Supercomputing Intern

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

Our supercomputing role focuses on the design, development, and deployment of ML system software required for operating rack-scale systems. Your work will span network performance, telemetry creation and processing pipelines, and analysis of system-level health and performance. Supercomputing is also responsible for the deployment and provisioning of software frameworks and hardware validation, maintaining secure and performant systems for data center scale ML workloads. We are looking for Summer '26, Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

You may be a good fit if you have

Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Proficiency in C/C++ or Rust

Proficiency in Python

Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms

Strong understanding of low-level software engineering

Strong understanding of hardware/software co-design

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Strong candidates may also have (Nice to have qualifications)

Experience with Linux internals, kernel development, or driver debugging

Experience with hardware diagnostics or interpreting hardware logs

Exposure to server virtualization or CI/CD pipelines

Experience with Rust or embedded development

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification.

Program details

12-week paid internship

Generous housing support for those relocating

Daily lunch and dinner in our office

Based at our office in San Jose, CA

Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers

Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time

For any questions, contact [email protected]

How we’re different

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 are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), 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 and work across disciplines as needed.