MTS - Firmware

US Health Partners, LLC; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Lunch provided daily

Unlimited compute budget

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence in Austin. The role focuses on co-developing software optimized across hardware, tackling low-level drivers through high-level applications, and contributing to AI solutions that transform NLP, reasoning, and generative media.

Based in Austin with regular collaboration with San Jose, the team values firmware expertise, embedded architectures, and scalable, fault-tolerant systems. The office culture emphasizes hands-on engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
• Experience developing and testing software on launching products.
• Experience with firmware design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with embedded architectures, IO technologies (I2C, SPI, PCIe, DRAM etc.), as well as concepts like scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency.

Responsibilities

• Co-Develop cutting-edge software optimized across hardware and software driving the full potential of very large AI models.
• Solve challenging problems across the full stack, from low-level drivers and APIs to high-level applications and frameworks.
• Contribute to the development of AI solutions that will revolutionize industries like natural language processing, chain of reasoning automation, generative media.

Skills

Software development

Data structures & algorithms

Firmware design

Embedded architectures

I2C

SPI

PCIe

DRAM

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Firmware toolchains

Embedded development tools

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

• Co-Develop cutting-edge software optimized across hardware and software driving the full potential of very large AI models.
• Solve challenging problems across the full stack, from low-level drivers and APIs to high-level applications and frameworks.
• Contribute to the development of AI solutions that will revolutionize industries like natural language processing, chain of reasoning automation, generative media.

You may be a good fit if you have

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
• Experience developing and testing software on launching products.
• Experience with firmware design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with embedded architectures, IO technologies (I2C, SPI, PCIe, DRAM etc.), as well as concepts like scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency.

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

• Master’s degree Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience resolving customer-related issues.
• Experience solving ambiguous problems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
• Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
• Daily lunch + dinner in our office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

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 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.

This role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration.