Etched
Internal Acceleration, Engineer (ASIC)
$150K–$400K
San Jose · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- At least 1–5+ years; the posting does not state alternatives.
About the job
Build AI agents and internal software that remove bottlenecks in ASIC engineering and accelerate how Etched develops hardware.
What you'll do
- Embed with the ASIC team to identify bottlenecks and build tools engineers use in their daily work.
- Build and deploy LLM agents and full-stack internal products integrated into engineering workflows.
- Evaluate tools, track adoption, and work on critical projects with the founders.
What they ask for
- At least 1–5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end.
- Strong full-stack skills.
- Experience building LLM agents or AI tooling used by real users, including context engineering, tool integration, evaluations, and failure analysis.
- Product sense, attention to detail, and ability to own problems end to end.
Nice to have
- Exposure to chip development, kernels, hardware, or manufacturing.
- Infrastructure, data engineering, DevOps, fine-tuning, RAG, multi-agent orchestration, or startup experience.
Pay
$150K – $400K+ (base salary)
Tools
LLM agents, AI tooling, tool-calling, MCP, RAG
AI focus
Build LLM agents and AI tooling for engineering workflows, including tool integration, evaluations, failure analysis, and potentially fine-tuning, RAG, or multi-agent orchestration.
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