People Operations

Etched is building the world’s first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents. 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 work directly with leadership to figure out how we organize, develop, and retain the best people as we rapidly scale in one of the world’s most important industries.

You'll own everything from org design and performance systems to people analytics and company culture. People are our most important asset at Etched: you'll learn how great startups are built, own important strategic people initiatives, and help drive some of the most critical decisions and workflows that determine how we organize and scale the business.

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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 think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models, and the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model-specific hardware. Larger and larger training runs encourage companies to consolidate around fewer model architectures, which creates a market for single-model ASICs.

We are a fully in-person team in San Jose and Taipei, 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 as needed.