Materials Program Manager

About Etched

Etched is building AI chips that are hard-coded for individual model architectures. Our first product (Sohu) only supports transformers, but has an order of magnitude more throughput and lower 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.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Materials Program Manager (MPM) to join our Supply Chain team in the Bay Area. You will lead and manage end-to-end materials readiness and execution for critical hardware components in our systems. This role 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 L11 Servers & Racks.
• Drive alignment with Bay Area–based engineering, operations, and manufacturing partners to ensure production material readiness and delivery schedules.
• Own material clear-to-build across PCBs, interposers, electronics, and mechanical assemblies.
• Monitor and drive supplier execution across NPI and ramp phases to support schedules and enable revenue during sustained production.
• Lead materials status reviews, providing clear updates, risks, and recovery plans to stakeholders.
• 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.
• A proven 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

• 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 managing server-level components in high-volume environments.
• Experience working directly with Tier 1 contract manufacturers and component suppliers.
• Full medical, dental, and vision packages, with generous premium coverage
• Housing subsidy of $2,000/month for those living within walking distance of the office
• Daily lunch and dinner in our office
• Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)

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 (Santana Row), 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.