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 a Thermal Manufacturing Engineer to own the development, qualification, and scaling of thermal management manufacturing processes for Etched's silicon-to-system products. This role is focused on liquid cooling systems—primarily cold plates—and the manufacturing processes required to bring them from prototype to high-volume production.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or thermal systems manufacturing, with direct hands-on experience producing liquid cold plates or heat exchangers
- Demonstrated expertise in two or more of the following cold plate fabrication processes: skiving, vacuum brazing, friction stir welding, diffusion bonding, gun drilling, or extrusion-based channel formation
- Strong understanding of aluminum and copper alloy properties, braze alloy selection, and metallurgical failure modes relevant to thermal hardware
- Experience qualifying cold plate manufacturers and running process capability studies (Cpk, GR&R) for leak rate, flatness, pressure drop, and thermal resistance
- Hands-on experience with cold plate inspection and test methods: helium leak testing, hydrostatic pressure testing, flow/pressure-drop characterization, flatness measurement
- Experience with DFM/DFY reviews for cold plate and liquid cooling system designs
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 a Thermal Manufacturing Engineer to own the development, qualification, and scaling of thermal management manufacturing processes for Etched's silicon-to-system products. This role is focused on liquid cooling systems—primarily cold plates—and the manufacturing processes required to bring them from prototype to high-volume production.
You will be the technical authority on cold plate fabrication methods including skiving, brazing, friction stir welding, diffusion bonding, and related processes. You'll work hands-on with contract manufacturing partners and internal hardware, thermal, and systems teams to ensure our liquid cooling solutions meet the demanding performance, quality, and reliability requirements of frontier AI...
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