Chief Architect, Cluster-Scale AI Inference

The Consensus; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision packages

Housing subsidy near Santana Row

Relocation support to San Jose

Wellness benefits

Daily lunch and dinner in office

Unlimited compute budget

Job summary

Etched, building at-scale AI inference supercomputers powered by its own chips, is seeking a Head of Supercomputing to define and lead the architecture, software stack, and operational model for cluster-scale AI compute systems.

This leader will own the end-to-end system software and control-plane strategy—from orchestration, telemetry, provisioning, networking, to fleet reliability—working with ASIC, hardware, kernel, runtime, and infrastructure teams to deliver the highest-performance

Qualifications

• 15+ years in system software or large-scale compute design.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of hardware/software interfaces (PCIe, RDMA).
• Experience building or operating cluster-scale AI infrastructure.
• Proven ability to deliver complex systems from bring-up to production.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for Etched’s Supercomputing software stack, from node bring-up to multi-rack clusters.
• Build, scale, and lead a high-performance Supercomputing organization.
• Directly manage and develop 15+ engineers with a variety of experience levels.
• Architect and own low-level control-plane software for system bring-up, provisioning, networking, configuration, and fleet management.
• Define orchestration primitives for managing devices, nodes, racks, and full cluster deployments.
• Oversee development of system services that interface with firmware, drivers, kernel subsystems, and runtime layers.
• Establish system telemetry and observability infrastructure for customers.
• Own the system software lifecycle from first silicon bring-up through stable production releases.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and test engineering to integrate diagnostics and system software into factory environments.
• Define reliability targets, operational metrics, and release processes for production deployments.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain exceptional systems engineers and engineering leaders.
• Act as a senior technical voice shaping company-wide infrastructure decisions.

Skills

System software leadership

Large-scale compute systems

Hardware/software interfaces

Team leadership

HPC/AI infrastructure

PCIe/RDMA knowledge

Debugging HW-SW

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Etched, building at-scale AI inference supercomputers powered by its own chips, is seeking a Head of Supercomputing to define and lead the architecture, software stack, and operational model for cluster-scale AI compute systems.

This leader will own the end-to-end system software and control-plane strategy—from orchestration, telemetry, provisioning, networking, to fleet reliability—working with ASIC, hardware, kernel, runtime, and infrastructure teams to deliver the highest-performance