Operations - Talent

About Etched

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.

Job Summary

At Etched, talent is our biggest advantage. We believe exceptional teams are the single biggest driver of outsized outcomes. As we scale, we’re looking for a Talent Operations Lead to operate at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and systems.

You’ll report directly to the Head of Talent and help build the operating infrastructure behind one of the fastest-scaling teams in technology. You’ll develop models and analytics that inform how we allocate recruiting resources, measure talent density, and make hiring decisions.

This is a high-visibility role with significant ownership. The best candidate will combine the analytical toolkit of a strong operator with development experience: someone equally comfortable analyzing a problem in SQL or Python, building an executive dashboard, and turning a scrappy internal tool into a durable platform. You’ll work on complex, cross-functional problems, influence leadership decisions, and directly shape how Etched scales its team.

Key Responsibilities

- Partner closely with the Head of Talent to identify bottlenecks, set priorities, and build systems that increase the leverage of the broader talent organization.

- Jump into high-impact problems wherever needed, from candidate research and systems audits to recruiting experiments and team operations.

- Build models, analytics, and dashboards that inform talent strategy and leadership decision-making.

- Design and build internal tools and scalable platforms that automate workflows and turn recruiting data into actionable insights.

- Own talent data infrastructure and reporting, from underlying data models through leadership-facing interfaces.

- Create clear, compelling materials for leadership updates, board decks, and strategic recruiting initiatives.

- Drive people analytics initiatives and high-priority special projects.

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

- Strong analytical skills across Excel/Google Sheets, SQL, and/or Python.

- High EQ, low ego, and a willingness to move between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.

- Bias for action, intellectual curiosity, and comfort operating in ambiguity.

- Ability to take analytics beyond dashboarding and translate prototypes into scalable, maintainable systems.

- Exceptional ability to communicate analysis clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

- Experience in talent, people analytics, management consulting, strategy & operations, or another high-intensity operating environment.

- Building internal data platforms, workflow automation, or analytics products from scratch.

- Working with modern data and application stacks, APIs, and AI-enabled developer tools.

Who you are

- A technical, analytically minded operator who wants to own problems end-to-end.

- Equally comfortable building the analysis, presenting the recommendation, and shipping the system behind it.

- Excited to turn one-off dashboards and manual workflows into products that scale across an organization.

- Energized by high standards, ambitious goals, and working alongside exceptional teammates.

Why Etched

At Etched, we are building the world’s most advanced AI inference hardware. We believe in the power of small, exceptional teams and in creating an environment where A-players can do the best work of their careers. This role offers a rare chance to be at the center of that mission, shaping the systems and processes that will scale Etched into the future.

Benefits

- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage

- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits

- Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office

- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)

- Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more

- Daily lunch and dinner in our office

- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. 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.