About Etched

Etched is building AI chips that are hard-coded for individual model architectures. Our first product (Sohu) only supports transformers, but has an order of magnitude more throughput and lower 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.

Job Summary

As Etched scales global deployments of our transformer inference systems, we are seeking an experienced Global Supply Manager to own sourcing and supplier strategy for power delivery, thermal solutions, and system-level networking components.

This role will be responsible for building and managing Etched’s global supply base for power supplies, power distribution, cooling solutions, and system interconnect — ensuring reliable, efficient, and scalable infrastructure to support high-density AI systems at scale. This is a strategic, cross-functional role working closely with hardware engineering, datacenter systems, and manufacturing operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for power, thermal, and networking systems, including PSUs, VRMs, cooling assemblies, heat exchangers, and interconnects

• Build and manage supplier relationships to ensure performance, quality, capacity, and compliance with system requirements

• Negotiate commercial terms to optimize cost, availability, and long-term scalability

• Partner with Hardware and Systems Engineering to qualify suppliers, technologies, and designs

• Support system-level tradeoffs across power efficiency, thermal performance, reliability, and cost

• Drive cost modeling, should-cost analysis, and total cost of ownership evaluations

• Identify and mitigate risks related to capacity, component constraints, energy efficiency regulations, and regional supply concentration

• Align sourcing execution with program schedules, datacenter deployment plans, and ramp timelines

• Present sourcing strategies and system-level supply risks to executive leadership
  

You may be a good fit if you have

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field

• 7+ years of experience sourcing power, thermal, or networking hardware for servers, datacenters, or high-performance systems

• Strong understanding of power delivery, thermal management, and system-level networking requirements

• Experience managing suppliers of electromechanical and system-level components

• Ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and supplier capabilities alongside engineering teams

• Strong commercial negotiation and supplier management skills

• Proven ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced hardware environment

• Experience sourcing across Asia, North America, and Europe
  

Strong candidates may also have experience with

• High-density AI or HPC system power and cooling design

• Liquid cooling, advanced air cooling, or hybrid thermal solutions

• Energy efficiency and reliability standards for datacenter hardware

• Scaling infrastructure supply for global deployments
  

Benefits

• Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with generous premium coverage

• Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office

• Daily lunch and dinner in our office

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

How we’re different

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 (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 as needed.