Frontier AI ASIC Acceleration Engineer – Build Fast

Etched; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Housing subsidy

Relocation support

Wellness benefits

Lunch in office

Compute budget

Job summary

Etched builds hardware for frontier intelligence and is hiring in San Jose. You will embed with our ASIC team to design and ship internal tools, data pipelines, and integration workflows that accelerate AI-native hardware development.

You will own problems end to end, run practical experiments, and partner with the founders on high-impact, time-sensitive initiatives that stretch beyond a 9-5 schedule.

Qualifications

• 1–5+ years building and shipping software end to end at startups.
• Strong full-stack capabilities with a ship-first mindset.
• Built LLM agents or AI tooling with real user impact.
• Able to ramp quickly in unfamiliar domains using agentic tools.

Responsibilities

• Embed with the ASIC team to identify bottlenecks and own them end to end.
• Build and deploy LLM agents wired into engineering workflows via tool-calling.
• Ship full-stack internal products from interfaces to data pipelines.
• Measure success with evals and adoption, pruning non-critical tools.
• Tackle special projects directly with founders to hit milestones.

Skills

End-to-end dev

Full-stack dev

LLM agents tooling

Product sense

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Etched builds hardware for frontier intelligence and is hiring in San Jose. You will embed with our ASIC team to design and ship internal tools, data pipelines, and integration workflows that accelerate AI-native hardware development.

You will own problems end to end, run practical experiments, and partner with the founders on high-impact, time-sensitive initiatives that stretch beyond a 9-5 schedule.