Inventory Site Lead (Milpitas)

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.

production, our engineering labs and our contract manufacturers. You'll supervise the Milpitas Inventory team (receiving, warehouse coordinators and material handlers) and own the accuracy of every record: what is on hand, where it is, what it is allocated to, and what has left the building. You'll work closely with the SMT line, Procurement, Engineering and Finance. This is a working-lead role: you set the standard, build the processes, and are on the floor hands on when a count, a receipt or an investigation needs your hands.

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• Minimum of three years of experience in inventory or warehouse operations in a manufacturing or electronics environment.

• Hands-on experience with SAP, NetSuite or a comparable ERP for receiving, transfers, cycle counts and inventory adjustments.

• Experience managing inventory and leading a team: setting priorities, scheduling, training and holding a standard.

• Proficient in Excel: lookups, pivot tables and building a clean weekly report from transaction data.

• Experience running cycle-count programs and investigating variances to root cause.

• Strong communication skills and ability to coordinate closely with Engineering, Supply Chain and Operations teams.

• Comfortable on the floor: ESD-controlled areas, lifting up to 50 lb, and standing for extended periods.

• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation between San Jose and Milpitas.

• Exposure to electronics manufacturing (SMT/PCBA), including MSD and ESD handling.

• Experience managing consigned or customer-furnished material at contract manufacturers.

• Prior lab or warehouse experience in a semiconductor or hardware environment.

• Experience supporting inventory audits or compliance processes.

• Familiarity with startup operations or fast-paced R&D cycles.

• Forklift certification (training on our 8,000 lb forklift will be provided).

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. 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 this role is based at our site in Milpitas. We do not have boundaries between teams, and we expect everyone to work across disciplines as needed.

As set forth in Etched's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.