Firmware Intern

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

• Develop firmware for chips designed to run large AI models efficiently
• Work across the stack from low-level drivers and hardware interfaces to system initialization code
• Integrate firmware with runtime libraries and model-execution frameworks
• Collaborate with hardware, architecture, and software teams to bring up new silicon and validate features
• Support high-throughput inference and training workloads

Requirements

• Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Proficiency in C/C++ or Rust
• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of low-level software engineering
• Strong understanding of hardware/software co-design

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Linux internals, kernel development, or driver debugging
• Experience with hardware diagnostics or interpreting hardware logs
• Exposure to server virtualization or CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Rust or embedded development

Benefits

• 12-week paid internship
• Generous housing support for those relocating
• Daily lunch and dinner in our office
• Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers