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How Etched hires
Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
162 days
Ghost roles
10%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Etched scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 73 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 10% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 162 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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Etched Raises $700 Million At $21 Billion Valuation As Customer Contracts Top $1 Billion And Jane Street Deploys First Rack
Etched has raised $700 million in new funding at a $21 billion valuation as the AI semiconductor company moves from chip development into customer deployments, with Jane Street becoming its first customer and more than $1 billion of contracts already secu
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Etched's valuation doubles to $21B in a month
Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.
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Etched raises $300M at a $10.3B Valuation to Scale Production of Frontier Scale Inference Hardware
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Etched, the company building frontier inference clusters, today announced $300M in new finan...
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AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Etched over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
123
Postings analysed
57
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python70%
C++26%
Rust25%
SystemVerilog18%
Frameworks & libraries
UVM12%
CUDA4%
PyTorch4%
PyTorch C++4%
Cloud & platforms
Linux26%
AWS11%
GCP11%
Kubernetes9%
AI & ML
LLM25%
BERT2%
ChatGPT2%
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Full Etched tech stack
123 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$275k
Typical range
$30k – $350k
Open positions
46
31
Jobs
Junior
3.2%
Middle
6.5%
Senior
64.5%
Staff
22.6%
Architect
3.2%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $275k | $275k |
| Middle | 2 | $200k | $200k |
| Senior | 20 | $255k | $30k – $300k |
| Staff | 7 | $275k | $250k – $350k |
| Architect | 1 | $265k | $265k |
Highest paying role
SMT Line Lead
$350k
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By role, level and city, against the market · 46 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
75
8 opened / 6 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
112 days
faster than 13% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
19% ▲
Industrial Engineering
19% ▼
AI/ML
8% ▼
Administrative
8%
HR
8% ▲
Early Careers
8%
Activity Timeline
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Sep 2026
Added Multimodal AI to stack
Sep 2026
Added Chain-of-Thought to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Taoyuan
Sep 2026
Added vLLM to stack
Sep 2026
Added SGLang to stack
Sep 2026
Added X (Twitter) to stack
Sep 2026
Added arXiv to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Added Multi-Agent Systems to stack
Sep 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Sep 2026
Added SFT to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Jose
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San Jose
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HQ
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59 open roles 19 posted in 90 days 54% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $259k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Early Careers, Industrial Engineering
San Jose, CA 95117
Taipei
Taiwan
Engineering / R&D
7 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 86% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Backend, DevOps
Austin
United States
Regional office
5 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 50-200 est. staff $285k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering
Taoyuan
Taiwan
Plant / site
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Management
Jobs
≈ $23k – $59k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Taipei
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≈ $39k – $79k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Taipei
Chain-of-Thought
Chips/EDA
Cadence Allegro
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≈ $114k – $320k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
Verilog
SystemVerilog
LLM
Machine Learning
Chips/EDA
UVM
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≈ $39k – $81k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Taipei
Cadence Allegro
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$150k – $275k per year • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
LLM
DevOps
HPC
Chips/EDA
Ansys HFSS
Cadence Sigrity
Keysight ADS
Ansys SIwave
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$175k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
Go
Java
TypeScript
C#
CI/CD
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$200k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • San Jose
Python
LLM
Chips/EDA
Cadence Innovus
Synopsys PrimeTime
Synopsys Fusion Compiler
Cadence Tempus
Cadence Pegasus
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$200k – $300k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Jose
Python
LLM
Chips/EDA
Synopsys PrimeTime
Synopsys Fusion Compiler
Siemens Calibre
Cadence Pegasus
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$175k – $275k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Jose
GCP
Azure
AWS
eBPF
HPC
Linux
VPN
BGP
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
SIEM
DLP
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$130k – $210k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Jose
Python
Ansible
Platform Engineering
HPC
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$150k – $250k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
Go
Rust
Bash
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
AWS
IAM
Windows
VPN
Cybersecurity
Okta
Zero Trust
Threat Modeling
SIEM
Management
Google Workspace
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$150k – $275k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Jose
Python
Rust
C++
SystemVerilog
TCL Scripting
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
RLHF
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Ray
DPO
SFT
Post-training
Context Engineering
Multi-Agent Systems
Tool Use
DevOps
SLURM
CI/CD
Docker
Chips/EDA
UVM
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