Etched
Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Special Projects)
$150K–$400K
San Jose · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- At least 1–5+ years building and shipping software end to end.
About the job
Build agentic tools and full-stack internal products to remove bottlenecks and accelerate Etched’s engineering and hardware-building workflows.
What you'll do
- Identify high-leverage bottlenecks and build tools engineers rely on, from initial idea through deployment.
- Build LLM agents integrated into engineering workflows using tool-calling and MCP, and ship internal products across interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
- Design evaluations, track tool adoption, and take on founder-led special projects tied to critical milestones.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Use AI tools and frontier models to learn unfamiliar domains quickly.
- Product sense, attention to detail, and demonstrated agency in identifying and solving problems.
Nice to have
- Exposure to chip development, kernels, hardware, or manufacturing; infrastructure, data engineering, or DevOps experience.
- Fine-tuning, RAG over proprietary technical data, multi-agent orchestration, or startup experience, especially through hypergrowth.
Pay
$150K – $400K+ USD base salary
Tools
LLM agents, tool-calling, MCP, RAG
AI focus
Build and evaluate LLM agents and AI tooling integrated into engineering workflows; use AI and frontier models to accelerate work.
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