Embedded Software Engineer for Inference Chips

Etched; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Housing subsidy

Relocation support

Wellness benefits

Daily lunch in our office

Unlimited compute budget

Job summary

Etched in San Jose is seeking an engineer to own accelerator software, spanning ASIC firmware, microcontroller firmware, and host kernel interfaces. You will connect the chip to the host, enabling low-latency inference workflows.

Effective candidates will have strong firmware expertise, embedded systems knowledge, and hands-on experience with Linux drivers and PCIe, contributing across disciplines as the team grows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong software development fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
• Experience shipping and testing software on products that have gone to production.
• Depth in firmware design, implementation, and debugging.
• Familiarity with embedded architectures and IO technologies like ARM, PCIe, DMA, HBM, DRAM, Ethernet, UART.

Responsibilities

• Own the accelerator software that makes our chips usable across ASIC, MCU, and host interfaces.
• Collaborate on ASIC architecture, on-device inference instruction execution, bootloaders, IO drivers, and on-chip software.
• Develop platform software for power sequencing, telemetry, and firmware updates.
• Build and maintain host-side Linux kernel drivers and memory management for high-throughput interfaces.
• Grow across domains and contribute across firmware, platform, and host software as the team expands.

Skills

Data structures

Algorithms

Firmware design

Embedded systems

Linux kernel

PCIe

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Etched in San Jose is seeking an engineer to own accelerator software, spanning ASIC firmware, microcontroller firmware, and host kernel interfaces. You will connect the chip to the host, enabling low-latency inference workflows.

Effective candidates will have strong firmware expertise, embedded systems knowledge, and hands-on experience with Linux drivers and PCIe, contributing across disciplines as the team grows.