Systems Engineer, Etched
Finance & Operations
$120-220k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in San Jose, CA
Designing specialised chips for language model inference
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Designing specialised chips for language model inference
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-220k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in San Jose, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create the world’s most powerful servers for transformer inference.
Role
Who you are
- 2–5 years of experience with a strong record of ownership and execution
- Ability to build custom integrations and connect systems where APIs are not well defined
- Background in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or Data Science
- Experience working with hardware, manufacturing, logistics, or other physical systems
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript, with familiarity in Python
- Strong programming skills in Python; familiarity with JavaScript and JSON
- Experience building or owning production systems end to end
- Comfort acting as both system architect and hands-on developer
- Ability to work closely with Finance, Accounting, and Infrastructure teams
- High autonomy, strong business judgment, and the ability to operate beyond task execution
What the job involves
- As Etched scales from R&D into global manufacturing and deployment, the complexity of our financial and operational systems is increasing rapidly
- We are hiring a hands-on engineer to own and evolve the technical backbone of our financial systems
- Starting with ERP and expanding into data infrastructure that connects finance with manufacturing, logistics, and operations, this is a critical role that will enable Etched to scale
- You will be the primary technical owner of our ERP and financial data flows, responsible for architecture, implementation, and long-term scalability
- In the short term, this role is heavily ERP-focused; over time, it expands into broader data engineering and infrastructure ownership
- This is not a consulting or governance role
- You will own these systems end to end - designing them, building them, and ensuring scalability
- Serve as the primary technical owner of Etched’s ERP and adjacent financial systems
- Drive architecture, implementation, and ongoing maintenance
- Act as the main PM and hands-on developer for NetSuite initiatives
- Design and stand up a financial data lake or warehouse
- Create clean, well-structured datasets for financial analysis and forecasting
- Ensure data integrity, traceability, and correctness across systems
- Build integrations across manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and reverse logistics
- Model real-world physical processes accurately in software
- Ensure financial data reflects operational reality
- Architect lightweight, scalable systems and build them yourself
- Eliminate manual workflows through automation
- Partner with consultants on specialized projects while remaining the internal owner
Our take
With AI developing rapidly, the chips that power them are doing so too. The computing requirements of technologies such as Chat GPT will increasingly require customised, hard-wired chips called ASICS, designed specially for the execution of AI models. Whilst GPUs are currently used for AI computing, Etched is making a bet on AI-hardwired chips becoming the predominant powering force of AI.
It’s a gamble, the founders themselves know that if transformers become obsolete, so will their AI-powering product. The SOHU chip that Etched builds differs from GPUs in that it has the AI architecture etched into the chip itself. General Processing Units are “general” and costly, so Etched is betting on specialised transformers taking their place in the near future.
Investors are drawn to Etched’s boldness. The 2022-founded company achieved $120 million in Series A funding just two years into its life, and received a further $500 million at the start of 2026. Etched plans to use this to amp up its competition with GPU company Nvidia, and claims to be 20 times faster than the latter’s AI-powered general processor - and significantly less costly too. Time will tell if Etched’s exciting and potentially revolutionary bet on tailored AI chips and transformers pays off.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2026
$500m
LATE VC
Jun 2024
$120m
SERIES A
Total funding: $625.4m
Company benefits
- Competitive Salary and Equity - We offer a competitive salary and equity package that aligns with industry standards
- Benefits - Your wellbeing is important to us. We offer unlimited PTO, life insurance, and a 401(k)
- Full Insurance Coverage - Our insurance includes full medical, dental, and vision with 100% of premium covered
Company HQ
Horace Mann and SJSU, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Robert Wachen
(Co-Founder & President)Also the Co-Founder of Prod and Mentor Labs, Birthday Cakes 4 Free Maryland and Generate Sales Online.
Gavin Uberti
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Software Engineer at OctoML, Algorithms and BAckend Engineer at Coursedog and was a Software Engineer Intern at Xnor.ai.
Chris Zhu
(Co-Founder)Was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard and a Software Engineering Intern at Amazon and AvantStay. Was an Analyst at Harvard Undergraduate Capital Partners.
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