Lab Technician (Contractor)

Uncover; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 39,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily lunch and dinner in our office

Job summary

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. We are seeking a hands-on Lab Technician to support hardware development and validation, assembling boards into chassis and getting systems to mechanical bring-up for testing.

In this contractor role, you will execute test procedures, maintain rigorous documentation, and keep our lab environments running across multiple projects. You will work with the lab operations team and hardware engineers to ensure data integrity and timely insights,

Qualifications

• Experience preparing test benches and hardware fixtures.
• Strong data collection and documentation habits; maintain traceable records.
• Comfort organizing lab logs, databases, and test reports for cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Prepare mechanical set-ups, test benches, fixtures, and lab environments for validation and development.
• Collect and validate system health data with accurate documentation for QA.
• Monitor equipment performance, identify anomalies, and troubleshoot to minimize downtime.
• Organize and maintain lab logs, databases, and test reports for engineers.

Skills

Test benches

Documentation

Lab logs

Job description

# Lab Technician (Contractor)Etched • • • 6h agoSave this role or tell us whether you want more jobs like it.**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** We're looking for a hands-on Lab Technician to support our hardware development and validation efforts. As a Lab Technician, you'll build, integrate, and debug prototype servers and racks — assembling boards into chassis, routing power and signal cabling, and getting systems to mechanical bring-up so engineers can start testing. In this role, you'll also own the execution of test procedures, maintain rigorous documentation standards, and keep our lab environments running smoothly across multiple concurrent projects. You'll work closely with lab operations team and hardware engineers to ensure data integrity and help us move fast without cutting corners.**Key Responsibilities*** Prepare mechanical set-ups, test benches, fixtures, and lab environments to support platform validation, inference kernal development, firmware engineering and more across multiple concurrent projects* Collect, record, and validate system health data, maintaining accurate and traceable documentation for analysis and quality assurance* Monitor equipment performance, identifying anomalies and troubleshooting issues to maintain system integrity and minimize downtime* Organize and maintain lab logs, test databases, and results reports, communicating findings clearly to hardware engineers and project teams* Enforce lab safety procedures and compliance standards while managing equipment maintenance, inventory, and calibration schedules**Must-Have Qualifications*** Experience preparing test benches and hardware fixtures across multiple concurrent projects* Strong data collection and documentation habits — accurate, traceable records are second nature to you* Comfort organizing and maintaining lab logs, databases, and test reports for a cross-functional engineering audience**Nice-to-Have Qualifications*** Familiarity with lab safety compliance and managing equipment maintenance, inventory, and calibration schedules**Benefits** • Daily lunch and dinner in our office**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 and Taipei, 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 as needed.