Infrastructure Intern

About this role

Etched is seeking infrastructure interns to help develop tooling and systems for AI inference hardware. You'll work on hybrid-cloud HPC clusters, CI/CD infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-Code, and observability platforms alongside world-class engineers in San Jose.

What you'll do

• Develop and optimize next-generation infrastructure tooling for ASIC and software engineers
• Work on hybrid-cloud HPC cluster development and high-performance compute systems
• Build massively parallel CI/CD execution pipelines
• Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code implementations
• Support scale-out observability platform development with LLM integration
• Debug and optimize hardware/software integration issues

What they're looking for

• C/C++ or Rust programming
• Python (for systems software)
• Data structures and algorithms
• Low-level software engineering
• Hardware/software co-design
• Linux internals or kernel development (preferred)
• CI/CD pipeline experience (preferred)
• Server virtualization knowledge (preferred)

Benefits

• 12-week paid internship program
• Generous housing support for relocating interns
• Daily lunch and dinner provided at office
• Direct mentorship from industry leaders
• Work on frontier AI inference infrastructure
• Fully in-person team in San Jose with collaborative engineering culture

Likely interview questions

• Walk us through your experience with C/C++ or Rust. Can you describe a project where you used low-level systems programming and what challenges you faced?
• Tell us about your understanding of hardware/software co-design. How have you seen hardware constraints influence software decisions in a project?