People Operations

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.

The People Operations team architects and maintains the people systems, operating rhythms, and org design at Etched. You'll lead payroll operations, HR systems, compliance, employee records, and workflow automation while building scalable processes that support rapid growth. You'll partner closely with Finance, Legal, IT, and leadership to ensure our people infrastructure is accurate, efficient, and built to scale.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building systems, improving processes, and making operations run exceptionally well.

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• A process-oriented mindset, with a track record of building systems that scale without requiring constant maintenance.

• A commitment to operational excellence, shaped by experience in high-ownership, high-pressure environments such as finance, consulting, or fast-growing startups.

• Strong strategic thinking skills, with an understanding of how talent decisions directly connect to business outcomes.

• A highly organized and detail-oriented approach — nothing slips through the cracks under your watch.

• Comfort working with data and building live dashboards and reports to drive clarity and decision-making.

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage and collaborate effectively at all levels of the organization.

• A high sense of ownership — you instinctively take initiative and tackle problems head-on.

• HR tools such as HRIS systems (e.g., Rippling), payroll platforms, or compliance solutions.

• Employment law, immigration, or cross-border employment issues.

• The AI ecosystem, semiconductors, or other complex technical products.

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 greatly value engineering skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both and work across disciplines as needed.