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Internal Acceleration, Engineer (ASIC)

Etched · San Jose · On-site

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About Etched

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

Our Internal Acceleration team’s mandate is to build agents to accelerate the production of frontier tokens. You’ll work directly with our founders and embed with our ASIC team to build new agentic harnesses and operating systems to transform the way hardware is built in an AI native world. Your work will vary widely, and your success is measured by how much faster Etched moves, not by the lines of code you write. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

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Our Internal Acceleration team’s mandate is to build agents to accelerate the production of frontier tokens.

You’ll work directly with our founders and embed with our ASIC team to build new agentic harnesses and operating systems to transform the way hardware is built in an AI native world. Your work will vary widely, and your success is measured by how much faster Etched moves, not by the lines of code you write.

This role is for engineers who thrive on ambiguity, have real product sense, and want to own problems end to end. It’s a whiteboard for future founders. The problems we solve are time-sensitive and business-critical. This role will not be a 9-5, and the ideal candidate is excited about that.

Have at least 1-5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup

Have strong full-stack skills. We care less about whether you write every line yourself and more about whether what you ship works

Have built LLM agents or AI tooling that real users depend on, which means more than calling an API: context engineering, tool integration, evals, and failure analysis

Use AI to ramp fast on unfamiliar domains. Agentic coding tools and...

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