Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Hardware)

Etched·San Jose·Posted 15 October 2026

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JOB SUMMARY Our Internal Acceleration team’s mandate is to build agents to accelerate the production of frontier tokens. You’ll work directly with our founders and embed with our hardware team to build new agentic harnesses and operating systems to transform the way hardware is built in an AI native world. Your work will vary widely, and your success is measured by how much faster Etched moves, not by the lines of code you write. This role is for engineers who thrive on ambiguity, have real product sense, and want to own problems end to end. It’s a whiteboard for future founders. The problems we solve are time-sensitive and business-critical. This role will not be a 9-5, and the ideal candidate is excited about that. YOU MAY BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU - Have at least 1-5+ years of experience building and shipping software end to end, ideally at a fast-moving startup - Have strong full-stack skills. We care less about whether you write every line yourself and more about whether what you ship works - Have built LLM agents or AI tooling that real users depend on, which means more than calling an API: context engineering, tool integration, evals, and failure analysis - Use AI…

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