About Etched

Etched is building the world’s first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents. 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

The facilities electrical engineer will own the design, planning, delivery and operations of technical infrastructure for Etched facilities. This position will be responsible for bridging the gap from internal stakeholder teams developing products to facilitate high performance operational infrastructure in place to facilitate test and development from chip to data center. The right candidate brings deep design, commissioning, project management and operational experience from a mission-critical environment — data center, biotech/pharma, or high-tech fab/manufacturing — and is comfortable owning systems end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct site assessments against internal standards and requirements for lab and rack test environments.

• Develop internal schematic designs as well as review vendor infrastructure designs with risk analysis and performance characterization

• Perform design and equipment submittal reviews for new builds and retrofit projects

• Troubleshoot and Root Cause Analysis to determine system and equipment issues. Develop project designs and manage vendor through remediation

• Support operational issues with training, ops and procedure reviews, and event support to resolution

• Own the design and project implementation for new facilities and retrofit projects

• Interface with internal and external stakeholders to ensure designs facilitate performance and availability for product development teams

• Work on multiple project in multiple geographic regions

• Conduct ongoing system performance reviews and trend analysis to identify risks before they become failures

• Develop, maintain, and execute SOPs and MOPs for all critical systems

• Supervise and coordinate third-party contractors performing servicing and preventive maintenance

• Author and manage work orders as needed; maintain spare parts and consumables inventory

• Support issue and risk remediation — both hands-on repair and scoped project coordination

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering

• 5+ years of industrial or commercial engineering experience in mission critical facilities

• Experience researching new designs, technologies and construction methods

• Demonstrated experience with the design, construction, operation or maintenance of mission critical facilities (data center or high tech lab preferred)

• Knowledge of Local and Regional Building Codes

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

• Professional Engineer License

• Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering

• Commissioning Certification (Cx or BCxP equivalent)

• Project Management Certification (PMI)

• Experience with building controls / BAS / EPMS platforms; Tridium/Niagara a strong plus

• Vendor or project management experience in a facilities design and operations context

• Reliability testing or commissioning experience

• Plant or facility management exposure

• NFPA 70E trained and current

• Target Backgrounds: Strong candidates may come from roles such as: Data Center Facilities Engineer, Critical Facilities Engineer, Electrical Commissioning Engineer, Chief Engineer, Plant Engineer, or Lab Operations Electrical Engineer in environments such as:

  • Data centers / colocation facilities

  • Biotech / pharmaceutical / life sciences facilities

  • Semiconductor or high-tech manufacturing / fab

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage

  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits

• Housing subsidy of $2k 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

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models, and the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model-specific hardware. Larger and larger training runs encourage companies to consolidate around fewer model architectures, which creates a market for single-model ASICs.

We are a fully in-person team in San Jose and Taipei, 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 as needed.