Lead Node Systems Architect for Frontier Inference

Linuxconfig; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Housing subsidy

Relocation support

Wellness benefits

Lunch and dinner

Compute budget

Job summary

Etched is hiring a Node Systems Lead to join our Supercomputing org. This role shapes how frontier inference hardware is configured and managed for customers, owning the software layer across host software, system config, and rack interfaces.

You’ll tune scheduling, memory, networking, and host-to-accelerator communication to maximize performance and reliability. We seek a leader who has moved hardware from bring-up to production, built top teams, and stays hands-on with architecture and code.

Qualifications

• Strong experience developing and debugging production systems software in C, C++ or Rust on Linux.
• Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers while staying hands on.
• Deep understanding of operating systems fundamentals, including scheduling, concurrency, memory management and I/O.
• Demonstrated ability to investigate performance problems on real hardware and validate improvements through profiling and measurement.
• Experience taking system software or performance improvements from prototype through production deployment.
• Understanding of hardware/software interactions and the ability to debug across application, kernel and device boundaries.
• Ability to work closely with hardware and software teams and translate workload requirements into concrete system changes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Node Systems team, setting priorities and giving engineers clear ownership.
• Set the technical direction for host software, system configuration and rack component interfaces.
• Guide the team’s performance work across CPU scheduling, memory, networking and host-to-accelerator communication.
• Ensure system optimizations become tested, maintainable software and configurations ready for deployment.
• Lead the development of rack simulation and diagnostic capabilities that support platform development and debugging.
• Partner with inference software, firmware, and hardware teams to architect our system design for current and next-gen products
• Align with Fleet Software on the configurations and interfaces needed to manage and monitor deployed systems at the cluster-level
• Work with manufacturing and test engineering to establish the software baseline and test coverage needed to ship reliable systems.

Skills

C/C++/Rust

Linux

Leadership

OS fundamentals

Profiling

Production deployment

Hardware/software collaboration

Job description

Etched is hiring a Node Systems Lead to join our Supercomputing org. This role shapes how frontier inference hardware is configured and managed for customers, owning the software layer across host software, system config, and rack interfaces.

You’ll tune scheduling, memory, networking, and host-to-accelerator communication to maximize performance and reliability. We seek a leader who has moved hardware from bring-up to production, built top teams, and stays hands-on with architecture and code.