Manufacturing Test Engineer (Taiwan)

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.

Taiwan is where our products get built. Our Manufacturing Test Engineering team sits closest to the line — you will be the engineer the factory calls when a board, a module, or a rack does not pass.

As a Product Test Engineer on the Manufacturing Test Engineering team in Taiwan, you will own the electrical debug and failure analysis side of our AI systems at our contract manufacturing partners, taking products from NPI bring-up through high-volume ramp. You will work hands-on at the factory alongside CM/ODM engineers, and partner with our hardware, ASIC, diagnostics, test, and reliability teams in Taiwan and San Jose to drive diagnosability, manufacturing predictability, yield and material improvements, and product reliability.

This role focuses on PCBA and L10/L11 server diagnosability and efficiency of repair, plus the sustaining improvements that keep our AI hardware at the highest standards of quality and reliability.

Builds, bring-ups, and yield escalations require a hands-on approach and flexibility to adapt to critical project timelines as we move products from NPI through high-volume ramp.

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• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.

• 2–8 years of experience in manufacturing test, product, or electrical engineering — ideally gained inside a factory or working shoulder-to-shoulder with CM/ODM partners.

• Hands-on board-level debug experience: schematics, electronics circuits, and PCB layouts.

• Working knowledge of system hardware architectures and PCB fabrication/assembly processes.

• Experience with DFX/DFM, yield assessment, and failure analysis.

• Experience across NPI and sustaining environments, from proto bring-up to ramp.

• Flexibility to adjust your schedule to meet project milestones and support critical build windows and to travel domestically to CM/ODM sites on short notice.

• Working English for daily collaboration with our San Jose teams; fluent Mandarin for day-to-day factory work.

• A collaborative, low-ego mindset — you will be the interface between Etched engineering and the factory floor.
  

• Experience in test fixture design and factory implementation support (ICT, BFT, FRU, SLT).

• Hands-on experience with PCB CAD/CAE tools (e.g., Allegro, Valor) and design-to-build flows.

• Scripting for test automation and failure-data analysis (Python, Linux).

• Experience with high-performance compute, server, or data center hardware, including liquid-cooled systems.
  

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 greatly value engineering skills and do not put boundaries between engineering and research — we expect all of our technical staff to work across disciplines as needed. In Taiwan, that means engineers who go to the line, get their hands on the hardware, and own the outcome.