Talent Intern

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.

We are an in-person team in San Jose, CA, and are on-site 5 days a week. We are looking for Summer ’26, Fall ’26, Spring ’27, and Summer ’27 interns.

Key responsibilities:

• Interview Scheduling & Logistics:

  • Schedule interviews (end-to-end) for various hiring needs.

  • Manage logistics for onsite interviews.

  • Greet candidates onsite and provide a welcoming experience.

  • Act as a scheduling and interview planner.

• Candidate Experience:

  • Support a seamless candidate experience.

  • Manage clear, concise, and professional communication with candidates.

  • Handle candidate reimbursement and travel.

• Operational Support:

  • Partner with recruiters, sourcers, and hiring managers.

  • Use tools like Ashby, G-Suite, Notion, Slack, etc to solve recruiter operations challenges.

  • Adapt to an ever-changing environment.

Representative projects

• Managing the scheduling of a high-volume interview pipeline.

• Troubleshooting and resolving scheduling conflicts.

• Improving the onboarding experience for onsite interviewees.

• Implementation of improvements to the candidate reimbursement process.

You may be a good fit if you have

• Previous experience in calendaring, administrative, customer service, or recruiting roles.

• Strong professional written and verbal communication skills.

• High organizational skills and the ability to prioritize tasks.

• Experience with scheduling tools (Ashby, G-Suite, Notion, Slack, etc.)

• Detail-oriented and proactive problem-solving skills.

• Plans to graduate between May 2026 – May 2027 (new grads are welcome to apply for this position).

Strong candidates may also have experience with

• Data-Driven Ownership: Proactively track interview metrics, identify inefficiencies, and propose solutions for continuous improvement.

• Adaptable Event Coordination: Seamlessly manage onsite interviews with event-level precision, adjusting to dynamic needs.

• Humble Service Focus: Deliver exceptional candidate experiences in fast-paced settings, prioritizing smooth processes over personal recognition.

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

Program details:

• 12-week paid internship

• 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 are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.

We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), 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.