Etched
Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Production)
$150K–$400K
San Jose · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- At least 1–5+ years; ideally at a fast-moving startup.
About the job
Build and deploy AI agents and internal software that remove production bottlenecks and accelerate how Etched builds hardware.
What you'll do
- Embed with production to identify high-impact bottlenecks and deliver tools engineers use regularly.
- Build LLM agents for engineering workflows and ship full-stack internal products, including interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
- Evaluate tools and track adoption; take on cross-company projects with founders to meet critical milestones.
What they ask for
- 1–5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end.
- Strong full-stack skills.
- Experience building LLM agents or AI tools used by real users, including context engineering, tool integration, evaluations, and failure analysis.
- Product sense, design taste, attention to detail, and strong initiative.
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+ USD base salary
Tools
LLM agents, AI tooling, tool-calling, MCP, RAG
AI focus
Build agentic harnesses and LLM agents for production and engineering workflows; use AI coding tools and frontier models, and design evaluations to measure effectiveness.
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