Core Operations
About the job
- Several years of experience in high-ownership, high-pressure roles within finance, consulting, or startup environments.
- Steering Expertise: Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent high-impact projects from inception to completion. Skilled in driving cross-functional alignment, ensuring accountability, and delivering results.
- Leadership & Communication: Ability to represent leadership, confidently make critical decisions on their behalf, and communicate information at the level of leadership.
- Adaptability & Time Management: Comfortable with ambiguity and working within a rapidly changing environment with ever shifting priorities.
- Strategic & Data-Driven: Expertise in designing and developing reports to elucidate metrics that measure success and drive decisions.
- Presentation & Analytical Skills: Ability to quickly synthesize information, create compelling presentations, and parse complex data with custom spreadsheets.
- Lead Mission-Critical Initiatives: Design, prioritize, and drive the execution of high-priority, high-scope projects, ensuring measurable outcomes that align with the company’s objectives.
- Facilitate Leadership Decision-Making: Provide strategic insights and actionable recommendations to the leadership team through rigorous data analysis, identifying process gaps, optimizing workflows, and driving performance improvements across the business.
- Own Stakeholder Communication: Develop and deliver high-impact materials for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clarity, alignment, and transparency across all levels. Foster a shared internal understanding of the company’s goals and objectives.
- Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a key liaison between the executive team and departments across the organization, aligning teams on strategic initiatives, tracking progress, and ensuring timely, high-quality execution of key projects. Identify opportunities to elevate team capabilities and implement tools that increase productivity and scalability across the organization.
- Establish Operational Metrics: Work with leadership to set and track key performance indicators (KPIs), monitoring organizational performance and diagnosing opportunities for optimization to drive operational excellence and business impact.
- Technical Background: Proven experience or formal education in computer science, electrical engineering, artificial intelligence, or a related field.
- Industry Expertise: Deep knowledge of the AI ecosystem, including emerging trends, cutting-edge technologies, and industry innovations.
- Startup Acumen: Strong understanding of startup stock, cap table, finance, and legal mechanics.
About the company
Etched designs and sells hardware to run frontier AI models, pairing chips, racks, software and manufacturing into frontier inference clusters. Its main product is Sohu, an ASIC based on transformer architecture, deployed as a rack-scale system rather than a single card. The system uses Low Voltage Inference to increase compute density and Cluster Scale Memory, a shared low-latency memory pool with a proprietary interconnect and a mix of HBM and SRAM, to support large mixture-of-experts models and long contexts. It targets AI labs, cloud providers, hyperscalers, and other organizations running very large models, and is vertically integrated across chip design, packaging, thermal, and system engineering to scale toward gigawatt-class capacity, with its own Taiwan fabrication and San Jose prototyping facilities.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$1.6B
Headquarters
San Jose, California
Founded
2022
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation on August 18, 2026.
- Etched says it has more than $1 billion in customer contracts.
- Jane Street reported early results were strong and is deploying Etched in production.
What critics are saying
- Jane Street is Etched’s first customer, creating concentrated revenue and credibility risk.
- Etched must scale from one shipped rack to gigawatt production without quality failures.
- Nvidia and Groq keep advancing inference hardware, threatening Etched’s economics and design moat.
What makes Etched unique
- Etched shipped its first rack to Jane Street in August 2026, proving deployment.
- Etched combines custom chips, racks, software, and manufacturing for inference clusters.
- About 15% of Etched employees came from Nvidia, bringing rare datacenter-systems expertise.
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Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Flexible Work Hours
Remote Work Options
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave
Paid Holidays
Hybrid Work Options
Stock Options
Company Equity
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Performance Bonus
Profit Sharing
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Relocation Assistance
Employee Referral Bonus
Parental Leave
Family Planning Benefits
Fertility Treatment Support
Adoption Assistance
Childcare Support
Elder Care Support
Wellness Program
Mental Health Support
Gym Membership
Phone/Internet Stipend
Home Office Stipend
Conference Attendance Budget
Professional Development Budget
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6 month growth
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↑ 12%Top funding rounds week of August 17th. Spacecom and Poolside each raised $1B this past week as investors bet big on AI infrastructure and satellite internet. See the full breakdown here. 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Rowe Price Associates. * 04 Etched.ai Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Consumer Electronics - California $700MEquity Etched.ai, an AI hardware startup, raised $700 million in a financing at a $21 billion valuation led by Jane Street, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Tiger Global, Bain Capital Ventures, Neo, Stripes, Primary, Positive Sum, Diffusion, Argo, and Blackstone. * 05 Higgsfield Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Content and Publishing - California $400MSeries B Higgsfield, an AI-native multimedia content creation platform, raised $400 million in a Series B at a $5.4 billion valuation led by DST Global with participation from Tribe Capital, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Smash Capital, Fifth Wall, Valor Capital, Intel Capital, Liberty Global Tech Ventures, Mirae Asset Capital, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures, and existing investors including Accel, Menlo Ventures, AI Capital Partners, GFT Ventures, Capra Ventures, BAM Corner Point and BroadLight Capital. * 06 ALEX Administrative Services - 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Data and Analytics - California $115MEquity Matic, a home robotics company, raised $115 million from investors including Mayfield, NFX, True Ventures, Nat Friedman, Andreessen Horowitz, BoxGroup, Stripe, SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures, Abstract Ventures and Playground Global * 19 Velaura AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Blockchain and Cryptocurrency - California $110MSeries A Velaura AI, a semiconductor company commercializing ultra-low-power computing for AI, raised $110 million in a Series A at a valuation exceeding $1 billion led by Seligman Ventures with participation from Capricorn Investment Group, Prosperity7 Ventures, Mayfield, Maverick Silicon, MARA, Premji Invest, Samsung Catalyst Fund and StepStone Group. * 20 Callosum Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - England $100MSeed Callosum, a UK AI infrastructure startup, raised $100 million in a seed round led by Atomico with participation from Plural, DCVC, Sovereign AI and angel investors.
Investor Michael Burry has identified chip startup Etched as serious competition for Nvidia. The company, founded in 2022 by three 24-year-old Harvard dropouts, recently raised $700 million in a funding round led by Jane Street, valuing it at $21 billion. Etched has now raised nearly $2 billion total. The startup focuses on AI inference chips and claims it took just 44 days to run inference workloads after receiving test chips from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, a process typically taking six months or more. Roughly 15% of Etched's 400 employees previously worked at Nvidia, including 23-year veteran Brian Loiler. Burry, known for his bearish stance on Nvidia, highlighted Etched's rapid development in a post on X, citing a Wall Street Journal report on the startup's progress.
Etched, founded by Harvard dropouts, has its own in-office data center and has signed quant-trading firm Jane Street as its first customer.
Etched, a hardware startup founded by Harvard students in 2022, has raised $300 million in a Series C round at a $10 billion pre-money valuation. Primary Venture Partners led the investment, with participation from Jane Street, Andreessen Horowitz, Diffusion, and SK Hynix. The company builds inference-specific chips and cluster-scale systems for AI models. Etched earlier this year taped out its first generation chip at TSMC, becoming the first post-ChatGPT-era company with a successful full-reticle A0 chip tape-out on TSMC's leading-edge nodes. The company's technology focuses on improving throughput and latency through innovations including low voltage inference and cluster-scale memory. Etched plans to begin shipping its products in 2026, with early customers already testing the system.
Etched, an AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has raised $300 million in Series C funding at a $10.3 billion valuation. The round was led by Sequoia, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, SK Hynix, Jane Street, and Diffusion Capital. The company has doubled its valuation from $5 billion in December. Last month, Etched announced it had successfully manufactured its chips and booked $1 billion in orders. Etched designs systems specifically for AI inference, creating two new components: a prefill chip using low-voltage technology and a cluster scale memory system. The company aims to deliver faster speeds at lower costs. Despite initial skepticism, Etched has attracted prominent investors including Peter Thiel, Andrej Karpathy, and Geoffrey Hinton through private demos. The startup now employs 400 people and operates a 2 megawatt data centre.