Applied AI

Etched is building the first transformer-specific AI chip. By trading flexibility for performance, one Etched server has >20x more throughput (tokens per second) than an NVIDIA 8xH100 GPU. Weve raised >$125M and are a 60-person team in Cupertino, CA.

From spending 30% of your time doing research to discussing recent ML papers with customers to demoing performance models for how our chip will run their workloads, you will be the technical expert working with customers as we ramp to $100M in pre-orders.

Representative Projects

• Presenting to the CTO, Head of AI, and Hardware/Data Center expert at a AI company, cloud, or trading firm to understand their needs and demonstrate the value of Sohu
• Running and improving customer demos of our product
• Giving technical feedback to the engineering and ML teams to improve the product
• Creating Sohu cluster configurations given customer requests
• AI research
  
  

Ideal Traits

• Great with people: builds trust, communicates effectively, and understands client dynamics
• Technical depth: deeply understands complex technical concepts, gives a wow factor when presenting to engineering teams
• Credibility: understands the customer problems (ideally experienced them firsthand)
  
  

Ideal Experience

• Deeply familiar with transformer models and inference optimization
• At least somewhat familiar with AI hardware and data center infrastructure
• Customer-facing and/or partnerships experience
  
  

Bonus Points

• Worked at a potential Etched customer (AI company, cloud, or trading firm)
• Wrote custom kernels, evaluated different AI chips, and/or led compute decisions for an AI company