Applied AI Engineer, Kernel Performance

What this role involves

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence and seeks an Applied AI Engineer to build AI systems that autonomously turn new model architectures into optimized kernels for their hardware. The role involves owning the optimization system, building agents, designing evals, and shipping model-generated improvements to production.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• low-level code
• kernel engineering
• llm-based agents
• ai tooling
• context engineering
• tool integration
• orchestration
• failure analysis
• accelerator performance
• memory hierarchy
• data movement
• parallelism
• synchronization
• low-precision computation

Requirements

• Remote policy: onsite

From the employer’s posting

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 f…