Node Systems

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

We’re hiring a Node Systems Lead to join our Supercomputing organization. This team builds the software that enables Etched to deploy inference clusters at gigawatt-scale. This role presents an opportunity to shape how frontier inference hardware is configured and managed for our customers.

We co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing methods so frontier models can run with best-in-class throughput, latency, cost, and power efficiency for both prefill and decode workloads. Node Systems owns the software layer of each individual Etched node, from host software and system configuration to the interfaces between rack components. It tunes CPU scheduling, memory, networking, and host-to-accelerator communication so models get every bit of performance and reliability our hardware can deliver, then turns those gains into tested software and configurations that ship in every system.

We’re looking for a leader who can set the technical direction and dive deep into difficult systems problems. Someone who has taken hardware from early bring up into production, can build the best team in the industry, and wants to stay close to architecture and code. The team’s work is central in enabling Etched to deploy inference clusters at massive scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Node Systems team, setting priorities and giving engineers clear ownership.

• Set the technical direction for host software, system configuration and rack component interfaces.

• Guide the team’s performance work across CPU scheduling, memory, networking and host-to-accelerator communication.

• Ensure system optimizations become tested, maintainable software and configurations ready for deployment.

• Lead the development of rack simulation and diagnostic capabilities that support platform development and debugging.

• Partner with inference software, firmware, and hardware teams to architect our system design for current and next-gen products

• Align with Fleet Software on the configurations and interfaces needed to manage and monitor deployed systems at the cluster-level

• Work with manufacturing and test engineering to establish the software baseline and test coverage needed to ship reliable systems.