Etched

Firmware Engineer

Austin
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · Austin

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 6 November 2026.

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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

  • Co-Develop cutting-edge software optimized across hardware and software driving the full potential of very large AI models.
  • Solve challenging problems across the full stack, from low-level drivers and APIs to high-level applications and frameworks.
  • Contribute to the development of AI solutions that will revolutionize industries like natural language processing, chain of reasoning automation, generative media.

You may be a good fit if you have

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
  • Experience developing and testing software on launching products.
  • Experience with firmware design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with embedded architectures, IO technologies (I2C, SPI, PCIe, DRAM etc.), as well as concepts like scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency.

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

  • Master’s degree Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Experience resolving customer-related issues.
  • Experience solving ambiguous problems.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
  • Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
  • Daily lunch + dinner in our office
  • 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 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.

This role is based in our Austin office, with regular time spent working alongside the team in San Jose. During the first quarter, expect to spend approximately two weeks per month at our San Jose headquarters to ramp quickly. After that, this shifts to roughly one week per month for ongoing collaboration.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

NLP

Rare in Etched's other 183 open postings.

Standard for embedded / hardware roles

Embedded Systems

Common in embedded / hardware postings at any company.

68% 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

From the team and dates on Etched's own job board.

Other openings for this role

2 open postings for this role in Austin, first posted 2 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.

Salary context

16 other open postings titled Firmware Engineer state a salary: median USD 155,000 to USD 195,500 a year.

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