Hands-On Infrastructure Engineer – Lab & Rack Infra

Etched; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Housing subsidy of $2.5k/month

Relocation support to San Jose

Daily lunch in office

Wellness benefits

Unlimited compute budget

Job summary

Etched.ai is building hardware for frontier intelligence and is expanding its Infra Labs to manage rack-scale infrastructure across labs and data centers. You will own server infrastructure, provisioning, networking, and observability across multiple sites, ensuring systems are healthy, discoverable, and scalable.

You will work hands-on with bare-metal racks, collaborate with Lab Operations and Deployment teams, and drive automation using Ansible and Python to support next-generation hardware

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on infrastructure, data center systems, or bare-metal operations experience in on-prem environments.
• Experience across servers, power, Linux, networking, and hardware; able to troubleshoot multiple layers.

Responsibilities

• Own racks and server infrastructure across labs and data center sites, from bring-up to testing.
• Provide full-stack infrastructure for new lab and data center sites: compute, networking, storage, DHCP/DNS, and provisioning services.
• Build and maintain bare-metal provisioning for servers, development kits, and switches using PXE/iPXE, DHCP, and Redfish-based imaging.
• Troubleshoot Linux hosts end-to-end on custom hardware: kernel, PCIe, NIC, storage, boot issues; root-cause analysis.
• Bring racks onto the network: top-of-rack configs, VLAN/IP planning, optics and cabling with network engineers.
• Diagnose hardware faults and coordinate repairs and RMAs with lab staff and vendors.
• Run shared lab compute: manage Slurm cluster for engineers; expand storage/compute as needed.
• Extend observability stack to all racks with dashboards and alerts for health, power, and link status.
• Write infrastructure automation in Ansible and Python; contribute via PRs and tests.
• Manage software releases and changes on lab systems; maintain runbooks and inventory.

Skills

Infrastructure

Linux systems

Networking

Automation (Ansible, Python)

Bare-metal provisioning

SRE/ops mindset

Observability (Prometheus, Grafana)

Cluster management (Slurm)

Tools

Prometheus

VictoriaMetrics

Grafana

Ansible

Python

PXE/iPXE

Redfish/OpenBMC

Job description

Etched.ai is building hardware for frontier intelligence and is expanding its Infra Labs to manage rack-scale infrastructure across labs and data centers. You will own server infrastructure, provisioning, networking, and observability across multiple sites, ensuring systems are healthy, discoverable, and scalable.

You will work hands-on with bare-metal racks, collaborate with Lab Operations and Deployment teams, and drive automation using Ansible and Python to support next-generation hardware