Developer Experience Engineer for HPC & AI Pipelines

The Consensus; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Housing subsidy

Lunch and dinner

Relocation support

Unlimited compute budget

Job summary

Etched is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to boost developer productivity, automation, and infrastructure across hardware and software teams. You will work at the intersection of DevOps, software engineering, and high-performance computing (HPC), building systems that accelerate chip design, simulation, and AI model deployment in a cloud and on-prem hybrid environment.

You will own automation, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and container orchestration to improve build times,

Qualifications

• Strong Python scripting for automation and infra development.
• Experience with Slurm scheduling in HPC or hybrid environments.
• Hands-on exposure to Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Proven CI/CD expertise with modern pipelines and tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation tools to streamline development, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Optimize and manage Slurm-based job scheduling for AI workloads, simulation, and chip design workflows.
• Build observability solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry for monitoring pipelines, infrastructure, and compute clusters.
• Manage and optimize containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes to enhance scalability and reproducibility.
• Enhance build, test, and deployment pipelines with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, or Bazel.
• Develop caching and artifact management systems to reduce build times and improve dependency resolution.
• Integrate and manage cloud resources (AWS, GCP) for scaling compute, storage, and hybrid workloads.
• Support security and compliance efforts including secrets management and access control.
• Document and share best practices for efficient developer tooling and workflows.

Skills

Python

Slurm

Observability

CI/CD

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Buildkite

Job description

Etched is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to boost developer productivity, automation, and infrastructure across hardware and software teams. You will work at the intersection of DevOps, software engineering, and high-performance computing (HPC), building systems that accelerate chip design, simulation, and AI model deployment in a cloud and on-prem hybrid environment.

You will own automation, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and container orchestration to improve build times,