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

In one line: the hands-on execution engine of Finance Operations, strong skills in building processes and systems from the ground up -- someone who takes on the high-volume work that keeps Finance running while also working to scale finance functions across the company wherever the team needs it most. Finance Operations is the team that keeps the rails of Etched's finance machine running as the company scales -- the policies, processes, systems, and reporting that let everyone spend, buy, pay, and see the numbers cleanly and fast. Right now that work outpaces the people doing it.

We're hiring someone to take on the high-volume, hands-on execution who will grow into a genuine finance operator capable of standing up new functions from 0 to 1, hiring the team who will own execution of the function, and then passing on the function to move onto the next project. The role is full-time and in person in San Jose, reports to the Finance Operations Lead, and targets a Q3 start; the simplest way to think about it is that this person will be mentored and trained by the current Finance Operations Lead as a founding member of the team to expand the team's bandwidth and allow Finance Operations to keep pace with the scale of company growth. Day to day, this person sits in the middle of nearly everything operational in Finance.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and scale new finance capabilities, including budgeting, executive analytics, inventory processes, reporting, and operational tooling.

• Design, improve, and document finance processes, controls, and policies across procurement, inventory, forecasting, and order-to-cash.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning Finance, Engineering, Operations, People, Legal, Talent, and GTM.

• Own finance systems and automation, including NetSuite integrations, AI tooling, Ramp workflows, and finance service desk operations.

• Support monthly business reviews, vendor reconciliations, and company-wide financial reporting and planning.

• Act as a high-leverage generalist, jumping into new challenges as the company scales and serving as the first point of contact for finance operations.

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

• Early in their career (new grads included), but carries themselves like a founding-team member – low ego, high ownership, high urgency.

• Relentlessly organized; documents processes as second nature.

• Genuinely willing to do the un-glamorous work that makes a function run, then improve it.

• Analytical problem-solver who's comfortable in ambiguity and speed.

• Background in industrial engineering, operations, finance, or business fits naturally.

• Bonus, not required: exposure to an ERP like NetSuite or spend tools like Ramp, comfort with spreadsheets and light analytics/BI, or manufacturing / hardware-ops experience.

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. 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.