Recruiting Coordinator, Contract to Hire

About Etched

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.

Job Summary

We’re looking for a Recruiting Coordinator who thrives in fast-moving environments and takes pride in making things run smoothly behind the scenes. You’ll be at the center of our hiring engine – owning scheduling, keeping processes tight, and ensuring every candidate and interviewer has a great experience.

This role is for someone who moves quickly, sweats the details, and doesn’t wait to be told what to do. You’re highly organized, calm under pressure, and naturally step in to solve problems before they become issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Own high-volume interview scheduling across multiple teams, balancing competing priorities and tight timelines

• Jump on urgent scheduling changes quickly and keep everything on track without dropping details

• Deliver a high-quality, thoughtful experience for both candidates and interviewers at every touchpoint

• Build strong working relationships with candidates, recruiters, sourcers, hiring managers, and cross-functional partners

• Keep recruiting operations running smoothly through strong organization, communication, and follow-through

• Spot inefficiencies and proactively improve coordination processes as we scale

• Partner with People Ops to support onboarding logistics and maintain clean, accurate data

• Support new hire onboarding programs, including coordinating welcome gifts and shipping onboarding packages

Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)

• 1-2 years of Recruiting Coordinator experience in a fast-paced, high-growth, or tech environment

• High sense of ownership and urgency - you take initiative and follow through

• Low ego, team-first mindset

• Growth mindset and eagerness to continuously improve

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage

  • $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits

• Housing subsidy of $2k per month for those living within walking distance of the office

• Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)

• Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more

• Daily lunch and dinner in our office

How we’re different

Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.

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 and work across disciplines as needed.