Etched

• Manage and harden security baselines across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud systems, ensuring strong protection while maintaining speed and usability. • Integrate telemetry, logging, tracing, and management of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across the entire environment to provide unified and comprehensive observability into infrastructure and application activity. • Lead vulnerability management, patching, and configuration assurance programs to reduce exposure and maintain a consistent security posture. • Partner with infrastructure, IT, and application teams to strengthen identity, access, and network security through Okta, Google Workspace, and FreeIPA. • Implement and maintain zero-trust network architectures, SASE controls, CASB solutions, and conditional access policies that protect both users and data across environments to ensure full access and full control of our data and IP regardless of location or device. • Operate and enhance security operations tooling, including SIEM, SOAR, and EDR/XDR platforms, to ensure comprehensive monitoring and rapid detection of threats. • Develop and tune detection logic, automation, and playbooks for identifying and responding to threats such as insider activity, lateral movement, and anomalous behavior. • Investigate and respond to security incidents, performing root-cause analysis, containment, and remediation while coordinating with engineering and IT. • Build automation, scripts, AI agents, and integrations that streamline monitoring, alerting, and remediation workflows to improve efficiency and reliability. • Establish metrics, dashboards, and feedback mechanisms to measure detection coverage, response time, and overall security health. • Promote a culture of security awareness and ownership across engineering teams, ensuring that protection and productivity advance together.

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 As we scale, we’re looking for a Talent Sourcer (Supercomputing/ML) to build and own some of the most high-leverage, relationship-driven parts of our recruiting function. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of a company poised to become the next NVIDIA. To maintain our competitive edge as we approach production, we’re expanding our team with a data-driven and inventive technical sourcer. You’ll work closely with recruiters, hiring managers, engineers, and leadership to identify, engage, and build pipelines of world-class technical talent. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-talent-density environments and loves the hunt — especially when it means going beyond traditional sourcing channels to uncover exceptional engineers before anyone else does. Key Responsibilities Own top-of-funnel sourcing strategy across priority engineering roles in supercomputing, ML systems, firmware, networking, and distributed systems Build and maintain high-quality talent pipelines through outbound sourcing, referrals, events, research, and creative outreach Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to deeply understand role requirements, ideal profiles, and search strategy Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications) Have 3+ years of experience sourcing technical talent in highly competitive markets Have deep experience sourcing software, systems, infrastructure, or hardware engineers Are highly resourceful and love finding exceptional candidates beyond obvious platforms Thrive in ambiguity and enjoy building sourcing engines from scratch Are detail-oriented, organized, and operationally strong Care deeply about candidate experience and employer brand Love working in high-velocity environments with extremely high hiring bars Experience sourcing in AI, supercomputing, semiconductor, or hardware domains A track record of building pipelines for highly niche or emerging technical fields Strong technical curiosity and ability to quickly learn new domains 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 + dinner in our office 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.