Node Systems Lead

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

We’re hiring a Node Systems Lead to join our Supercomputing organization. This team builds the software that enables Etched to deploy inference clusters at gigawatt-scale. This role presents an opportunity to shape how frontier inference hardware is configured and managed for our customers.

We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing methods so frontier models can run with best-in-class throughput, latency, cost, and power efficiency for both prefill and decode workloads. Node Systems owns the software layer of each individual Etched node, from host software and system configuration to the interfaces between rack components. It tunes CPU scheduling, memory, networking, and host-to-accelerator communication so models get every bit of performance and