Kernel Driver Software Engineer

Etched·San Jose·Posted 14 January 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. Key Responsibilities - Design, develop, and maintain kernel-mode drivers ensuring high reliability, informative debug, and optimal performance. - Analyze and optimize driver performance for demanding AI workloads, focusing on minimizing latency and maximizing throughput. - Collaborate closely with hardware engineers throughout the ASIC design process.. - Implement driver support for device virtualization technologies, including SR-IOV, VFIO, and para-virtualization. - Implement efficient memory management strategies considering kernel memory mapping, page tables configuration, NUMA awareness for device data caching, and IOMMU configuration. - Build kernel drivers fundamentally designed to support and maintain security across…

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