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# Supercomputing Software Engineer (Taiwan) at Etched

- **Company:** [Etched](https://feeny.ai/companies/etched)
- **Location:** Taipei, Taiwan
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/f80dc5c6-de4f-455c-9c98-720313e5547a/application

**Skills:** C, C++, Python, BIOS, BMC Firmware, Server Boot Processes, Root of Trust, Linux, System Logging, Git, Hardware Logs, Kubernetes, Docker, perf, eBPF, ftrace, gProf, vTune, Wireshark, CI/CD

> The Supercomputing Software Engineer develops and integrates foundational server infrastructure software, including BIOS, BMC firmware, and kernel-mode drivers. The role focuses on optimizing system performance, security, and reliability for AI inference systems and data center orchestration technologies.

## 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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Supercomputing Software Engineer to join our team, responsible for the foundational software that powers our server infrastructure. This role focuses on the development, integration, and debugging of critical system software components, including BIOS, BMC firmware, boot processes (including NetBoot), root of trust implementations, advanced system logging, and kernel-mode drivers. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of our server platforms, and contribute to the integration of data center orchestration technologies at the node level.

## Key Team Responsibilities

- Integrate and maintain BIOS and BMC firmware, ensuring robust and efficient server boot processes.
- Analyze DRAM timings, PCIe configurations, power state transitions etc. to ensure high performance and maximal reliability.
- Validating security features, including root of trust mechanisms, to protect system integrity and data security.
- Design and implement advanced system logging and diagnostic capabilities to facilitate efficient troubleshooting and performance analysis.
- Integrate and optimize node-level data center orchestration technologies, such as Kubernetes and Docker, into the system software stack.
- Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate system software functionality, stability, and performance.
- Collaborate with hardware and software teams to diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues.

Representative Projects

- Implement and validate secure boot processes, including root of trust verification.
- Design and implement advanced system logging and monitoring solutions.
- Optimize BIOS and BMC firmware for improved boot times and system stability.
- Integrate node-level container orchestration capabilities into the system software.
- Analyze and resolve complex system-level issues related to boot failures, hardware errors, and performance degradation.
- Analyze and optimize system level logging for large scale server deployments.

You may be a good fit if you have

- Proficiency in C/C++ or Python.
- Strong understanding of BIOS and BMC firmware architectures.
- Experience with server boot processes.
- Knowledge of root-of-trust and security principles.
- Strong understanding of operating systems (Linux preferred) and server hardware architectures.
- Experience with advanced system logging and diagnostic tools.
- Ability to analyze complex technical problems and provide effective solutions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Experience with reading and interpreting hardware logs.

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

- Experience with data center orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Experience with tracing tools like perf, eBPF, ftrace, etc.
- Experience with performance testing and benchmarking tools (gProf, vTune, Wireshark, etc.).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Rust.
- Experience with kernel-mode driver development and debugging.

## Benefits

- Competitive compensation packages including generous equity packages
- Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits
- 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. 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 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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