Etched
Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Hardware)
$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 internal software that help Etched’s hardware engineers accelerate hardware development.
What you'll do
- Identify high-leverage hardware engineering bottlenecks and build tools engineers use in their daily work.
- Build and deploy LLM agents and sandboxed execution environments integrated with engineering workflows.
- Ship internal products, measure their effectiveness, and take on critical projects with the founders.
What they ask for
- At least 1–5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end.
- Experience building agents for complex, multi-step tasks, including tool design, long-context management, evaluations, and failure analysis.
- Strong software engineering experience building reliable systems such as distributed systems, experiment infrastructure, or developer tooling.
Nice to have
- Exposure to chip development, kernels, hardware, or manufacturing.
- Infrastructure, data engineering, DevOps, fine-tuning, RAG over proprietary technical data, multi-agent orchestration, or startup experience.
Pay
$150K – $400K+ USD base salary
Tools
LLM agents, MCP, simulators, EDA flows, compilers, profilers
AI focus
Build agentic harnesses, operating systems, and LLM agents for long-running hardware engineering work; develop tool use, context and memory, execution environments, and evaluations.
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