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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.\nJob Summary\nFleet Software enables deployments at scale through configuration management, safe software and firmware rollouts, and software recovery, while partnering with other engineering teams to drive product improvements as we ramp production at unprecedented speed. The team works closely with Node Systems, which builds the single-rack software, clients, and tuning recipes that Fleet deploys and manages across many racks.\nThe team also builds the monitoring and analysis systems that connect signals across the rack. Engineers and their agents use this data to investigate failures, spot patterns, and continually improve the performance and reliability of the inference fleet. We're looking for a hands-on engineer who has built infrastructure and owned it through real deployments in the field.\nKey Responsibilities\nBuild the fleet management system that provisions, configures, updates, and recovers Etched-owned hardware across labs and customer deployments\n\nImplement safe software and firmware rollouts, including validation, staged deployment, and handling of partial failures\n\nBuild telemetry and log pipelines that collect rack metrics and logs into a central store, including decisions on storage, retention, and query performance\n\nDevelop monitoring, alerting, and analysis tools that help engineers, their agents, and customers understand fleet behavior and investigate failures\n\nBuild secure, least-privilege access to BMCs and servers across lab, office, and data center networks\n\nGive lab operators simple controls for managed hardware, such as draining and powering down for repair, and rolling out validated versions\n\nPartner with Node Systems to define the interfaces, clients, and validated configurations needed to manage hardware across the fleet\n\nWork with Customer Deployments, Infrastructure, Lab Operations, and Factory Testing, including support for customer environments, local monitoring, and customer telemetry ingress and analysis\n\nAct as first-line triage for issues on Etched-owned systems, find root causes in the management system, and escalate to Infrastructure when needed\n\nTurn lessons from deployments and incidents into engineering priorities, and help decide where to adopt existing tools versus building our own\n\nYou may be a good fit if you have\nExperience building infrastructure software and owning it in production, including deployments, incidents, and the changes that followed\n\nBackground in fleet management, provisioning, configuration management, or observability for compute infrastructure or connected devices\n\nSolid distributed systems and Linux fundamentals. You understand how systems behave under load, during upgrades, and when components fail\n\nHands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration, including running it on bare metal\n\nExperience with Slurm or similar HPC and GPU cluster schedulers and resource management\n\nExperience with network boot and bare metal provisioning (PXE, HTTP boot, iPXE, DHCP/TFTP) to bring hosts up and re-image them at scale\n\nStrong proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, Rust, or C/C++\n\nStrong debugging skills using logs, metrics, and tracing\n\nStrong communication skills and comfort collaborating across hardware, firmware, and software teams\n\nStrong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)\nTelemetry and log pipelines, including storage, retention, and query performance\n\nBare metal servers, accelerator clusters, HPC, robotics, or other hardware fleets\n\nFirmware updates, hardware diagnostics, and automated recovery\n\nBMC, Redfish, or IPMI\n\nSoftware that runs in customer environments as well as internal infrastructure\n\nDocker and container tooling\n\nFamiliarity with kernel, drivers, PCIe, or networking\n\nDesigning test harnesses and failure-injection frameworks\n\nBenefits\nMedical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage\n$500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits\n\nHousing subsidy of $2,500 per month for those living within walking distance of the office\n\nRelocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)\n\nVarious wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more\n\nDaily lunch + dinner in our office\n\nUnlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification\n\nHow we’re different\nEtched 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.\nWe are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. 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