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IA Research Engineer Intern

Etched·San Jose·Posted 4 November 2026

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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 We are seeking talented Spring ‘27 and Summer ‘27 IA Research Engineer interns to build the agents that accelerate how Etched produces frontier tokens. You will embed with our kernels team and work alongside our founders on agentic harnesses, tools, and evals that let agents do long-running engineering work people actually rely on. This role is for builders who thrive on ambiguity, have real product sense, and want to own problems end to end. Key responsibilities - Embed with our kernels team to find high-leverage bottlenecks and help turn them into tools engineers use every day. - Build and deploy LLM agents wired into our engineering workflows via tool-calling and MCP. - Help build execution environments where…

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