General Ledger Accountant, Etched
Close
$120-200k
Plus Significant Equity
More information about location
Office located in San Jose, CA
Designing specialised chips for language model inference
Open for applications
Designing specialised chips for language model inference
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$120-200k
Plus Significant 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
- Experience owning close processes end-to-end in a fast-paced environment
- Proficiency with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or equivalent; comfort with scaling systems in a high-growth environment
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience
- CPA or equivalent experience required
- Strong understanding of US GAAP and technical accounting concepts
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills to work effectively across departments
What the job involves
- We're hiring a General Ledger Accountant, Close to own critical elements of our month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close and support scalable close process. This is a hands-on role focused on the accuracy and integrity of the general ledger, ensuring financial results are complete, timely, and properly supported
- You'll be close to the details - owning core close deliverables - while also helping design systems and workflows that scale as the company grows. This role is well-suited for someone who enjoys the rigor of technical close work, understands how transactional activity flows through to the financial statements, and wants real ownership over a critical financial function
- As a GL Accountant, you'll manage day-to-day ledger activities while helping build the controls and processes that scale with us. You'll work cross-functionally with AP, AR, Inventory, and Payroll teams to support accurate, reliable financial reporting
- Close Ownership: Own and lead core components of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial results and strong internal controls over the general ledger:
- Maintain and manage the close calendar, coordinating tasks and deadlines across accounting and cross-functional teams
- Prepare, post and/or review journal entries, including accruals, prepaids, amortization schedules, fixed assets/depreciation, leases, and intercompany transactions
- Perform balance sheet account reconciliations for assigned accounts and resolve reconciling items timely
- Prepare flux analysis for balance sheet and P&L accounts, investigating and explaining period-over-period variances
- Ensure subledgers (AP, AR, payroll, fixed assets) tie out to the general ledger each period
- Review trial balance for unusual or unsupported entries prior to close finalization
- Internal Control: Support close-related internal control processes by ensuring proper documentation, approvals, transaction accuracy, and record retention in accordance with company policies:
- Maintain organized close documentation (workpapers, reconciliations, journal entry support) to support internal reviews and audits
- Ensure journal entries have proper approval, supporting documentation, and adherence to segregation-of-duties policies
- Maintain up-to-date process documentation and desktop procedures for close workflows
- Support periodic internal control reviews, walkthroughs, and testing
- Support external audit and internal audit requests, including preparation of PBC (prepared-by-client) items
- Systems & Scaling: Support the continued scaling of close operations by maintaining system accuracy, improving process efficiency, and ensuring GL infrastructure can support company growth across entities and jurisdictions:
- Maintain accurate configuration of chart of accounts, entities, segments, and classes within the ERP
- Support integration between the ERP, subledgers, and other connected financial systems
- Support system setup for new entities, currencies, and jurisdictions as the company expands
- Standardize close processes and checklists to reduce manual intervention and close timeline
- Identify and implement automation opportunities within the close cycle
- Cross-Functional Reporting: Support accurate financial statements and management reporting in accordance with US GAAP, including technical accounting for non-routine or complex transactions, ensuring accurate data flows into the GL through close partnership with AP, AR, Inventory, and Payroll:
- Own preparing monthly and quarterly financial statement packages
- Support operationalizing technical accounting memos on non-routine or complex transactions
- Own multi-entity consolidations and intercompany eliminations
- Support operationalizing revenue recognition, lease accounting, and other technical accounting areas as applicable
- Partner with AP, AR, Inventory, and Payroll teams to ensure accurate, reconciled handoffs into the GL and resolve cross-departmental discrepancies
- Support ad hoc data requests, schedules, and analysis for Finance leadership and external reporting
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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