Internal Acceleration, Engineer (ASIC)

Our Internal Acceleration team's mandate is to build agents to accelerate the production of frontier tokens. You'll work directly with the founders and embed with the ASIC team to build new agentic harnesses and operating systems to transform the way hardware is built in an AI native world. Your work will vary widely, and your success is measured by how much faster Etched moves, not by the lines of code you write. This role is for engineers who thrive on ambiguity, have real product sense, and want to own problems end to end. The problems solved are time-sensitive and business-critical. This role will not be a 9-5, and the ideal candidate is excited about that.

Responsibilities

Embed with the ASIC team to find the highest-leverage bottlenecks and own each one from first idea to a tool engineers rely on every day; Build and deploy LLM agents wired into engineering workflows via tool-calling and MCP; Ship full-stack internal products from zero to one, including interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure that define how Etched builds; Measure what works by designing evals and tracking adoption; Take on special projects directly with the founders, surfacing company-wide problems and doing whatever it takes to hit critical milestones

Requirements

At least 1-5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup; Strong full-stack skills, focused on whether what you ship works; Have built LLM agents or AI tooling that real users depend on, including context engineering, tool integration, evals, and failure analysis; Use AI to ramp fast on unfamiliar domains, with agentic coding tools and frontier models as a core part of how you work; Product sense, design taste, and extreme attention to detail; Extreme agency: you find the real problem, not just the stated one

Nice to have

Exposure to chip development, kernels, hardware, or manufacturing; Infrastructure, data engineering, or DevOps experience; Fine-tuning, RAG over proprietary technical data, or multi-agent orchestration; Startup experience, especially through hypergrowth

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 and dinner in the office; Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification; Plus significant equity