Early Career Recruiter

Etched; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Housing subsidy

Relocation support

Wellness benefits

Daily meals

Unlimited compute budget

Job summary

Etched.ai is hiring to own its internship program end-to-end, spanning recruiting across RTL and firmware, GTM and finance, and all onboarding steps. You will report to the Head of Talent and interact with executives to shape summer experiences and return offers.

The role requires building programs that attract and retain interns, managing hundreds of candidates in parallel, and maintaining a high standard of candidate experience in a fast-paced, in-person environment at our San Jose office.

Qualifications

• Candidates able to assess experience over credentials
• Experience handling large pools of applicants
• Strong interpersonal skills for candidate interactions
• Ability to manage multiple processes in parallel
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and changing priorities

Responsibilities

• Own internship program end-to-end: planning, sourcing, screening, interviews, offers, onboarding
• Hire interns across RTL, firmware, GTM, and finance teams
• Run high-volume pipelines without lowering screening standards
• Design intern programming that encourages return interns
• Track conversion, offer acceptance, and return-offer rates

Skills

Talent evaluation

Screening efficiency

Candidate experience

Ambiguity tolerance

High-volume hiring

Job description

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. 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 Etched’s internship program end to end, across every technical and non-technical team. You’ll decide where we recruit, who we hire, what their summer looks like, and how many come back. You will be reporting directly to the Head of Talent and other executives at the company.

What You’ll Do

• Own the internship program end to end: headcount planning, sourcing, screening, interviews, offers, onboarding, and return offers




• Hire interns across every team, from RTL and firmware to GTM and finance




• Run high-volume pipelines without lowering the bar




• Design intern programming that makes interns want to come back




• Track conversion, offer acceptance, and return-offer rates

You may be a good fit if you

• Have built something from zero and can point to the results




• Judge talent by what people have done, not their credentials




• Can explain to a sophomore why transformer-specific silicon matters




• Can run hundreds of candidates in parallel without letting any of them wait




• Thrive in ambiguity and care deeply about candidate experience

Nice-to-have

• Experience running campus recruiting or an internship program




• Familiarity with the AI or semiconductor talent landscape




• Strong technical background (engineering, CS, or hands-on technical work)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage

  
  
  
  

  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits

  
  
  
  



• Housing subsidy of $2.5k 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




• 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. 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.