Factory Test Infra Engineer – Scale AI Hardware

Etched; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity

Top-tier insurance

Job summary

Etched is seeking a Test Infrastructure Engineer to build and run the infrastructure behind factory testing of our AI systems, from new product introduction through mass production. You will join a small, central team that owns making factory testing reliable, repeatable, and scalable across hundreds of boards, servers, and racks under test.

You will own the test execution platform, Linux fleet provisioning, test data pipelines, and release automation, collaborating closely with hardware,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure.
• Strong Linux administration skills: boot process, package management, systemd, storage, and debugging from the command line.
• Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPNs, and how networks are laid out in server rooms or datacenters.
• Experience with distributed systems: services that run across many machines and keep working when some fail.
• Strong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust. Build real tools and services, not only configuration.
• Experience with automation and configuration management (e.g. Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana) and debugging production issues.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Willingness to work onsite in San Jose or Taiwan and travel to manufacturing partners as needed.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the test execution platform that runs factory tests across stations, servers, and racks, and keep it running reliably during factory hours.
• Provision and manage the Linux fleet on the factory floor: OS imaging and network boot, configuration management, and lifecycle automation for test stations and systems under test.
• Design and maintain the networking that test stations and racks depend on, working with factory partners on site.
• Build data pipelines that reliably capture every test run, its logs, and hardware genealogy into a central view of test history, yield, throughput, and unit history.
• Own versioned release, canary, and rollback of factory test packages so new test software reaches production safely and traceably.
• Build monitoring and alerting across factory infrastructure, and lead debugging when infrastructure issues block production.
• Integrate with contract manufacturers' factory systems (MES/SFIS) and with shared internal data platforms.
• Automate repetitive debug work, such as gathering evidence and grouping repeated failure signatures, and help build toward AI-assisted failure triage.

Skills

Linux administration

Networking fundamentals

Distributed systems

Programming: Python, C++, or Rust

Automation & configuration management

Monitoring & observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Etched is seeking a Test Infrastructure Engineer to build and run the infrastructure behind factory testing of our AI systems, from new product introduction through mass production. You will join a small, central team that owns making factory testing reliable, repeatable, and scalable across hundreds of boards, servers, and racks under test.

You will own the test execution platform, Linux fleet provisioning, test data pipelines, and release automation, collaborating closely with hardware,