High-Speed Peripheral Firmware Lead

Etched·San Jose·Posted 12 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 Lead the development of firmware that brings the high-speed peripherals of our custom AI accelerator to life. You and the team will own the low-level firmware responsible for controlling, configuring, and monitoring critical hardware interfaces, including PCIe, HBM, Ethernet, and other peripherals within our ASIC. You'll work directly with ASIC architects and RTL engineers from early hardware design through pre-silicon development, first-silicon bring-up, and production. The team is responsible for making these interfaces work reliably and at their full performance potential, while helping shape the hardware/software architecture of future silicon generations. This is a deeply hands-on technical leadership role for someone…

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