Mechanical / Thermal Intern

Red Dog Capital, LLC; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing support

Lunch and dinner in office

Mentorship from industry leaders

Job summary

Etched is seeking mechanical/thermal engineering interns to join the Platform Team, working on NPI prototyping, fixture development, and liquid cooling for high power ASIC systems. Internships span Summer ’26, Fall ’26, Spring ’27, and Summer ’27, with mentors from industry leaders.

Based in San Jose, CA, the program provides 12 weeks of paid work, housing support for relocating interns, and daily meals in the office, fostering hands-on experience across hardware and software interfaces.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Assist in NPI prototyping, fixture development, and liquid cooling technologies.
• Contribute to rack-level system development across mechanical and electrical engineering domains.

Skills

Hands-on projects

Mechanical systems

High-speed interconnects

Power delivery

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical Engineering or Computer 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 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 seeking interns to work across all aspects of mechanical and electrical engineering to design the future of high power ASIC systems. 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 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
• 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. 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.