Etched
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Firmware Engineer

Location
Austin, TX
Job type
Full-time
Level
Mid-level
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • firmware design
  • embedded architectures
  • PCIe
  • DRAM
  • I2C
  • SPI

Also useful

  • data structures
  • algorithms

Stated benefits & perks

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Wellness
  • Meals

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

  • 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.

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.

Read the original posting

From Etched's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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