
- Generous housing support for those relocating
- Daily lunch and dinner in our office
- Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers
- Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time
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