Developer Experience Engineer
- Salary
- $150K - $300K
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · San Jose
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 6 November 2026.
About the role
Etched's standard text
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 are looking for a Developer Experience Engineer to enhance developer productivity, automation, and infrastructure across our hardware and software teams. You will work at the intersection of DevOps, software engineering, and high-performance computing (HPC), building systems that accelerate chip design, simulation, and AI model deployment in a cloud and on-prem hybrid environment.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automation tools to streamline development, testing, and deployment workflows.
- Optimize and manage Slurm-based job scheduling for AI workloads, simulation, and chip design workflows.
- Build observability solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry for monitoring pipelines, infrastructure, and compute clusters.
- Manage and optimize containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes to enhance scalability and reproducibility.
- Enhance build, test, and deployment pipelines with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, or Bazel.
- Develop caching and artifact management systems to reduce build times and improve dependency resolution.
- Integrate and manage cloud resources (AWS, GCP) for scaling compute, storage, and hybrid workloads.
- Support security and compliance efforts including secrets management and access control.
- Document and share best practices for efficient developer tooling and workflows.
You may be a good fit if you have
- Strong Python skills for automation, scripting, and infrastructure development.
- Experience with Slurm job scheduling in an HPC or hybrid environment.
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
- Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes, including Helm charts and cluster management.
- Proficiency in modern CI/CD pipeline management with tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Buildkite.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Ansible.
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, compute, and storage optimization on AWS or GCP.
Strong candidates may also have experience with
- Data pipelining for AI/ML workflows using Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster.
- Build system expertise with Bazel, CMake, or distributed build systems.
- Secrets management tools such as Vault, SOPS, AWS Secrets Manager, or GCP Secret Manager.
- AI/ML model training workflows and monitoring GPU-accelerated workloads.
- Exposure to FPGA or ASIC development environments and workflows.
Benefits
- Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with generous premium coverage
- Housing subsidy of $2,500/month for those living within walking distance of the office
- Daily lunch and dinner in our office
- Relocation support for those moving to West San Jose
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
How we’re different
Etched's standard text
Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.
We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.
What this role asks for
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
82% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Etched's standard text, folded away below.
Compared with Etched's other open jobs.
The team: Software HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 59 open in Software. 28 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in November: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Embedded Systems (27 of 59), Linux (27 of 59), Python (24 of 59), C++ (21 of 59), LLM (20 of 59), Rust (17 of 59), C (15 of 59)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Site Reliability Engineer - Fleet Command & Control posted Nov 4
- Site Reliability Engineer - Fleet Command & Control posted Nov 4
- IA Research Engineer Intern posted Nov 4
- IA Research Engineer Intern posted Nov 4
- Forward Deployed Systems Engineer posted Oct 28
- Forward Deployed Systems Engineer posted Oct 28
- Infrastructure Engineer, Factory Acceleration posted Oct 28
- Infrastructure Engineer, Factory Acceleration posted Oct 28
- Design Engineer, Factory Acceleration posted Oct 27
- Design Engineer, Factory Acceleration posted Oct 27
- Research Engineer, RL Frontiers posted Oct 21
- Research Engineer, RL Frontiers posted Oct 21
- Chip Simulation Software Engineer posted Oct 19
- Chip Simulation Software Engineer posted Oct 19
- Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Production) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Production) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Hardware) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Hardware) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (ASIC) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (ASIC) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Production) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Production) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Hardware) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Hardware) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Engineer (ASIC) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Engineer (ASIC) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Kernels) posted Oct 15
- Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Kernels) posted Oct 15
- Network Security Engineer posted Jun 25
- Network Security Engineer posted Jun 25
- Data Center Engineer posted Jun 25
- Data Center Engineer posted Jun 25
- Emulation Engineer, Hardware Prototyping (HAPS) posted Jun 1
- Emulation Engineer, Hardware Prototyping (HAPS) posted Jun 1
- Firmware Engineer posted May 19
- Firmware Engineer posted May 19
- Firmware Engineer posted May 12
- Firmware Engineer posted May 12
- Developer Experience Engineer posted Feb 19
- Firmware Intern posted Feb 7
- Firmware Intern posted Feb 7
- Infrastructure Software Engineer posted Jan 20
- Infrastructure Software Engineer posted Jan 20
- Kernel Driver Software Engineer posted Jan 14
- Kernel Driver Software Engineer posted Jan 14
- Firmware Engineer (Taiwan) posted Oct 29
- Firmware Engineer (Taiwan) posted Oct 29
- Supercomputing Software Engineer (Taiwan) posted Oct 29
- Supercomputing Software Engineer (Taiwan) posted Oct 29
- Supercomputing Test Software Engineer (Taiwan) posted Oct 29
- Supercomputing Test Software Engineer (Taiwan) posted Oct 29
- Supercomputing Engineer, Fleet Software posted Jun 18
- Supercomputing Engineer, Fleet Software posted Jun 18
- Emulation Software Engineer posted Jan 31
- Inference Software Engineer posted Jan 16
- Senior Firmware Engineer posted Dec 4
- Firmware Engineer posted Dec 4
- Machine Learning Research Engineer posted Nov 13
From the team and dates on Etched's own job board.
Other openings for this role
2 open postings for this role in San Jose, first posted 2 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 6 November 2026 – open (this posting)
- 2 October 2026 – open
Salary context
6 other open postings titled Developer Experience Engineer state a salary: median USD 137,500 to USD 197,000 a year.
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