Test Architect, Factory Acceleration

The role

This person will own the end-to-end test strategy and systems for AI systems from silicon bring-up through full racks. You will design test frameworks, lead technical triage of failures, and partner with manufacturing partners to bring strategies into production.

What you will do

• Define and own the overall test strategy and coverage map across silicon, firmware, board, server, and rack levels.
• Design the test systems and frameworks that carry out the strategy.
• Review test plans from domain teams to find coverage gaps and balance coverage against test time.
• Build regression gating for firmware, drivers, and test packages.
• Define pass/fail criteria, retest policies, and diagnostics.
• Lead technical triage of failures across hardware, firmware, and software.
• Turn repeated failures into better tests, upstream screening, and diagnostics.
• Partner with Test Infrastructure and manufacturing partners to bring the strategy into production.

Required qualifications

• Owned the test strategy or test systems for at least one hardware product from bring-up into production.
• Hands-on experience across levels of test: low-level firmware, board-level, and system-level testing.
• Experience designing regression gating or CI for hardware and firmware.
• Strong debugging skills across hardware, firmware, and software, working from logs and lab tools.
• Clear communication across teams, and comfort making coverage and risk tradeoffs explicit.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Willingness to work onsite in San Jose and travel internationally to manufacturing partners.

Nice to have

• 8+ years in test engineering, test architecture, system validation, or test automation for hardware products.
• Server, rack, GPU, or accelerator systems, including post-silicon bring-up and rack-level (L10/L11) integration testing.
• BMC, BIOS, PCIe, high-speed interconnects, power and thermal validation.
• Hardware-in-the-loop test systems.
• Factory test, test stations, or working with contract manufacturers and ODMs.
• Yield analysis and data-driven test optimization.
• Bringing first-generation hardware into production at a fast-paced startup.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
• $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
• Housing subsidy of $2,500 per month for those living within walking distance of the office
• Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
• Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
• Daily lunch and dinner in our office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

About the company

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence by co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing. The company is a fully in-person team in San Jose.