Head of Inference Performance & System Visibility

Etched; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Housing subsidy

Relocation support

Wellness benefits

Daily lunch and dinner

Unlimited compute budget

Job summary

Etched in San Jose is seeking a Head of Performance Visibility to define how performance is understood across next-generation AI accelerator systems. You will establish abstractions, cross-layer event correlation, and scalable reasoning across nodes and racks, shaping tooling and telemetry for years to come.

You will lead engineering across hardware, drivers, runtimes, and ML infrastructure, driving performance intelligence, time-alignment strategies, and production-grade telemetry for

Qualifications

• Deep experience building complex systems at the intersection of hardware and software.
• Personally envisioned and built significant portions of profiling, tracing, or observability systems.
• Demonstrated ability to translate raw hardware signals into scalable telemetry and analysis infrastructure.
• Experience correlating time-series events across distributed systems.
• Deep systems programming expertise (C++ or Rust) near hardware or runtime systems.
• Experience designing distributed correlation mechanisms, timestamp-alignment, or performance modeling frameworks.
• Experience leading cross-functional architectural initiatives spanning hardware and software teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the architectural approach for performance telemetry across CPUs, drivers, interconnects, and accelerators.
• Design scalable models correlating performance events across device and host boundaries.
• Develop mechanisms to align hardware counters, runtime activity, and workload semantics for coherent insight.
• Implement time synchronization and trace-alignment across multi-device systems.
• Define structured counter taxonomies and derived performance models.
• Build tools to identify bottlenecks across multi-accelerator workloads and distributed inference.

Skills

Hardware-software co-design

Profiling/Observability

C++ or Rust

Distributed tracing

Time-series correlation

Performance modeling

Leadership

Tools

Telemetry tooling

Distributed systems tooling

Job description

Etched in San Jose is seeking a Head of Performance Visibility to define how performance is understood across next-generation AI accelerator systems. You will establish abstractions, cross-layer event correlation, and scalable reasoning across nodes and racks, shaping tooling and telemetry for years to come.

You will lead engineering across hardware, drivers, runtimes, and ML infrastructure, driving performance intelligence, time-alignment strategies, and production-grade telemetry for