Mech / Thermal Intern

Delos; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 27,552 - 34,440; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12-week paid internship

Generous housing support

Daily lunch and dinner in office

Direct mentorship from industry leaders

Job summary

Delos is offering a paid mechanical/thermal engineering internship based in San Jose, CA, for the summer of 2026. Interns will engage in NPI prototyping and manufacturing fixture development while focusing on liquid cooling technologies and rack-level system development.

The ideal candidates are pursuing a degree in Mechanical or Computer Engineering, and will gain direct mentorship from industry leaders while working on innovative engineering projects.

Qualifications

• Progress towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Experience building real mechanical systems or projects.
• Knowledge of board design, high-speed interconnects, and system integration.

Responsibilities

• Work on NPI prototyping and manufacturing fixture development.
• Develop liquid cooling technologies and rack-level systems.
• Collaborate across mechanical and electrical engineering fields.

Skills

Mechanical Engineering

Hands-on project experience

Board design knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field

Job description

Location

San Jose

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Platform

About Etched

Etched is building the world’s first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents. 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 mechanical/thermal engineering interns will work within the mechanical and thermal engineering organization, with a strong focus on NPI prototyping, manufacturing fixture development, liquid cooling technologies and rack-level system development. Our Platform Team is building the full-stack system that supports Etched Silicon from PCB to Rack. We are looking for interns to work across all aspects of mechanical and electrical engineering to design the future of high power ASIC systems.

You may be a good fit if you have

• Progress towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Experience building real mechanical systems, boards, or other hands‑on projects.
• Knowledge of board design cycle, high-speed interconnects, power delivery, and system integration.

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

Program details:

• 12-week paid internship (June - August 2026)
• 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 think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models, and the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model-specific hardware. Larger and larger training runs encourage companies to consolidate around fewer model architectures, which creates a market for single-model ASICs.

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 as needed.