IA Research Engineer Intern - Kernel & Agent Tools

Etched; San Jose (CA); Presencial; USD 30.000 - 47.000; A tiempo parcial

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Housing support

Lunch and dinner provided

Descripción de la vacante

Etched in San Jose, CA is seeking talented Spring ’27 and Summer ’27 IA Research Engineer (Kernels) interns to build the agents that accelerate how Etched produces frontier tokens. You will embed with our kernels team and work alongside our founders on agentic harnesses, tools, and evals that let agents do long-running engineering work people actually rely on.

This role is for builders who thrive on ambiguity, have real product sense, and want to own problems end to end.

Formación

• Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a record of shipping projects other people use
• Built agents for multi-step tasks beyond calling an API: tool design, context management, evals, and failure analysis
• Heavy use of coding agents, including reading their transcripts and changing the system when an agent is confidently wrong
• High agency in unfamiliar domains, product sense, and extreme attention to detail

Responsabilidades

• Embed with our kernels team to find high-leverage bottlenecks and help turn them into tools engineers use every day.
• Build and deploy LLM agents wired into our engineering workflows via tool-calling and MCP.
• Help build execution environments where agents can verify their own work, with sandboxed access to simulators, compilers, profilers, and real hardware.
• Ship internal products end to end, including the interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure behind them.
• Design evals and track adoption to measure which tools are working and which aren’t.
• Support special projects with the founders across the company.

Conocimientos

Software engineering

Shipping projects

Agent design

Context management

Attention to detail

Educación

CS/CE degree progress

Herramientas

MCP

Descripción del empleo

Etched in San Jose, CA is seeking talented Spring ’27 and Summer ’27 IA Research Engineer (Kernels) interns to build the agents that accelerate how Etched produces frontier tokens. You will embed with our kernels team and work alongside our founders on agentic harnesses, tools, and evals that let agents do long-running engineering work people actually rely on.

This role is for builders who thrive on ambiguity, have real product sense, and want to own problems end to end.