Technical Recruiter (Entry Level)

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.

Job Summary

This role is for someone early in their career who is hungry to learn and ready to take ownership. You'll be mentored by experienced recruiters and work closely with hiring managers and leadership but you'll also have your own roles to run and candidates to find.

Key Responsibilities

• Own your own requisitions end-to-end - sourcing, screening, coordinating, closing
• Hunt candidates in places most recruiters never look: GitHub, arXiv preprints, Apache mailing lists, niche Discord servers, conference speaker lists or phd scraping
• Run structured interview coordination and lead candidate debriefs alongside hiring managers
• Work directly with the lead recruiters on offer strategy and closing
• Help us build our recruiting systems and processes from the ground up - your fingerprints will be on how we hire

What You'll Get

• Mentorship from experienced recruiters and direct exposure to senior leadership
• A front-row seat at a company building transformative technology
• Real ownership, real responsibility, real growth — fast
• Competitive compensation that reflects your commitment
• Benefits including 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)
• Variety of wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
• Daily lunch + 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.

Career Path

Compensation Range: $80K - $120K