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
We're looking for a highly organized operator to build the procurement and operations backbone behind our hardware programs. You'll work with engineering, ops, finance, facilities, and outside suppliers to source critical goods and services, run purchasing workflows, and improve the systems that keep us moving fast. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 3–5 years in procurement, purchasing, supply chain, NPI operations, manufacturing operations, or hardware startup operations
- Hands-on experience issuing and tracking POs, managing RFQs, negotiating with suppliers, and coordinating deliveries across indirect and technical/NPI categories
- Experience with ERP/procurement tools such as NetSuite, Mesh, SAP, or Ramp
- Familiarity with vendor onboarding, NDAs, W-9s, banking forms, and invoice/payment workflows
- Strong written communication with suppliers and internal stakeholders
- Commercial instincts — able to challenge pricing, compare against prior buys, and flag quotes that don’t add up
More about this role
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.
We're looking for a highly organized operator to build the procurement and operations backbone behind our hardware programs. You'll work with engineering, ops, finance, facilities, and outside suppliers to source critical goods and services, run purchasing workflows, and improve the systems that keep us moving fast.
This is a hands-on role for someone who likes owning messy, high-urgency problems and becoming the person all teams trust to get things done — across lab equipment, facilities, engineering services, production support, and business-critical vendors.
Own day-to-day purchasing across indirect and NPI spend, converting internal requests into RFQs, quotes, requisitions, and complete, accurate POs (vendor, location, quantity, price, item...
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