Frontier AI Production Acceleration Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision packages

Housing subsidy of $2,500 per month

Relocation support to San Jose

Wellness benefits

Daily lunch and dinner

Unlimited compute budget

Job summary

Etched is hiring in San Jose for engineers who thrive in ambiguity and own problems end to end. You will embed with the production team to build agentic harnesses and operating systems for AI-native hardware development. This is a non-standard, founder-level role demanding initiative and rapid iteration.

You should have 1–5+ years shipping software, strong full-stack skills, and experience with LLM agents or AI tooling used by real users. Expect high ownership and visible impact.

Qualifications

• 1–5+ years building and shipping software end to end.
• Strong full-stack capabilities; ship quality, working products.

Responsibilities

• Embed with production team to identify bottlenecks and own them end to end.
• Build and deploy LLM agents wired into engineering workflows via tool-calling and MCP.
• Ship full-stack internal products: interfaces, data pipelines, infrastructure for Etched.

Skills

Years of experience

Full-stack skills

LLM agents / AI tooling

Product sense / design taste

High ownership / initiative

Tools

tool-calling

MCP

Job description

Etched is hiring in San Jose for engineers who thrive in ambiguity and own problems end to end. You will embed with the production team to build agentic harnesses and operating systems for AI-native hardware development. This is a non-standard, founder-level role demanding initiative and rapid iteration.

You should have 1–5+ years shipping software, strong full-stack skills, and experience with LLM agents or AI tooling used by real users. Expect high ownership and visible impact.