Electrical Platform Intern

The Consensus; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 2,755,200 - 4,132,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing support

Lunch provided

Mentorship from leaders

Job summary

Etched is seeking electrical engineering interns to contribute to hands-on product design and the development of validation infrastructure for boards powering bleeding-edge systems. This internship is based in our San Jose, CA office with Fall ’26, Spring ’27, and Summer ’27 programs.

The Platform Team builds the full-stack system from PCB to rack, and interns will work across mechanical and electrical engineering areas under direct mentorship from industry leaders.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field.
• Hands-on hardware experience with boards or real mechanical systems.
• Knowledge of board design cycle, power delivery and system integration.

Responsibilities

• Design and validate boards for bleeding-edge systems and silicon.
• Collaborate across mechanical and electrical engineering to support the platform.
• Contribute to design and validation infrastructure during internships.

Skills

Hands-on hardware experience

Electrical engineering basics

Mechanical design exposure

System integration experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

PCB design tools

EDA tools

Job description

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.

Job Summary

Our electrical engineering interns will work on both hands-on product design and the development of design and validation infrastructure to design boards that will support bleeding edge systems and silicon.

Our Platform Team is building the full-stack system that supports Etched Silicon from PCB to Rack. We are seeking interns to work across all aspects of mechanical and electrical engineering to design the future of high power ASIC systems. We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

• Progress towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field


• Experience building real mechanical systems, boards, or other hands-on projects.


• Knowledge of board design cycle, high-speed interconnects, power delivery, and system integration.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification.

Program details

• 12-week paid internship


• Generous housing support for those relocating


• Daily lunch and dinner in our office


• Based at our office in San Jose, CA


• Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers


• Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time

For any questions, contact [e-mail]

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 as needed.