Mech / Thermal Intern

San Jose💼 Internship🗓 2026-02-07 → 2026-09-25

Core

Designing mechanical and thermal systems for high-power ASIC racks, focusing on NPI prototyping, manufacturing fixtures, and liquid cooling technologies.

Role type

Mechanical/Thermal Engineering Intern

Builds

Rack-level systems, NPI prototypes, manufacturing fixtures, liquid cooling solutions

Domain

Hardware infrastructure for frontier AI inference systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

mechanical system design, board design cycle knowledge, high-speed interconnects, power delivery, system integration, hands-on hardware project experience

Preferred skills

knowledge of liquid cooling technologies, rack-level system development

Technologies

PCB, high-speed interconnects, liquid cooling

Responsibilities

NPI prototyping, manufacturing fixture development, liquid cooling technology implementation, rack-level system design

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.