ETCHED LLC
Technical Writer (Machine Learning)
ETCHED LLC, Cupertino, California, United States, 95014
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 chain-of-thought reasoning.
Technical Writer & Designer (Machine Learning)
At Etched, we are creating machine intelligence at the next level. But it is useless unless humans can understand it. We hope you can join us to make this powerful machine intelligence understandable by humans and easily usable by humans. With Etched ASICs, we have fundamentally different constraints than existing AI chips. We don't have the same batch-size-latency tradeoff as GPUs. We can parallelize workloads and digest large contexts much more efficiently than GPUs.
Sohu enables entirely new research directions and products. When our chips come out, these use cases need to already be mature and visceral. Whether real-time video, agents, speculative decoding, or new tree search algorithms, we must create the market for our hardware.
If you like to create beautiful things, using AI-tools, for humans to use AI-tools, come and join us as Transformer-based machine intelligence is about to fundamentally change human life - if not already.
Representative projectsDesign UI/UX for powerful LLMs that goes beyond "chatting"Design and enhance interactive google colab-based demos for both hardware and software ML productsImplement doc-gen system like (python sphinx) for APIs and referencesWrite tutorials and quickstart guidesVisualizing continuous batching for LLM inferenceYou may be a good fit if you are/have
Excited and optimistic about AIHunger to learn and use AI day to dayPassionate about open source software and modelsComfortable with reading and writing code, using CLI, scriptingAn exceptional communicator, both verbal and writtenA strong portfolio of UI designs and visualizationStrong mathematical background, especially linear algebraThe ability to understand and visualize abstract concepts rooted in academic researchWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.
Strong candidates may also have experience with:
Software/Web UX workflow designSoftware/Web UI design and mockupGoogle interactive python colabPython sphinx, readthedocsC++ doxygenMarkdownJavascript, typescript with electron frameworkHow 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 Cupertino, 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.
Benefits:
Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with 100% of premium covered, 90% for dependentsHousing subsidy of
$2,000/month
for those living within walking distance of the officeDaily lunch and dinner in our officeRelocation support for those moving to Cupertino
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 chain-of-thought reasoning.
Technical Writer & Designer (Machine Learning)
At Etched, we are creating machine intelligence at the next level. But it is useless unless humans can understand it. We hope you can join us to make this powerful machine intelligence understandable by humans and easily usable by humans. With Etched ASICs, we have fundamentally different constraints than existing AI chips. We don't have the same batch-size-latency tradeoff as GPUs. We can parallelize workloads and digest large contexts much more efficiently than GPUs.
Sohu enables entirely new research directions and products. When our chips come out, these use cases need to already be mature and visceral. Whether real-time video, agents, speculative decoding, or new tree search algorithms, we must create the market for our hardware.
If you like to create beautiful things, using AI-tools, for humans to use AI-tools, come and join us as Transformer-based machine intelligence is about to fundamentally change human life - if not already.
Representative projectsDesign UI/UX for powerful LLMs that goes beyond "chatting"Design and enhance interactive google colab-based demos for both hardware and software ML productsImplement doc-gen system like (python sphinx) for APIs and referencesWrite tutorials and quickstart guidesVisualizing continuous batching for LLM inferenceYou may be a good fit if you are/have
Excited and optimistic about AIHunger to learn and use AI day to dayPassionate about open source software and modelsComfortable with reading and writing code, using CLI, scriptingAn exceptional communicator, both verbal and writtenA strong portfolio of UI designs and visualizationStrong mathematical background, especially linear algebraThe ability to understand and visualize abstract concepts rooted in academic researchWe encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.
Strong candidates may also have experience with:
Software/Web UX workflow designSoftware/Web UI design and mockupGoogle interactive python colabPython sphinx, readthedocsC++ doxygenMarkdownJavascript, typescript with electron frameworkHow 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 Cupertino, 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.
Benefits:
Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with 100% of premium covered, 90% for dependentsHousing subsidy of
$2,000/month
for those living within walking distance of the officeDaily lunch and dinner in our officeRelocation support for those moving to Cupertino