Software Intern at Etched

Software InternLocation: San Jose CA Team: SoftwareAbout EtchedEtched is building the worlds 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.The rolesWe are hiring software interns across four tracks (systems firmware infrastructure and chip simulation/tooling). You do not need experience in all tracks. Strength in one area is sufficient.Our systems software role focuses on the design development and deployment of ML system software required for operating rack-scale systems. Your work will span network performance telemetry creation and processing pipelines and analysis of system-level health and performance. System SW is also responsible for the deployment and provisioning of software frameworks and hardware validation maintaining secure and performant systems for data center scale ML workloads.In our firmware role you will help develop firmware for custom ASICs designed to run large transformer models efficiently. Youll work across the stackfrom low-level drivers hardware interfaces and system initialization code to integration with runtime libraries and model-execution frameworks. Your work will focus on making the hardware operate reliably and at peak performance enabling high-throughput inference and training workloads. Youll collaborate with hardware architecture and software teams to bring up new silicon validate features and support real-world AI applications.Our infrastructure and core software roles drive the development and adoption of next-generation infrastructure tooling enabling Etched ASIC Software and Platform engineers to iterate faster build more reliably and push the boundaries of AI performance. This includes working on our hybrid-cloud high-performance compute (HPC) clusters massively parallel CI executions Infrastructure-as-code scale-out observability platform with LLM integration and building high-quality tools that engineers love using.Our chip simulation and tooling role will co-design develop and test simulations of our custom hardware and tools that engineers use to analyze those systems. You will be working at the cutting edge of hardware innovation closely coordinating with both software and hardware teams across their whole development path.You may be a good fit if you have:Progress towards a Bachelors Masters or PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field.Proficiency in C/C or RustProficiency in Python (for interns interested in systems software)Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithmsStrong understanding of low-level software engineeringStrong understanding of hardware/software co-designExcellent communication and collaboration skillsStrong candidates may also have:Experience with Linux internals kernel development or driver debuggingExperience with hardware diagnostics or interpreting hardware logsExposure to server virtualization or CI/CD pipelinesExperience with Rust or embedded developmentWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification.Program details12-week paid internship (June - August 2026)Generous housing support for those relocatingDaily lunch and dinner in our officeBased at our office in San Jose CADirect mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineersOpportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our timeFor any questions contact .How were differentEtched 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 West San Jose 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.Required Experience:Intern Key Skills Campaigns,Abinitio,AutoCAD 3D,Hardware & Networking,Customer Support,Arabic Employment Type : Full-Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1