MTS - Agent Research
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
As a research lead, you will set the research direction for this effort and spearhead the development of self-improving agents that reliably complete difficult, long-running engineering tasks. At Etched, this loop compounds: better agents help us build and optimize our systems faster, better systems expand our capacity to run more experiments, generating feedback and training data that further improve agent capabilities. Your job is to make this loop work in practice.
This requires strong research judgment. Where will better memory, context, or tooling unlock new capabilities? Which tasks benefit from structured workflows, and which require more open-ended autonomy? When do agent limitations call for changes to the harness, and when do they require custom models trained with supervised fine-tunin
