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# Manufacturing Test Engineer (Taiwan) at Etched

- **Company:** [Etched](https://feeny.ai/companies/etched)
- **Location:** Taoyuan, Taiwan
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/e593a2f6-8f0b-4328-9fd9-b0ff85cf0827

## Job 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.

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.

Job Summary

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.

## Key Responsibilities

- Troubleshooting & repair: Diagnose and repair electronic assemblies (PCBA) down to the component level; isolate faults across module, L10, and L11 levels.
- Factory ownership: Work directly on-site with Contract Manufacturers (CMs) and ODMs in Taiwan to close capability gaps, improve yield, and qualify new components.
- Ad-hoc bring-up: Support new-product and new-station bring-up on short notice — proto builds, DOE runs, first-article testing, and test station/fixture debug, often under compressed schedules.
- Test execution: Set up and operate test equipment (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, DMMs) and factory test stations.
- Fixture design & implementation: Support (and over time lead) PCBA test fixture design and its factory implementation.
- DFM/DFT: Drive DFM and DFT across the product lifecycle, partnering with EE designers and validation engineers to improve test coverage, manufacturability, and diagnosability.
- Documentation & reporting: Maintain detailed records of failure data and repair actions; own and update debug procedures and FA/RMA SOPs used by the line.
- Cross-functional support: Collaborate with design, quality, and production teams — across Taiwan and San Jose time zones — to resolve recurring issues and lift product yield.
- Component & supply partnership: Partner with Component Engineering, Supply Chain, and Hardware teams to influence component selection and mitigate manufacturing risk early in the design cycle.
- FMEA: Review and influence Process FMEA and Design FMEA, providing diagnostics input.
- Yield leadership: Take point on complex issue resolution and drive defect and yield improvement initiatives to closure.

You may be a good fit if you have

- 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.

You would set yourself apart from the crowd if you have

- 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.

## Benefits

- Competitive market pay + equity
- Comprehensive medical package
- US onboarding experience at our HQ in Silicon Valley, with ongoing travel to San Jose
- Direct ownership of test engineering for a first-of-its-kind AI product, from first proto board to volume ramp

## 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. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.

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.

## About Etched

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Etched designs and manufactures specialized ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) that are hardwired to run transformer-based AI models, offering an order-of-magnitude improvement in inference cost and energy efficiency over general-purpose GPUs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B / later stage; total raised $800M as of June 2026)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, USA (also has offices in Cupertino, CA; Sacramento, CA; and small presence in Taiwan, Canada, UK, Bulgaria)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Gavin Uberti (CEO), Robert Wachen (President & COO), Chris Zhu (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI hardware / semiconductor design / computer hardware manufacturing
- **Target customers**: Frontier AI labs, hyperscalers, and enterprises running large-scale transformer inference workloads (B2B, enterprise)
- **Mission / purpose**: Build hardware for superintelligence – specifically, the world’s most powerful servers for transformer inference.

## Products & Services
- **Sohu Chip (ASIC)**: A transformer-specific ASIC manufactured by TSMC. It burns the transformer architecture directly into silicon, eliminating the overhead of general-purpose GPUs for inference.
- **Frontier Inference Clusters**: Full-stack systems that bundle the Sohu chip with custom-designed racks, networking, and software. Customers place orders for complete systems, not just chips. Etched claims they deliver more tokens per dollar and per watt for dense models, sparse MoEs, diffusion models, and more.
- **Software Stack**: Includes compiler and runtime optimizations built by a team with deep experience (former Apache TVM developer, ex-Google TPU software lead).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $5 billion post-money valuation (as of December 2025 / disclosed June 2026)
- **Key Metric**: $1 billion in contract orders (booked) for its systems; total funding of $800M (including an unannounced $500M round closed Dec 2025 led by Stripes)
- **Notable Investors**: Stripes (lead), VentureTech Alliance, Jane Street, Hudson River Trading, Two Sigma, Ribbit Capital. Angel investors include Andrej Karpathy, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Arthur Mensch, Scott Wu, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Thiel. Earlier backers: Positive Sum, Primary Venture Partners.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 258 employees (as of mid-2026), up 141% year-over-year
  - 100+ active job postings across engineering, operations, and business functions
  - $500M raise in late 2025; first chip manufactured by TSMC in 2025 and now being tested with customers
  - Talent sources include Google (21), Apple (17), NVIDIA (16), Tesla (11), Intel (10), AMD (5)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Transformer-specific architecture**: Unlike GPUs (which are general-purpose), Etched’s chip is hardwired only for transformer operations, enabling drastically lower cost and latency for today’s dominant AI model architecture.
- **Full-stack system play**: By selling entire inference clusters (chip + rack + software), Etched captures more value and delivers a turnkey solution competitive with NVIDIA’s DGX/HGX systems.
- **Deeply experienced leadership**:
  - CEO Gavin Uberti (Harvard math researcher, AI compiler expert, Apache TVM contributor)
  - President Robert Wachen (co-founded Prod AI incubator; Thiel Fellow)
  - VP of Platform (ex-NVIDIA 22 years, built HGX/DGX systems)
  - VP of Software (ex-Google DeepMind, lead TPU v1–v5 software)
  - Chief Architect Saptadeep Pal (former Auradine co-founder, chiplet expert)
  - VP of Hardware Engineering Ajat Hukkoo (ex-Cypress CTO, shipped >$1B revenue products)

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale manufacturing and customer deliveries**: With the first chip successfully fabricated, the company is now testing production systems and aims to fulfill $1B in pre-orders.
- **Expand engineering talent**: Aggressively hiring across silicon design, validation, infrastructure, optics, and software to support volume ramp.
- **Maintain technological lead**: Continue refining the ASIC for future transformer variants and MoE mixtures while building out a partner ecosystem.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven, high-impact engineering**: “Building the hardware for superintelligence” – the company is solving one of the hardest problems in compute (inference efficiency) with a focused team.
- **Top-tier team and learning environment**: Colleagues from Google, NVIDIA, Apple, Tesla, Broadcom, and Intel; exposure to full-stack chip-to-system design.
- **In-office culture**: All roles are in-office (Cupertino and San Jose, CA). The company emphasizes on-site collaboration for hardware development. Notable perks are not heavily advertised, but compensation is competitive for the AI hardware space (equity-heavy).
- **Growth trajectory**: 141% headcount growth YoY, hundreds of open roles, and a $5B valuation signal strong backing and career acceleration potential.
- **Intellectual challenge**: Work on chip simulation, RTL design, system validation, or software infrastructure for cutting-edge AI inference.

## Sources
1. [etched.com/careers](https://www.etched.com/careers)
2. [builtin.com/company/etched](https://builtin.com/company/etched)
3. [linkedin.com/company/etched-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/etched-ai)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/etched](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/etched)
5. [techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/nvidia-competitor-etched-hits-5b-valuation-1b-in-sales-for-ai-chip/](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/nvidia-competitor-etched-hits-5b-valuation-1b-in-sales-for-ai-chip/)

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