Senior Manufacturing Software Engineer
Etched · San Jose
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## Senior Manufacturing Software Engineer — Etched ### 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, and we’re redefining the infrastructure layer for the fastest-growing industry in history. ### Role Summary Etched is seeking a **Senior Manufacturing Software Engineer** to build the software platform that powers **manufacturing test** across **new product introduction** and **mass production** for our frontier AI systems. This is a software engineering role embedded within **Manufacturing Test Engineering**, working closely with **hardware, firmware, software, quality, and factory operations**. You’ll build backend services, APIs, data pipelines, release infrastructure, and test station software to enable scalable, automated manufacturing across our global factory network. ### Key Responsibilities - Design and build **backend services, APIs, and data pipelines** supporting manufacturing test and factory operations. - Own software for **manufacturing release management**, deployment, versioning, and **traceability** across production environments. - Develop scalable manufacturing data platforms for **test results, yield analysis, genealogy, and production reporting**. - Build reusable manufacturing **test station applications**, operator interfaces, and automation frameworks. - Integrate manufacturing software with **MES, SFIS, and other factory systems** used by contract manufacturers. - Partner with Manufacturing Test, Hardware, Firmware, Software, Quality, and NPI teams through **production ramp**. - Productionize prototype engineering tools into **reliable, production-ready** manufacturing software. - Travel to domestic and international manufacturing partners to support **factory bring-up** and production deployments. ### Qualifications **Must-have** - **6+ years** building production software, backend services, or data platforms. - Strong **Python** development experience (or equivalent expertise in Go, Java, C#, or TypeScript with **Python proficiency**). - Strong software engineering fundamentals: **testing, CI/CD, version control, code review, debugging, and production monitoring**. - Experience designing scalable **APIs, databases, data models, and distributed systems**. - Experience integrating with external systems and building reliable production services. - Experience building internal applications, dashboards, or operator-facing software. - Comfortable owning technical architecture and building **greenfield** software platforms. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - Willingness to work **onsite** from our **San Jose** office and travel internationally as needed. **Nice-to-have** - Manufacturing software, factory automation, **MES**, **SFIS**, or production operations. - Manufacturing test software, hardware validation, or automated test infrastructure. - Yield analysis, manufacturing analytics, traceability, or genealogy systems. - Firmware release tooling or embedded software development. - AI servers, accelerator systems, networking hardware, storage systems, or other high-performance compute platforms. - Supporting first-generation hardware products through manufacturing scale-up in a fast-paced startup. ### Benefits - Medical, dental
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