Electrical Engineer, Hardware Systems

San Jose💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$150,000🗓 2026-03-17 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead schematic design and bring-up of mezzanine cards and base boards for AI accelerator systems, collaborating with signal integrity, PCB, and mechanical engineering to solve system-level design problems.

Role type

Senior IC hardware systems engineer (datacenter/AI infrastructure)

Builds

High-throughput AI inference servers and accelerator racks

Domain

Datacenter hardware / AI infrastructure / High-performance computing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Schematic design, 100G Ethernet, PCIe Gen5, I2C, SPI, UART, ODM/OEM collaboration, test plan definition, high-power server architecture (>10 kW)

Preferred skills

Modern AI system architecture knowledge, silicon co-design experience

Technologies

PCIe Gen5, 100G Ethernet, I2C, SPI, UART

Responsibilities

Lead schematic design of mezzanine and base boards, collaborate on system-level design with cross-functional teams, manage PCBA documentation and BOMs, define test plans and equipment, bring up system boards

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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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.