Firmware Engineer, Accelerator & Inference Systems

Etched.ai; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

$500 monthly credit to waive medical

Housing subsidy near Santana Row

Relocation support to San Jose (Sant安a

Wellness benefits (fitness, mental健康)

Daily lunch and dinner in office

Unlimited compute budget

Job summary

Etched.ai is building hardware for frontier intelligence in San Jose. This role owns the accelerator software that turns our custom hardware into an inference system, spanning ASIC software, platform firmware, and host-side kernel/driver development.

You would specialize in one area while contributing across others as the team grows, ensuring efficient and scalable inference on our accelerator hardware.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong C/C++ and software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building low-level software interacting with hardware.
• Depth in firmware, embedded systems, device runtimes, operating systems, or kernel/driver development.
• Experience shipping software on real hardware into production.
• Familiarity with ARM, PCIe, DMA, HBM, DRAM, Ethernet, UART, RTOS, or FPGA systems.
• Strong systems intuition around performance, concurrency, memory, reliability, and fault handling.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize accelerator software across ASIC, platform, and host-driver stacks.
• Collaborate with hardware and firmware teams to bring up and test hardware.
• Ensure low-latency, high-throughput inference execution on the accelerator.

Skills

C/C++

Software engineering

Low-level programming

Hardware-software integration

Kernel/driver development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

PCIe

ARM architectures

RTOS

Job description

Etched.ai is building hardware for frontier intelligence in San Jose. This role owns the accelerator software that turns our custom hardware into an inference system, spanning ASIC software, platform firmware, and host-side kernel/driver development.

You would specialize in one area while contributing across others as the team grows, ensuring efficient and scalable inference on our accelerator hardware.