Infrastructure Engineer, Factory Acceleration
Etched · San Jose
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## About Etched Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence—co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across prefill and decode workloads. Their first products focus heavily on inference, and they’re redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest-growing industry in history. ## Job Summary Etched is seeking a **Test Infrastructure Engineer** to build and run the infrastructure behind **factory testing of AI systems**, from **new product introduction through mass production**. You’ll join a **new, small central team** responsible for making factory testing **reliable, repeatable, and scalable**. A factory test floor is like a small datacenter—**hundreds of boards, servers, and racks** running test software and reporting results. You will own the layer that: - Provisions and runs test stations - Moves test results and logs into a **single source of truth** - Rolls out new test software **safely across factories** You’ll work closely with **hardware, firmware, software, production**, and **contract manufacturing partners**. ## Key Responsibilities - Build and operate the **test execution platform** that runs factory tests across stations, servers, and racks. - Provision and manage the **Linux fleet** on the factory floor (OS imaging/network boot, configuration management, lifecycle automation). - Design and maintain the **networking** test stations and racks depend on (with factory partners). - Build **data pipelines** to capture every test run, its logs, and hardware genealogy into a central view of test history, yield, throughput, and unit history. - Own **versioned release** of factory test packages, including **canary** and **rollback**. - Build **monitoring and alerting** across factory infrastructure; lead debugging when infrastructure blocks production. - Integrate with contract manufacturers’ factory systems (**MES/SFIS**) and internal data platforms. - Automate repetitive debug work (evidence gathering, grouping failure signatures) and help move toward **AI-assisted failure triage**. ## Must-Have Qualifications - **3+ years** building and operating production infrastructure. - Strong **Linux** administration skills (boot process, package management, systemd, storage, command-line debugging). - Solid networking fundamentals (**TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPNs**). - Experience with **distributed systems** (services across many machines that tolerate failures). - Strong coding skills in **Python, C++, or Rust** (building real tools/services). - Experience with **automation/config management** (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) and **CI/CD**. - Experience with **monitoring/observability** (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and production debugging. - Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or equivalent practical experience. - Willingness to work **onsite in San Jose or Taiwan** and travel to manufacturing partners as needed. ## Nice-to-Have Qualifications - Bare-metal server fleets, lab/datacenter automation, or HPC clusters (e.g., PXE, Slurm). - Server management interfaces (**BMC, IPMI, Redfish**). - Manufacturing test infrastructure / test automation platforms / factory software (**MES, SFIS**). - Data pipelines for test results, yield analysis, or hardware genealogy. - AI servers, GPU/accelerator systems, or other high-performance compute platforms. - Experience working with contract manufacturers; **Mandarin** is a plus for Taiwan-based candidates. - Bringing first-generation
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