Core Engineering Intern

• Have a track record of solving hard problems across stacks and domains — you enjoy being dropped into unfamiliar territory and figuring it out

• Have something you built that you can walk us through in depth. Depth in one thing beats a list of ten

• Are comfortable with Python and TypeScript: you can read it, modify it, debug it, and direct AI to write it well. We don't care whether you write code from scratch, but we do care whether you ship things that work

• Have product sense and its necessary prerequisites, from AI tooling proficiency to design taste

• Bias towards action and comfort with incomplete information

• Data engineering, infrastructure or DevOps experience, and deploying operational systems in enterprise environments

• Experience wielding frontier models on frontier problems: an eval-driven mindset — you measure whether AI systems work, identify where they fall short, and know how to hillclimb

• High agency and comfort with ambiguity — you find the real problem to solve

• Prior startup experience, especially during hyper growth

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification

• 12-week paid internship (June - August 2026)

• Generous housing support for those relocating

• Daily lunch and dinner in our office

• Based at our office in San Jose, CA

• Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers

• Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time

For any questions, contact internships@etched.com

How we're different
Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. 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.

We are a fully in-person team in San Jose and Taipei, and greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.