Applied AI Engineer - Hardware
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
Designing frontier AI hardware means solving electrical and mechanical problems together: schematics and board layouts, power delivery and signal integrity, packaging and cooling, manufacturing and assembly. Every decision changes the constraints on the next. Future breakthroughs will come from AI systems that can reason across these domains, operate engineering tools, run thousands of experiments, and learn which designs work in the physical world.
You will build those systems. Your mandate is to build agents that take electrical and mechanical designs from requirements through verified, manufacturable outputs. These agents should create and modify CAD models, design schematics and PCB layouts, run simulations, diagnose failures, and iterate with our engineers, pushing the limits of how much of
