About the role
As an Infrastructure Engineer on Infra Labs, you will own the racks and server infrastructure across Etched's labs and data center sites through bring-up, validation, and testing. This role delivers hands-on, full-stack bare-metal infrastructure across office labs, hardware facilities, and colocation footprints.
What you'll do
- Deliver full-stack infrastructure for lab and data center sites, covering compute, networking, storage, and core services including DHCP, DNS, and NFS.
- Build and maintain bare-metal provisioning for servers, development kits, rack management controllers, and switches using PXE/iPXE, DHCP, and BMC/Redfish-driven imaging.
- Troubleshoot Linux hosts end-to-end on custom hardware across the Linux kernel, PCIe, NIC drivers and firmware, bonding, storage, and boot sequences.
- Configure top-of-rack switches, uplinks, VLANs, and IP planning, while diagnosing physical-layer faults such as link flaps, CRC errors, and failed optics.
- Write infrastructure automation in Ansible and Python through tested pull requests, and maintain observability dashboards using Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana.
- Manage shared lab compute infrastructure, including Slurm cluster partitions, reservations, and maintenance drains.
What you'll need
- 4+ years of hands-on infrastructure, data center systems, or bare-metal operations experience in on-prem environments physically touching hardware.
- Strong Linux systems skills on bare metal, including Linux kernel and driver debugging, PCIe, NIC troubleshooting, storage, and boot issues.
- Experience provisioning bare-metal fleets over the network using PXE/iPXE, DHCP, and DNS, alongside BMC management via Redfish or IPMI.
- Proven automation skills writing Ansible (YAML, Jinja2) and Python managed via Git pull requests and code reviews.
- Working networking knowledge covering L2/L3 fundamentals, VLANs, LACP, switch configuration, and optics or copper cabling at 100G and above.
- Ability to work on-site in San Jose, travel to Bay Area lab and data center sites, and physically rack and cable hardware.
Skills: bare metal, PXE, Linux kernel, BMC, Ansible, rack infrastructure
More semiconductor jobs: Etched jobs
First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 56-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1040
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Median days since first seen
56 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 (1040 roles · 93 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 10 | 1040 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 45 | 6578 · 158 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 43 d | 56 d (+13 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: bare metal, PXE, Linux kernel, BMC, Ansible, rack infrastructure
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 350 open roles · median 61 d
- AMD · 56 open roles · median 36 d
- Qualcomm · 56 open roles · median 62 d
- Graphcore · 47 open roles · median 118 d
- Arm Holdings · 38 open roles · median 15 d
- Intel Corporation · 37 open roles · median 23 d
How we counted: 1040 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 93 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 12 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, and is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.