Manufacturing Engineer - Electrical Engineering at Etched
Etched · San Jose, United States Of America · Onsite
- Professional
- Office in San Jose
About Etched
Etched is building AI chips that are hard-coded for individual model architectures. Our first product (Sohu) only supports transformers, but has an order of magnitude more throughput and lower 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.
Job Summary
As a Manufacturing Electrical Engineer at Etched, you will own the electrical manufacturing side of our AI systems, ensuring seamless product introduction from NPI through high-volume ramp. You will collaborate with hardware, ASIC, mechanical, and reliability engineering to drive manufacturability, yield, and cost efficiency at scale. This role focuses on board-level bring-up, design-for-manufacturing (DFM), BOM risk management, and sustaining improvements to ensure our AI hardware meets the highest standards of quality and reliability.
Representative projects
Lead new product introduction (NPI) and sustaining engineering activities at board and system level.
Drive Design for Manufacturing (DFM) reviews to ensure robust, scalable, and cost-effective production.
Partner with Component Engineering, Supply Chain, and Hardware teams to influence component selection and mitigate manufacturing risk early in the design cycle.
Own BOM structuring and risk management, ensuring supply resilience and cost control.
Perform board bring-up and debug, applying DOE/EFA and hands-on lab work.
Review and influence Process FMEA and Design FMEA, providing diagnostics input.
Work directly with Contract Manufacturers (CMs) and ODMs to close capability gaps, improve yield, and qualify new components.
Develop, release, and maintain product documentation across the lifecycle.
Provide leadership in complex issue resolution and drive defect/yield improvement initiatives.
Use industry-standard debug tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, TDR, etc.) to troubleshoot issues down to board and component level.
You may be a good fit if you have
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
5+ years of experience in manufacturing, product, or electrical engineering
Strong knowledge of system hardware architectures and PCB fabrication/assembly processes.
Experience with DFX/DFM, yield assessment, and board-level debug.
Hands-on experience with PCB CAD/CAE tools (e.g., Allegro, Valor) and understanding of design-to-build flows.
Proven ability to work across NPI and sustaining environments, from proto bring-up to ramp.
Strong problem-solving skills with focus on yield, manufacturability, and cost optimization.
Collaborative mindset to work effectively with cross-functional teams and suppliers.
Benefits
Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with generous premium coverage
Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office
Daily lunch and dinner in our office
Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
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 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 as needed.
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