People Operations, Data

About Etched

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.

Job Summary

We’re hiring someone to own how data informs decisions about talent, performance, and org design.

This role is closer to business operations than traditional HR. You will define how leaders understand their teams, where the organization is breaking, and what to do about it. The work spans data, systems, and execution. You should be comfortable operating in ambiguity, building structure, and driving changes that stick.

Key Responsibilities

- Own the people data foundation

- Build and maintain data pipelines across HRIS, recruiting, performance, and finance systems

- Create a reliable source of truth for headcount, hiring, productivity, and organizational health

- Ensure reporting and operational data remain accurate and reliable as the company scales

- Identify stale data, workflow gaps, and operational inconsistencies before they impact decision-making

- Drive decision-making through data

- Build dashboards and reporting on hiring, retention, onboarding, org changes, and workforce

- Run monthly and quarterly operational reviews on hiring, retention, and org health

- Use leading indicators to surface issues quickly, quantify impact, and drive to

- Build core people systems

- Design and implement performance management, internal mobility, and workforce planning processes

- Build simple, high-leverage systems that scale without adding overhead

- Lead cross-functional initiatives

- Partner with People, Finance, Recruiting, and Engineering on projects tied to growth and efficiency

- Examples include hiring funnel optimization, org restructuring, and cost versus productivity analysis

- Ship tools and dashboards

- Build internal tools and reporting that leaders use without prompting

- Automate recurring operational work and reduce manual reporting

- Improve operational visibility, execution speed, and workflow reliability across internal systems

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

- 2 to 5 years in people operations, business operations, recruiting operations, analytics, program management, consulting, or similar execution-heavy environments

- Track record of taking ambiguous problems through execution

- Strong technical skills in SQL and at least one of Python or R, plus experience with BI tools

- Ability to work with senior stakeholders and communicate clearly

- High standards for structure and follow-through

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

- Experience with HRIS and recruiting systems such as Rippling and Ashby

- Exposure to organizational design, workforce planning, or compensation systems

- Experience building internal tools, automations, and operational workflows

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

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. 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.