Best suited to senior supply chain professionals with expertise in electronics and mechanical assemblies, working closely with Taiwan-based manufacturing partners.
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Original posting from Etched via Ashby
About Etched
Etched is building the world’s first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents. 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 seeking a Materials Program Manager (MPM) to join our Supply Chain team. You’ll lead and manage end-to-end materials readiness and execution for critical hardware components in our systems. These roles will interface with engineering, operations, and manufacturing partners to ensure material availability, drive supply chain strategy, and support ramp planning.
Key responsibilities
- Serve as the single-threaded owner for material lifecycle management, from NPI through ramp to sustaining production for both customized and off-the-shelf components for L10 Server and L6 PCBA.
- Work closely with Taiwan-based JDM to align production material readiness and delivery schedules.
- Own material clear-to-build across PCBs, interposers, electronics and mechanicals.
- Monitor and drive supplier execution across NPI and ramp phases to support NPI schedule & revenue in sustained production.
- Drive materials status reviews, provide clear updates, risks, and recovery plans.
- Manage supplier relationships in collaboration with sourcing and procurement teams.
- Coordinate across hardware engineering, logistics, and suppliers to support pre-production builds and EVT/DVT/PVT milestones.
You may be a good fit if you have
- 8+ years of experience in materials program management or supply chain operations, ideally in datacenter, server, or complex electromechanical systems.
- Track record of driving cross-functional hardware programs from concept to production.
- Strong understanding of electronics, mechanical assemblies, and silicon manufacturing supply chains.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)
- Prior experience with NPI material management in high-growth or startup environments.
- Familiarity with PLM systems (e.g., Teamcenter ) and MRP/ERP platforms (e.g., NetSuite, SAP).
- Proven experience on managing server level components in high volume.
- Experience working directly with Tier 1 contract manufacturers and component suppliers.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation packages, including generous equity packages
- Comprehensive insurance coverage and other top-of-market benefits
How we’re different
Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models, and the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model-specific hardware. Larger and larger training runs encourage companies to consolidate around fewer model architectures, which creates a market for single-model ASICs.
We are a fully in-person team in San Jose and Taipei, 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 as needed.
Source: Etched careers (Ashby)