Etched
Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Hardware)
$150K–$400K
San Jose · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- At least 1-5+ years; startup experience is described as ideal.
About the job
Build AI agents and full-stack internal tools that remove bottlenecks in Etched’s hardware engineering workflows and help the company move faster.
What you'll do
- Identify high-impact hardware-team bottlenecks and deliver tools engineers use in their daily work.
- Build and deploy LLM agents integrated into engineering workflows using tool-calling and MCP; develop and evaluate internal products, pipelines, and infrastructure.
- Measure tool effectiveness and adoption, and take on time-sensitive 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, evals, and failure analysis.
- Product sense, attention to detail, and ability to own ambiguous 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, MCP, tool-calling, RAG
AI focus
Build agentic harnesses and LLM agents for hardware engineering workflows; use AI coding tools and frontier models, and design evaluations to measure effectiveness.
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