Infrastructure Software Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Building cutting-edge model-specific ASICs requires crafting custom infrastructure and toolchains to support ultra-fast, reliable, and scalable development across the stack - from simulation to silicon. We build this infrastructure as software - and we engineer it with the same best practices we apply to our products. We use the same rigor, design discipline, and quality standards and testing as we do to our ASIC, software, and platform.

🏢 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.

🎯 The Role

You will lead the development and adoption of next-generation infrastructure tooling, enabling Etched ASIC, Software, and Platform engineers to iterate faster, build more reliably, and push the boundaries of AI performance. This includes building and scaling our hybrid high-performance compute (HPC) cluster, optimized for massively parallel CI, EDA workflows, Emulation, and hardware-aware job execution.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and build the orchestration layers that drive our hybrid high-performance clusters—enabling simulation, synthesis, and continuous integration of AI ASICs at unprecedented scale.
• Develop and maintain a fully programmable infrastructure control plane to ensure reproducibility, auditability, and rapid iteration across the entire stack.
• Create tools and abstractions that empower engineers to harness massive parallelism without worrying about the underlying complexity.
• Prototype and execute workload orchestration and migration strategies between on-premise and cloud environments, balancing performance, storage availability and replication, uptime, and cost across heterogeneous hardware and compute backends.
• Implement real-time telemetry, tracing systems that surface insights from millions of metrics, enabling proactive debugging and system optimization.
• Build a full observability stack that includes dashboards, alerting, automated responses, and a synthetic testing framework to proactively test infrastructure performance and reliability for various application and data flows, ensuring we remain proactive against issues impacting development and productivity workflows.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Are a systems-minded software engineer who loves building foundational platforms, working close to the metal and cloud, solving high-leverage problems at scale.
• Are a deeply technical engineer who treats infrastructure as a software problem - prioritizing clean abstractions, version control, small change lists, easy roll backs, testing, and long-term maintainability over ad hoc configuration.
• Have strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Go, Rust, and C++, and are comfortable building production-grade tooling.
• Possess expert-level knowledge of Linux, virtualization, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines, with a deep understanding of how to debug, optimize, and scale complex systems.
• Are familiar with Infrastructure as Code tools like OpenTofu, Ansible, or Puppet, and enjoy designing declarative, reproducible infrastructure systems.
• Understand and use PromQL and other telemetry/query languages and have used LLM to extract insight from real-time metrics, and know how to architect and tune observability stacks.
• Have a track record of debugging and resolving difficult hardware-software integration problems across bare-metal systems, networks, and distributed workloads.
• Can lead and mentor technical teams, guiding design decisions and helping others develop their skills.

🎁 Benefits

Compensation: $150K – $250K • Plus Significant Equity

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