Co-designed chips, racks, and software to push the pareto frontier to best-in-class throughput and interactivity. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.
About the role
Define and own the overall test strategy and coverage map across silicon, firmware, board, server, and rack levels, from EVT/DVT/PVT validation through production. Design the test systems and frameworks that carry out that strategy: how tests are structured, versioned, gated, and run across the lab and the factory. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- You have owned the test strategy or test systems for at least one hardware product from bring-up into production
- Hands-on experience across levels of test: low-level firmware, board-level, and system-level testing
- Experience designing regression gating or CI for hardware and firmware
- Strong debugging skills across hardware, firmware, and software, working from logs and lab tools
- Clear communication across teams, and comfort making coverage and risk tradeoffs explicit
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
More about this role
About Etched
Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads. Our first products are heavily focused on inference . Backed by hundreds of millions from top-tier investors and staffed by leading engineers, Etched is redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest growing industry in history.
Job Summary
Etched is seeking a Test Design Engineer to own how our AI systems are tested end to end: the overall test strategy and the test systems that carry it out, from silicon bring-up through boards, servers, and full racks, and from early validation into production.
You will join a new, small central team that owns making testing reliable, repeatable, and scalable. Our domain teams (firmware, system software, inference, platform hardware, and silicon validation) each bring deep expertise in their own tests. You will bring the full picture: what the complete test strategy should be at every stage, how tests are built, gated, and run as one system, whether they actually catch the defects that matter, and how they hold up at production...
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