Fleet Software Lead - San Jose, United States
Originally posted 7 October 2026 by the employer.
Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence, co-designing chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads.
About the role
This role involves leading the Fleet Software team, responsible for deploying inference clusters at gigawatt-scale.
What you'll do
- Lead and develop the Fleet Software team, including setting priorities, hiring, and mentoring.
- Define the architecture and roadmap for fleet provisioning, configuration, updates, and recovery.
- Establish approaches for safe software and firmware rollouts, including validation and staged deployment.
- Guide the design of telemetry and log pipelines, covering storage, retention, and query performance.
- Lead the development of monitoring, alerting, and analysis tools for fleet behavior and failure investigation.
- Stay involved through design reviews, code contributions, and hands-on debugging of technical problems.
What you'll need
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including leading projects or managing engineers.
- Experience building and owning infrastructure software in production, including deployments and incidents.
- Strong background in fleet management, provisioning, configuration, or observability for compute infrastructure or connected devices.
- Solid distributed systems and Linux fundamentals.
- Strong coding and debugging skills.
- Experience setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and shipping work across team boundaries.
Nice to have
- Telemetry and log pipelines, including storage, retention, and query performance.
- Bare metal servers, accelerator clusters, robotics, or other hardware fleets.
- Firmware updates, hardware diagnostics, and automated recovery.
- Software that runs in customer environments as well as internal infrastructure.
Skills: fleet provisioning, configuration management, software rollouts, monitoring, distributed systems, Linux fundamentals
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
912
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$229k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Etched | All employers we track in this specialty (912 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 8 | 912 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 40 | 6047 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 132 d | 51 d (+81 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: fleet provisioning, configuration management, software rollouts, monitoring, distributed systems, Linux fundamentals
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 250 open roles · median 49 d
- Qualcomm · 60 open roles · median 61 d
- AMD · 51 open roles · median 28 d
- Cerebras · 40 open roles · median 74 d
- Graphcore · 38 open roles · median 101 d
- Intel Corporation · 33 open roles · median 21 d
How we counted: 912 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.