Talent Intern, Etched
Summer 2027
5+ days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
Designing specialised chips for language model inference
Posted today
Designing specialised chips for language model inference
21-100 employees
Posted today
5+ days a week in office (San Jose, CA)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create the world’s most powerful servers for transformer inference.
Role
Who you are
- 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)
- We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 12-week paid internship (June - August 2027)
- 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
Our take
With AI developing rapidly, the chips that power them are doing so too. The computing requirements of technologies such as Chat GPT will increasingly require customised, hard-wired chips called ASICS, designed specially for the execution of AI models. Whilst GPUs are currently used for AI computing, Etched is making a bet on AI-hardwired chips becoming the predominant powering force of AI.
It’s a gamble, the founders themselves know that if transformers become obsolete, so will their AI-powering product. The SOHU chip that Etched builds differs from GPUs in that it has the AI architecture etched into the chip itself. General Processing Units are “general” and costly, so Etched is betting on specialised transformers taking their place in the near future.
Investors are drawn to Etched’s boldness. The 2022-founded company achieved $120 million in Series A funding just two years into its life, and received a further $500 million at the start of 2026. Etched plans to use this to amp up its competition with GPU company Nvidia, and claims to be 20 times faster than the latter’s AI-powered general processor - and significantly less costly too. Time will tell if Etched’s exciting and potentially revolutionary bet on tailored AI chips and transformers pays off.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2026
$500m
LATE VC
Jun 2024
$120m
SERIES A
Total funding: $625.4m
Company benefits
- Competitive Salary and Equity - We offer a competitive salary and equity package that aligns with industry standards
- Benefits - Your wellbeing is important to us. We offer unlimited PTO, life insurance, and a 401(k)
- Full Insurance Coverage - Our insurance includes full medical, dental, and vision with 100% of premium covered
Company HQ
Horace Mann and SJSU, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Robert Wachen
(Co-Founder & President)Also the Co-Founder of Prod and Mentor Labs, Birthday Cakes 4 Free Maryland and Generate Sales Online.
Gavin Uberti
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Software Engineer at OctoML, Algorithms and BAckend Engineer at Coursedog and was a Software Engineer Intern at Xnor.ai.
Chris Zhu
(Co-Founder)Was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard and a Software Engineering Intern at Amazon and AvantStay. Was an Analyst at Harvard Undergraduate Capital Partners.
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