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
We are seeking talented Spring ‘27 and Summer ‘27 IA Research Engineer interns to build the agents that accelerate how Etched produces frontier tokens. You will embed with our kernels team and work alongside our founders on agentic harnesses, tools, and evals that let agents do long-running engineering work people actually rely on. This role is for builders who thrive on ambiguity, have real product sense, and want to own problems end to end. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a record of shipping projects other people use
- Built agents for multi-step tasks beyond calling an API: tool design, context management, evals, and failure analysis
- Heavy use of coding agents, including reading their transcripts and changing the system when an agent is confidently wrong
- High agency in unfamiliar domains, product sense, and extreme attention to detail
- Chip development, GPU kernels, hardware, or manufacturing
More about this role
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.
We are seeking talented Spring ‘27 and Summer ‘27 IA Research Engineer interns to build the agents that accelerate how Etched produces frontier tokens. You will embed with our kernels team and work alongside our founders on agentic harnesses, tools, and evals that let agents do long-running engineering work people actually rely on. This role is for builders who thrive on ambiguity, have real product sense, and want to own problems end to end.
Embed with our kernels team to find high-leverage bottlenecks and help turn them into tools engineers use every day.
Build and deploy LLM agents wired into our engineering workflows via tool-calling and MCP.
Help build execution environments where agents can verify their own work, with sandboxed access to simulators,...
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