Core Engineering Intern

The role

The Core Engineering Intern will work on the special projects team to build solutions from 0 to 1. This includes building internal tools, prototyping systems for manufacturing, or designing and deploying agentic systems.

What you will do

• Identify critical gaps across Etched and build solutions 0 to 1
• Build internal tools to unblock a hardware team
• Prototype systems for manufacturing execution
• Design, evaluate, and deploy agentic systems for R&D problems
• Own a real project scoped to land in production

Required qualifications

• Exceptional full-stack engineering capabilities
• Deep product sense
• Personal accountability
• Knack for building from the ground up
• Track record of solving hard problems across stacks and domains
• Something built that can be walked through in depth
• Comfortable with Python and TypeScript
• AI tooling proficiency
• Design taste
• Bias towards action
• Comfort with incomplete information

Nice to have

• Data engineering, infrastructure or DevOps experience
• Deploying operational systems in enterprise environments
• Experience wielding frontier models on frontier problems
• An eval-driven mindset
• High agency and comfort with ambiguity
• Prior startup experience, especially during hyper growth

Benefits

• Paid internship
• Generous housing support for those relocating
• Daily lunch and dinner in our office
• Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers

About the company

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