Supercomputing Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement low-level control-plane software responsible for system bring-up, configuration, and management of cluster-scale AI compute deployments
• Build system services that interact directly with hardware, firmware, and the operating system
• Develop telemetry, logging, and tracing infrastructure for diagnosing failures and driving performance improvements
• Implement orchestration primitives for managing devices, nodes, and racks
• Profile and tune performance across PCIe, memory, networking, kernel, and runtime layers
• Collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, kernel, and runtime teams to co-design system interfaces and behavior

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Experience with data center orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with kernel development, device drivers, or firmware-adjacent software
• Familiarity with PCIe, NUMA, networking, or high-speed interconnects
• Experience with tracing and profiling tools such as perf, eBPF, ftrace, or custom instrumentation
• Experience taking complex systems from early bring-up through stable operation
• Experience designing system test harnesses and failure-injection frameworks
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or cluster orchestration at the node or control-plane level

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
• $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
• Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
• Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
• Variety of wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
• Daily lunch + dinner in our office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

How We’re Different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors. We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.

Compensation Range

$200K - $275K