# Applied AI Engineer, Manufacturing Execution at Etched

- Company: Etched
- What the company does: Co-designed chips, racks, and software to push the pareto frontier to best-in-class throughput and interactivity. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.etched.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Jose
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/9bceaee5-c3b2-4e8e-9ad3-b3b572a8d9cd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/etched-applied-ai-engineer-manufacturing-execution/

## About the role

We are using AI to build and ship AI hardware. Etched’s production ramp requires thousands of interdependent, chained decisions that involve product configurations, material availability, production capacity, capital commitments, complex logistics, field deployments, customer commitments, and more. You will embed with Platform, Production, Supply Chain, Finance, and manufacturing partners to build the agentic systems that make those decisions faster and better.

## What they're looking for

- A track record of solving hard problems across stacks and domains. You enjoy being dropped into unfamiliar territory and figuring it out
- Comfort with Python and code: you can read it, modify it, debug it, and direct AI to write it well. We do not care whether you write code from scratch. We care whether you ship things that work
- Fluency using AI to learn and ramp on new problems, agentic coding tools, deep research, and frontier models are how you work, not an add-on
- Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM-based agents or AI tooling that real users depend on (beyond just calling an AP - context engineering, tool integration, orchestration, failure analysis)
- An eval-driven mindset: you measure whether AI systems actually work before scaling them
- High agency and comfort with ambiguity. You can find the problem, not just solve the stated one

Tags: Software