Infrastructure Intern

The Consensus; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 27,552 - 41,328; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12-week internship

Housing support

Daily lunch and dinner

Office in San Jose, CA

Mentorship from industry leaders

Work on impactful problems

Job summary

Etched is seeking students for Summer/Fall/Spring internships in San Jose, CA. The role focuses on infrastructure tooling for HPC clusters, CI workflows, and infrastructure-as-code, with a strong emphasis on performance and reliability.

Ideal candidates are pursuing CS/Engineering degrees and have experience in C/C++, Rust, Python, and low-level software concepts. Relentless curiosity and collaboration are highly valued as you work with world‑class engineers.

Qualifications

• Pursuing Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in CS/Engineering or related field.
• Proficiency in C/C++ or Rust.
• Proficiency in Python (for interns interested in systems software).
• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms.
• Strong understanding of low-level software engineering.
• Strong understanding of hardware/software co-design.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Work on infrastructure tooling for hybrid-cloud HPC clusters, CI executions, and IaC.
• Develop high-quality tools that engineers love using and enable faster iteration.

Skills

C/C++

Rust

Python

Data structures & algorithms

Low-level software

Hardware/software co-design

Communication

Education

Pursuing Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in CS/Engineering

Job description

About Etched

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads. Our first products are heavily focused on inference. Backed by hundreds of millions from top-tier investors and staffed by leading engineers, Etched is redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest growing industry in history.

Job Summary

Our infrastructurerole drives the development and adoption of next-generation infrastructure tooling, enabling Etched ASIC, Software, and Platform engineers to iterate faster, build more reliably, and push the boundaries of AI performance. This includes working on our hybrid-cloud high-performance compute (HPC) clusters, massively parallel CI executions, Infrastructure-as-code, scale-out observability platform with LLM integration, and building high-quality tools that engineers love using. We are looking for Summer '26, Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

• Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Proficiency in C/C++ or Rust
• Proficiency in Python (for interns interested in systems software)
• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of low-level software engineering
• Strong understanding of hardware/software co-design
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Strong candidates may also have (Nice to have qualifications)

• Experience with Linux internals, kernel development, or driver debugging
• Experience with hardware diagnostics or interpreting hardware logs
• Exposure to server virtualization or CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Rust or embedded development

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification.

Program details

• 12-week paid internship
• Generous housing support for those relocating
• Daily lunch and dinner in our office
• Based at our office in San Jose, CA
• Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world‑class engineers
• Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time

For any questions, contact [e-mail]

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.

We are a fully in‑person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.