Electrical Infrastructure Engineer

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

Own the electrical infrastructure that enables Etched to develop, test, and scale hardware from chip to rack to data center. As an individual contributor on the Capital Projects and Facilities Engineering team, you will translate evolving product requirements into practical electrical systems and drive projects from early planning and design through construction, commissioning, and operational handoff.

You will help establish our electrical standards, practice safe operations, build internal design capability, and accelerate decisions across new facilities and retrofits. You will serve as the electrical technical owner for assigned projects, develop internal concepts and preliminary designs, and direct technical work with consultants, contractors, and equipment vendors. External engineers of record will support detailed design and permitting where required.

We value strong fundamentals, practical judgment, and demonstrated ownership. Your experience may come from consulting, contracting, electrical trades, commissioning, facilities operations, military technical training, or another path. You should be comfortable with high velocity projects, working in the field, challenging assumptions, and turning incomplete or changing requirements into safe, executable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate stakeholder needs into electrical load forecasts, capacity plans, design criteria, and distribution concepts for bench, lab, rack test, and data center environments.

• Assess prospective sites and identify infrastructure constraints and expansion options.

• Develop single-line diagrams, load calculations, equipment requirements, and preliminary layouts. Evaluate distribution architectures and equipment including transformers, switchgear, UPS, generators, ATS, panelboards, busway, and rack power distribution.

• Lead technical reviews of consultant designs, equipment submittals, and field installations. Scope and review short-circuit, protection coordination, arc-flash, and power-quality studies with qualified design partners; resolve constructability, maintainability, and system integration issues.

• Own assigned electrical projects through scope definition, equipment selection, procurement support, construction coordination, commissioning, and handoff. Projects range from swapping receptacles to designing our pod. Develop BOM and specs, evaluate technical proposals, track cost and schedule impacts, and hold vendors accountable for deliverables.