Capital Projects - Electrical Infrastructure Engineer

The posting, as Etched wrote it

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

Own the electrical infrastructure that enables Etched to develop, test, and scale hardware from chip to rack to data center. As an individual contributor on the Capital Projects and Facilities Engineering team, you will translate evolving product requirements into practical electrical systems and drive projects from early planning and design through construction, commissioning, and operational handoff.

You will help establish our electrical standards, practice safe operations, build internal design capability, and accelerate decisions across new facilities and retrofits. You will serve as the electrical technical owner for assigned projects, develop internal concepts and preliminary designs, and direct technical work with consultants, contractors, and equipment vendors. External engineers of record will support detailed design and permitting where required.

We value strong fundamentals, practical judgment, and demonstrated ownership. Your experience may come from consulting, contracting, electrical trades, commissioning, facilities operations, military technical training, or another path. You should be comfortable with high velocity projects, working in the field, challenging assumptions, and turning incomplete or changing requirements into safe, executable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate stakeholder needs into electrical load forecasts, capacity plans, design criteria, and distribution concepts for bench, lab, rack test, and data center environments.
• Assess prospective sites and identify infrastructure constraints and expansion options.
• Develop single-line diagrams, load calculations, equipment requirements, and preliminary layouts. Evaluate distribution architectures and equipment including transformers, switchgear, UPS, generators, ATS, panelboards, busway, and rack power distribution.
• Lead technical reviews of consultant designs, equipment submittals, and field installations. Scope and review short-circuit, protection coordination, arc-flash, and power-quality studies with qualified design partners; resolve constructability, maintainability, and system integration issues.
• Own assigned electrical projects through scope definition, equipment selection, procurement support, construction coordination, commissioning, and handoff. Projects range from swapping receptacles to designing our pod. Develop BOM and specs, evaluate technical proposals, track cost and schedule impacts, and hold vendors accountable for deliverables.
• Rapidly assess changing

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ning; reliability improvements, capacity planning, and technical vendor or project leadership.

Target Backgrounds

We welcome candidates from consulting engineering and design-build firms; electrical contractors and trades; testing and commissioning companies; switchgear, UPS, and other equipment manufacturers or field-service teams; data centers and critical facilities; industrial plants and utilities; semiconductor, biotech, and advanced manufacturing facilities; research laboratories; and military power systems.

Relevant titles may include Electrical Engineer, Electrical Designer, Commissioning Engineer, Field Service Engineer or Technician, Electrical Superintendent, Industrial Electrician, Relay or Test Technician, Critical Facilities Engineer, Chief Engineer, or Plant Engineer. What matters is the depth of your electrical expertise, your judgment, and what you have personally delivered.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
• $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
• Housing subsidy of $2,500 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 and dinner in our office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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 (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 and work across disciplines as needed.