Etched
Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Production)
$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; ideally at a fast-moving startup.
About the job
Build agentic tools and internal systems that accelerate Etched’s hardware production and engineering workflows.
What you'll do
- Identify production bottlenecks and build tools engineers use, from initial concept through deployment.
- Build LLM agents, tool-calling workflows, and sandboxed environments for agents to verify engineering work.
- Ship internal products, design evaluations, measure adoption, and lead special projects with the founders.
What they ask for
- 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 others depend on.
- Use coding agents extensively and analyze their transcripts.
Nice to have
- Exposure to chip development, kernels, hardware, or manufacturing.
- Infrastructure, data engineering, or DevOps experience; fine-tuning, RAG, or multi-agent orchestration.
Pay
$150K – $400K+ (base salary)
Tools
LLM, MCP, simulators, EDA flows, compilers, profilers
AI focus
Build and evaluate LLM agents for long-running engineering work, including tool use, context and memory, execution environments, and agent verification.
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