Electrical Platform Intern

Etched.ai, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 27,552 - 41,328; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing support

Daily lunch and dinner

Direct mentorship

Job summary

Etched.ai, Inc. is offering a paid fall electrical engineering internship in San Jose, CA. Interns will engage in hands-on product design and support the development of silicon systems, while gaining direct mentorship from seasoned engineers.

The internship spans 12 weeks, featuring generous housing support for relocators, and includes daily meals at the office. Candidates should be pursuing a degree in electrical or computer engineering and possess practical project experience.

Qualifications

• Progress towards a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with building mechanical systems or boards.
• Knowledge of high-speed interconnects and system integration.

Responsibilities

• Work on hands-on product design and validation infrastructure.
• Contribute to the design of boards for cutting-edge systems.
• Engage in full-stack system support for Etched Silicon.

Skills

Hands-on project experience

Knowledge of board design cycle

Understanding of high-speed interconnects

Power delivery knowledge

System integration experience

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Job description

About Etched

Etched is building the world’s first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real‑time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain‑of‑thought reasoning agents. 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 fall 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.

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 (August - December 2026)
• 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

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models, and the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model‑specific hardware. Larger and larger training runs encourage companies to consolidate around fewer model architectures, which creates a market for single‑model ASICs.

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.

For any questions, contact [e-mail]