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Core Software Engineer

Etched

On-siteSan Jose, CAmid$150k–$275kPosted 8h ago

Job description

  • You’ll build the products that will power a majority of the world’s inference

  • The Core Engineering team is our special forces

  • This role works directly with our founders to identify critical gaps across the organization and build solutions 0 to 1, often in days not weeks, with immediate feedback loops

  • Your projects will vary widely: one week you might build internal infrastructure to unblock a hardware team, the next you might prototype a deployment for a customer or stand up a new tooling workflow

  • You’ll detect problems and inefficiencies across the organization, bringing them to the attention of the executive team, and develop custom applications and projects for each need. The ideal candidate should be comfortable shipping from scratch every week

  • Work cross-functionally to execute special projects between the executive team and the rest of the organization

  • Define and represent operational milestones by collecting company data, developing business intuitions, and executing whatever needs to be done to meet them

  • Design the interfaces, developer workflows, and critical infrastructure that will define the company’s technical foundation

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary and Equity - We offer a competitive salary and equity package that aligns with industry standards

  • Benefits - Your wellbeing is important to us. We offer unlimited PTO, life insurance, and a 401(k)

  • Full Insurance Coverage - Our insurance includes full medical, dental, and vision with 100% of premium covered- This role is for engineers who thrive on ambiguity, move fast without sacrificing quality, and get energy from solving whatever problem matters most right now

  • It is a whiteboard for future founders – if you’re interested in shipping 0-1 production-level code every week, this role is for you

  • This role requires not only exceptional full-stack engineering capabilities, but also deep product sense, personal accountability, and a knack for building from the ground up. It is a whiteboard for future founders

  • This role will not be a 9-5, and the ideal candidate is excited about that

  • 1-5 years of experience building and shipping software end to end, ideally in a startup environment

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

  • Ability to continuously learn, set metrics, and solve problems with minimal supervision and maximum impact

  • Bias towards action and comfort with incomplete information

  • Excitement for solving technical problems with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools

  • Strong full-stack skills (TypeScript, React, Python)

  • Infrastructure or DevOps experience

  • Deploying AI systems in enterprise environments

  • Prior startup experience, especially during hyper growth