--- title: ": Forward Deployed Systems Engineer at Etched" description: 'Etched is hiring for the : Forward Deployed Systems Engineer role in San Jose, CA. Pays $150K–$240K per year. See the full description and apply.' type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/forward-deployed-systems-engineer-at-etched-01a183eb-9691-75d5-926b-29c9e70fb123 date: 2026-11-15T01:26:44Z og_description: 'Join Etched as : Forward Deployed Systems Engineer in San Jose, CA. Pays $150K–$240K per year. Full-time, on-site role.' og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/5o228i.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | Etched | | **Location** | San Jose, CA | | **Salary** | $150K/yr - $240K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Oct 28, 2026 | ## Is this job real? **Ghost job check:** A · Low risk. Probably a real opening. ## Visa sponsorship - **H-1B:** Etched sponsors H-1B visas. It filed 27 H-1B petitions (FY2026 Q1 – FY2026 Q4). - **E-Verify:** No E-Verify enrollment on record for Etched. ## Pay for similar jobs Most similar jobs pay $185,000 – $272,000 a year (median $208,000). ## Description **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** As a **Forward Deployed Systems Engineer (Datacenter)**, you will work hands-on in large-scale datacenter environments to bring up, validate, and debug Etched accelerator-based systems. You’ll own customer deployment execution end-to-end, solve complex hardware/software/networking issues under real-world constraints, and build the tooling and processes that make deployments scalable and repeatable. **Key Responsibilities** **Technical problem solving & diagnostics** - Drive deployments with customers and internal teams to identify risks and establish success criteria - Debug and resolve system-level issues across hardware, firmware, drivers, Linux OS, and networking stacks - Perform root-cause analysis on field issues and partner with internal engineering teams to reproduce issues and ship fixes - Build and maintain diagnostics, monitoring/telemetry, and dashboards to improve visibility into system health **Firmware & system updates** - Coordinate firmware updates, hotfixes, and configuration changes to improve reliability and unblock customer deployments - Manage update rollouts with minimal downtime and clear communication to customers and internal teams **Documentation & knowledge management** - Create and maintain deployment runbooks, escalation playbooks, known-issues documentation, and field service guides - Capture structured learnings from deployments and convert them into repeatable processes **Cross-functional collaboration** - Partner with firmware/software/hardware engineering teams to drive reliability improvements - Collaborate with Deployment, RMA, Sustaining Engineering, and Support teams to ensure smooth handoffs and long-term supportability **Process improvement & scaling** - Improve deployment workflows, metrics, and best practices to reduce deployment risk, time, and cost - Identify patterns across deployments and drive process/tooling improvements that scale across customers **You may be a good fit if you have** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) - Experience supporting datacenter customers in systems, networking, AI infrastructure, or field engineering roles - Deep experience with Linux/Unix installation, configuration, debugging, and performance tuning - Strong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, RDMA, and low-latency Ethernet Hands-on experience with high-speed networking such as 100GbE / 400GbE - Strong ability to diagnose performance and integration issues across hardware + OS + networking layers BMC experience, telemetry/monitoring systems, RMA/failure analysis exposure - Travel up to 30% to customer sites for deployments, on-site debugging, and launch support **Benefits** - Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage * $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits - Housing subsidy of $2,500 per month for those living within walking distance of the office - Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row) - Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more - Daily lunch and dinner in our office - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification **How we’re different** Etched believes in the [Bitter Lesson](http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html). We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors. We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value engineering skills. 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