IA Research Engineer (Kernels) Intern
Originally posted 4 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As an IA Research Engineer (Kernels) Intern, you will embed with the kernels team to build agentic harnesses, tools, and evals that support long-running engineering workflows.
What you'll do
- Embed with the kernels team to identify high-leverage bottlenecks and build tools used by engineers daily.
- Build and deploy LLM agents wired into engineering workflows via tool-calling and MCP.
- Help build execution environments where agents verify their own work with sandboxed access to simulators, compilers, profilers, and real hardware.
- Ship internal products end to end, including interfaces, data pipelines, and infrastructure.
- Design evals and track adoption to measure tool effectiveness.
- Support special projects across the company.
What you'll need
- Progress towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field.
- Record of shipping software engineering projects that other people use.
- Experience building agents for multi-step tasks beyond basic API calls, including tool design, context management, evals, and failure analysis.
- Experience with coding agents, including inspecting transcripts and adjusting systems when agents fail.
Skills: LLM agents, GPU kernels, tool-calling, evals, compilers, simulators
More semiconductor jobs: Etched jobs
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 53-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1005
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Median days open
53 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$236k
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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 (1005 roles · 93 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 9 | 1005 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 44 | 6403 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 49 d | 53 d (−4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: LLM agents, GPU kernels, tool-calling, evals, compilers, simulators
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 314 open roles · median 56 d
- Qualcomm · 59 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 48 open roles · median 34 d
- Graphcore · 48 open roles · median 97 d
- Intel Corporation · 42 open roles · median 20 d
- Cerebras · 36 open roles · median 99 d
How we counted: 1005 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 93 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 4 Nov 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.