Performance Tools Intern

Etched · Software

Location: San Jose, CA
Metro: San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: On-site
Level: Intern
Type: Internship
Posted: 3 months ago
Source: Simplify internships list

What the posting covers

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…

Job Summary

Join our team and take the lead in illuminating the performance landscape of our cutting-edge ML accelerator. We are seeking a highly skilled engineer to design and develop a sophisticated performance analysis tool, tailored specifically for our hardware. You…

During your internship, you may

Build components of our performance analysis and profiling infrastructure. Collect and analyze performance data from our custom ML accelerators, including hardware counters, execution traces, and memory behavior. Develop tooling to trace host-side runtime…

Representative projects

Implement the data collection framework for hardware performance counters on a custom PCIe-based accelerator. Develop a user-space service for low-overhead tracing of accelerator activity. Design and build a correlated timeline view visualizing CPU API calls,…

You may be a good fit if you have

Strong programming skills in C++ or Rust. Experience with Python is a plus. Solid understanding of computer architecture, including CPUs, GPUs or AI accelerators, memory hierarchies, and parallel programming. Experience or strong interest in low-level…

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors. We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), and greatly value…

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