IA Research Engineer (Kernels) Intern

Etched builds hardware and software for frontier AI inference. The IA Research Engineer (Kernels) Intern will work with the kernels team to build agentic tools and workflows that accelerate engineering, verify agent output, and measure tool effectiveness.

Responsibilities:

• Embed with our kernels team to find high-leverage bottlenecks and help turn them into tools engineers use every day
• Build and deploy LLM agents wired into our engineering workflows via tool-calling and MCP
• Help build execution environments where agents can verify their own work, with sandboxed access to simulators, compilers, profilers, and real hardware
• Ship internal products end to end, including the interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure behind them
• Design evals and track adoption to measure which tools are working and which aren’t
• Support special projects with the founders across the company