Production Intern
Location: San Jose, CA
Team: Production

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.

As Etched scales global deployments of our transformer inference systems, we are seeking Production interns to work on sourcing and supply chain for L11 hardware and work on day-to-day execution across our contract manufacturers.

You will aid in Etched’s supply chain process, ensuring we can scale production rapidly, efficiently, and reliably. This role will interact with purchase orders for large-scale orders, work cross-functionally to understand needs across hardware engineering and manufacturing operations, and provide mentorship with industry leaders.

You may be a good fit if you have

• Progress towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field.

• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, operations, and program management teams

• Excellent communication, analytical, and leadership skills

• Strong candidates may also have experience with

• Supply chain, sourcing, or commodity management for datacenter, networking, or compute hardware

• Strong understanding of switches, PDUs/CDUs, racks, cabling, and datacenter infrastructure

• Cost modeling, should-cost analysis, and total cost of ownership evaluation

• Data center infrastructure design, thermal and power distribution systems

• Working in a fast-paced hardware startup environment

• Familiarity with semiconductor or AI hardware supply chains is highly desirable

• 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.