Core Engineering Intern

San Jose💼 Internship🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building 0-1 production-level solutions for critical gaps in hardware, software, and manufacturing infrastructure for frontier AI systems.

Role type

Core Engineering Intern (Full-stack)

Builds

Internal tools, prototype systems for manufacturing execution, and agentic systems for R&D problems.

Domain

Frontier AI Infrastructure (Hardware/Software/Manufacturing)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Full-stack engineering, Python, TypeScript, product sense, AI tooling proficiency, rapid prototyping, debugging

Preferred skills

Data engineering, DevOps, deploying operational systems in enterprise environments, experience with frontier models, eval-driven mindset, startup experience

Technologies

Python, TypeScript, Transformer architectures

Responsibilities

Identify critical gaps across the company, build solutions from 0 to 1, design and deploy agentic systems, unblock hardware teams, prototype manufacturing execution systems

Seniority

Intern

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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.