Infrastructure Engineer - Labs

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. As an Infrastructure Engineer on the Infra Labs team, you will own and operate rack-scale server infrastructure across Etched's labs and data center sites in the Bay Area, managing the full lifecycle from physical installation through provisioning, testing, and validation of next-generation hardware systems.

What You'll Do

• 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

What You Need

• 4+ years of hands‑on infrastructure, data center systems, or bare‑metal operations experience in on‑premises 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 in active lab environments; ability to work on‑site in San Jose with travel to Bay Area sites

Nice to Have

• Experience operating GPU, accelerator, or HPC clusters including liquid‑cooled systems (in‑rack CDUs, facility liquid cooling, leak detection)
• OCP hardware experience including Open Rack v3, DC bus bar power, and OpenBMC
• Hardware bring‑up and NPI (EVT, DVT, PVT) environments where platforms are still evolving
• High‑performance networking experience with RoCE/RDMA fabrics, Tomahawk‑class switches, Arista EOS or SONiC
• Slurm and Kubernetes cluster operations, NVMe and NFS storage engineering with performance benchmarking
• Colocation build‑outs, FreeIPA/RADIUS/TACACS+ identity and access, Terraform, and experience running mixed Linux distributions (RHEL, Ubuntu)

Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage; $500/month credit for waiving medical benefits; $2,500/month housing subsidy for those within walking distance of office; relocation support; wellness benefits; daily lunch and dinner; unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification