Firmware Engineer

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Co-develop cutting-edge software optimized across hardware and software to drive 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, and generative media

Requirements

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages including generous equity packages
• Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification