Electrical Platform Intern

Etched; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 34,440 - 48,216; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous housing support

Daily lunch and dinner

Direct mentorship from industry leaders

Job summary

A technology startup in San Jose is offering a 12-week paid internship for electrical engineering students. Interns will engage in product design and development for high-power ASIC systems, gaining practical experience in mechanical and electrical engineering. The position includes generous housing support, daily meals, and mentorship from industry leaders, fostering skills that contribute to groundbreaking advancements in AI technology.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field.
• Hands-on experience with mechanical systems, boards, or projects.
• Understanding of board design, high-speed connections, power delivery, and integration.

Responsibilities

• Assist in hands-on product design for cutting-edge ASIC systems.
• Develop design and validation infrastructure for product support.
• Contribute across all aspects of mechanical and electrical engineering.

Skills

Experience building real mechanical systems

Knowledge of board design cycle

High-speed interconnects

Power delivery

System integration

Education

Progress towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering

Computer Engineering or related field

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 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 (June - August 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

For any questions, contact [e-mail]

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.