Infra Systems Engineer – Bare‑Metal, AI Lab & Data Centers

Etched; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing subsidy

Relocation support

Wellness benefits

Daily lunch and dinner

Medical/dental/vision

Unlimited compute budget

Job summary

Etched is building custom hardware and infrastructure for AI inference at scale. The Infra Labs team seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to own rack-scale server infrastructure across Bay Area labs and data center sites, from physical install to provisioning, testing and validation of next‑gen hardware systems.

You will manage bare-metal fleets, automate provisioning with Ansible and Python, and extend observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and related tools while collaborating with

Qualifications

• 4+ years hands-on infrastructure, data center systems, or bare-metal operations in on‑prem environments with physical hardware.
• Strong Linux systems skills on bare metal including kernel and driver debugging, PCIe and NIC troubleshooting, storage, and boot issues.
• Experience provisioning bare‑metal fleets over the network using PXE/iPXE, DHCP, DNS, and BMC (Redfish or IPMI) management.
• Infrastructure automation experience with Ansible (YAML, Jinja2) and Python, working in Git with pull requests and code review.
• Working networking knowledge including L2/L3 fundamentals, VLANs, LACP, switch configuration, and cabling at 100G and above.
• Physical hands-on capability to rack and unrack servers, run cabling, and work on-site in San Jose with travel to Bay Area sites.

Responsibilities

• Own management and support of racks and server infrastructure across Etched's labs and data center sites through bring-up, validation, and testing phases.
• Deliver full-stack infrastructure for new lab and data center sites including compute, networking, storage, and core services (DHCP, DNS, zero-touch provisioning, NFS).
• Build and maintain bare-metal provisioning for servers, development kits, and switches using PXE/iPXE, DHCP, and BMC/Redfish-driven imaging.
• Troubleshoot Linux hosts end-to-end on custom hardware including kernel, PCIe, NIC driver and firmware, storage, boot, and power issues.
• Extend observability stack (Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana) to lab racks with dashboards and alerts for health, power, and link status.
• Write infrastructure automation in Ansible and Python through pull requests and code review; manage software releases and incident response.

Skills

4+ years infra experience

Linux on bare metal

PXE/iPXE provisioning

Ansible & Python automation

Networking L2/L3

On-site in San Jose

Tools

PXE/iPXE

DHCP/DNS

BMC/Redfish/IPMI

Ansible (YAML, Jinja2)

Python

Job description

Etched is building custom hardware and infrastructure for AI inference at scale. The Infra Labs team seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to own rack-scale server infrastructure across Bay Area labs and data center sites, from physical install to provisioning, testing and validation of next‑gen hardware systems.

You will manage bare-metal fleets, automate provisioning with Ansible and Python, and extend observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and related tools while collaborating with