Core Ops 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.

Job Summary

The Core Operations team tackles critical challenges across the organization and works directly with our leadership team. We are looking for Fall '26, Spring '27, and Summer '27 interns.

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 direction.

Key responsibilities

• Support the execution of high-priority, high-scope projects, ensuring measurable outcomes that align with the company’s objectives.
• Assist in preparing strategic insights and actionable recommendations to the leadership team through rigorous data analysis, identifying process gaps, and driving performance improvements across the business.
• Work cross-functionally between the executive team and departments across the organization to track progress and ensure timely, high-quality execution of key projects.
• Work with leadership to set and track key performance indicators, monitoring organizational performance and identifying opportunities for optimization.

You may be a good fit if you have

• Progress in a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or related fields.
• Previous internship experience in high-ownership, high-pressure roles within startup environments.
• Ability to support multiple concurrent high-impact projects from inception to completion. Skilled in driving alignment across teams, ensuring accountability, and delivering results.
• Comfort with ambiguity and working within a rapidly changing environment with shifting priorities.
• Ability to quickly synthesize information, create compelling presentations, and parse complex data.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every 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 http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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.