Quality Engineer
Company: Etched
Location: San Jose
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
About Etched Etched is building the world’s first AI inference
system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher
performance and dramatically lower cost and 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. 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 We are seeking a
highly motivated Quality and Failure Analysis Engineer to join our
team. In this role, you will bridge the gap between hardware
design, production, and customer engagement to drive product
learning, design and process improvements for quality and
reliability, and work with the customer facing field teams to
ensure and improve customer satisfaction. As a start-up initiating
production, the person in this role will be driving the failure
analysis and response for issues and learnings from customer RMAs,
manufacturing pilots, and reliability testing. This includes
thorough root cause analysis, customer RCA and corrective action
reporting, and driving results into design and manufacturing
process improvements with the US and Taiwan teams. You will
collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including platform
design, test, software engineering, manufacturing, and go-to-market
and field support. Responsibilities Drive failure analysis :
Physical and electrical FA, manufacturing process analysis, and
other root-cause investigations for identifying sources of failures
and defects in customer returns, manufacturing pilot build
excursions, and reliability test or qualification failures
Implement corrective/preventive actions (8D, CAPA). Direct Customer
Quality Support: For quality and reliability issues and escalations
including customer RMA to failure analysis, root cause, and
corrective and preventive actions and customer reports of the same.
As shipments ramp, help build the team and develop the internal
analytical tools and capabilities, and external lab relationships,
to carry out this work. ODM/CM Collaboration: Partner with
production engineers and the quality and reliability engineering
team to help architect and design process improvements and
end-to-end quality monitors to ensure consistent and efficient
processes Champion continuous improvement projects across yield,
throughput, and defect reduction. You may be a good fit if you have
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical or electronics
engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field. 5 years
of hands-on complex system and/or PCBA failure analysis related
experience in quality engineering, computer engineering, or
manufacturing engineering roles, including publishing
customer-facing root causes analyses and corrective action reports
Experience with high-performance systems with high-speed
interconnect Proven track record working with Tier 1 US-based
contract manufacturers and/or ODMs, and third party or external FA
labs Familiarity with server assembly, burn-in, and system-level
test workflows. Strong knowledge of quality tools and methodologies
(SPC, FMEA, control plans, DOE). Strong understanding of
system-level and functional testing methodologies. Excellent
cross-functional communication skills; ability to drive alignment
across engineering, ops, customer facing teams, and suppliers.
Comfortable working on-site at CM factories and resolving issues in
real time. Strong candidates may also have experience with
(Nice-to-have qualifications) Background in high-performance
compute hardware. Experience with L6 (PCBA) - L11 (rack-level)
integration, testing, debug, and validation. ASQ or other
certifications in Quality Engineering, Failure Analysis, and/or
Process Improvement Exposure to thermal/power stress testing and
system engineering. Benefits Medical, dental, and vision packages
with generous premium coverage $500 per month credit for waiving
medical benefits Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living
within walking distance of the office Relocation support for those
moving to San Jose (Santana Row) Various wellness benefits covering
fitness, mental health, and more Daily lunch dinner in our office
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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