Core Ops Intern
Location: San Jose, CA
Team: Operations

About Etched

Etched is building the world’s first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents. 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.

We are an in-person team in San Jose, CA, and are on-site 5 days a week.

The Role

The Core Operations team is our SEAL Team 6, tackling the most critical challenges across the organization and working directly with our leadership team.

This role requires business acumen, analytical skills, strong interpersonal skills, and ownership of high-priority initiatives. While your focus will shift over time, you will be working on the most important problems of today. It will be fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and offer opportunities to take on greater responsibilities while helping shape our company’s growth and direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Mission-Critical Initiatives: support the execution of high-priority, high-scope projects, ensuring measurable outcomes that align with the company’s objectives.

• Facilitate Leadership Decision-Making: assist in preparing strategic insights and actionable recommendations to the leadership team through rigorous data analysis, identifying process gaps, optimizing workflows, and driving performance improvements across the business.

• Communication: Develop and deliver high-impact materials for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clarity, alignment, and transparency across all levels. Foster a shared internal understanding of the company’s goals and objectives.

• Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: work cross-functionally between the executive team and departments across the organization, aligning teams on strategic initiatives, tracking progress, and ensuring timely, high-quality execution of key projects.

• Establish Operational Metrics: Work with leadership to set and track key performance indicators (KPIs), monitoring organizational performance and diagnosing opportunities for optimization to drive operational excellence and business impact.

You Might Be a Fit If You Have:

• Previous internship experience in high-ownership, high-pressure roles within finance, consulting, or startup environments.

• Ability to support multiple concurrent high-impact projects from inception to completion. Skilled in driving cross-functional alignment, ensuring accountability, and delivering results.

• Comfort with ambiguity and working within a rapidly changing environment with ever shifting priorities.

• Expertise in designing and developing reports to elucidate metrics that measure success and drive decisions.

• Ability to quickly synthesize information, create compelling presentations, and parse complex data with custom spreadsheets.

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

Program Details:

• 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 think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models, and the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model-specific hardware. Larger and larger training runs encourage companies to consolidate around fewer model architectures, which creates a market for single-model ASICs.

We are a fully in-person team in West San Jose, 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.

Etched is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.