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Senior Manufacturing Software Engineer

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

Design and build backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that support manufacturing test and factory operations. Own software for manufacturing release management, deployment, versioning, and traceability across production environments.

What they're looking for

  • 6+ years of experience building production software, backend services, or data platforms
  • Strong Python development experience (or equivalent expertise in Go, Java, C#, or TypeScript with Python proficiency)
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, CI/CD, version control, code review, debugging, and production monitoring
  • Experience designing scalable APIs, databases, data models, and distributed systems
  • Experience integrating software with external systems and building reliable production services
  • Experience developing internal applications, dashboards, or operator-facing software
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.

Job Summary

Etched is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Software Engineer to build the software platform that powers manufacturing test across new product introduction and mass production for our frontier AI systems.

This is a software engineering role embedded within Manufacturing Test Engineering, working closely with hardware, firmware, software, quality, and factory operations. You'll build the backend services, APIs, data pipelines, release infrastructure, and test station software that enable scalable, automated manufacturing across our global factory network. Your work will help ensure every Etched system can be built, tested, and deployed with speed, quality, and traceability.

Design and build backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that support...

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