Forward Deployed Systems Engineer

Etched·San Jose·Posted 28 October 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 As a Forward Deployed Systems Engineer (Datacenter), you will work hands-on in large-scale datacenter environments to bring up, validate, and debug Etched accelerator-based systems. You’ll own customer deployment execution end-to-end, solve complex hardware/software/networking issues under real-world constraints, and build the tooling and processes that make deployments scalable and repeatable. Key Responsibilities Technical problem solving & diagnostics - Drive deployments with customers and internal teams to identify risks and establish success criteria - Debug and resolve system-level issues across hardware, firmware, drivers, Linux OS, and networking stacks - Perform root-cause analysis on field issues and partner…

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