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

Etched is seeking a versatile Lab Technician to join our hardware team. You will play a crucial role in enabling Etched Taiwan Lab operation and supporting engineering projects across electrical, thermal, and mechanical disciplines, performing high-reliability rework on advanced PCBs, including those supporting custom ASICs, keeping our state-of-the-art labs running smoothly as we scale to rapid production.

This is a hands-on role. You'll set up experiments, perform measurement tasks, collect data, and maintain the organization and functionality of our lab environment. Our engineers move fast and rely on a well-run lab to validate designs, troubleshoot issues, and iterate quickly. If you take pride in keeping complex technical environments running and enjoy being the person teams count on to get things done, this role offers real impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Set up and configure test equipment and experiments for electrical, thermal, and mechanical engineering activities

• Maintain lab organization, inventory, and equipment functionality. Ensure tools and systems are calibrated, accessible, and ready for use.

• Support water cooling system setup and maintenance for high-power server environments.

• Help oversee general lab activities and lab setup, equipment maintenance, equipment and supply procurement for the lab

• Perform soldering, cable assembly, and board-level rework as needed.

• Perform precision rework and reballing of large BGAs, including custom ASIC packages exceeding 70mm in size.

• Inspect reworked assemblies using X-ray or AOI systems to ensure joint integrity and alignment.

• Maintain detailed rework documentation and communicate findings or design improvement opportunities to engineers.

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

• Proven experience as a lab technician or similar role in an engineering environment.

• Familiarity with water cooling systems and general lab maintenance procedures.

• Experienced and comfortable working safely around 50V high-voltage servers.

• Experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, and other standard EE lab equipment

• Experience with large BGAs (>70mm), QFNs, and fine-pitch ICs operating advanced rework systems for custom ASICs and high-power devices

• Experience with hot air/IR rework stations, microscopes, soldering irons, and large-area rework platforms.

• Experience with inventory management and lab organization systems

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages, including generous equity packages

• US onboarding experience in our Silicon Valley HQ
  

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 and Taipei, 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.