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Head of Datacenter Delivery

Etched · San Jose · On-site

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About Etched

Co-designed chips, racks, and software to push the pareto frontier to best-in-class throughput and interactivity. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.

About the role

Stay deeply connected to product milestones, production ramps, and bring-up schedules. Translate these into power and capacity forecasts, site selection requirements, and phased delivery plans. Build a strong sourcing pipeline for sites, power, and equipment. Develop relationships across GPU clouds, datacenter brokers and operators, developers, landlords, utilities, and equipment suppliers to uncover opportunities early. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • A track record of delivering large-scale datacenters or similarly complex, power-intensive facilities from site-selection through commissioning and operational handover
  • An established network across the datacenter ecosystem and the ability to turn relationships into actionable site, power, and equipment opportunities
  • Strong technical judgment across power, cooling, networking, and construction, including the ability to evaluate designs, equipment alternatives, and realistic delivery timelines
  • Experience leading teams and managing construction budgets, contractors, and delivery partners against demanding schedules
  • The ability to understand a hardware roadmap deeply enough to anticipate infrastructure needs and adapt plans as requirements change
  • A hands-on, resourceful approach: you challenge assumptions, find practical alternatives, and drive execution across engineering, real estate, construction, and operations
More about this role

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 are looking for a Head of Datacenter Delivery to build Etched’s turnkey compute capability: sourcing sites and power, building out datacenters, installing our racks, and delivering fully operational facilities ready for sale. You will also own our internal datacenter and lab buildouts, translating the product roadmap into power forecasts, sourcing priorities, and construction schedules. This is a hands-on leadership role: success means delivering working compute, not just securing space and power.

Stay deeply connected to product milestones, production ramps, and bring-up schedules. Translate these into power and capacity forecasts, site selection requirements, and phased delivery plans.

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