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 Etched is hiring a Factory Manufacturing Engineer based in Taiwan to lead on-the-ground execution at our L10 contract manufacturer. You will be the in-factory owner of daily manufacturing performance across assembly and system build/test. This role is directly responsible for ensuring that material, processes, and people align to deliver on build schedules, yield, and quality targets.

You will act as the single-threaded execution lead, driving build readiness, managing bottlenecks, escalating issues, and maintaining real-time visibility into factory performance. This is a highly hands-on role for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-volume production environments and enjoys working side-by-side with CM teams to deliver results.

Key Responsibilities

You may be a good fit if you have

• 5+ years of experience in server or complex system manufacturing execution with a factory operations role.
• Proven track record managing day-to-day production at Tier 1 CMs in Taiwan.
• Strong demonstration of familiarity with assembly and test flows
• Bilingual proficiency in Mandarin and English, with excellent communication skills is preferred.
• Ability to work full-time onsite at the L10/L11 factory and travel within Taiwan as needed.
• Hands-on problem solver with a bias for action in fast-moving production environments.

Strong candidates may also have

• Exposure to test station setup, line balancing, or automation deployment at CMs.
• Background in yield management, quality system audits, or continuous improvement projects.
• Electrical Engineering degree preferred or equivalent technical background in ME or IE.

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. 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.