Technical Recruiter (Entry Level)

The role

You will own requisitions end-to-end including sourcing, screening, coordinating, and closing. You will hunt candidates in niche places and help build recruiting systems and processes.

What you will do

• Own your own requisitions end-to-end
• Sourcing, screening, coordinating, closing
• Hunt candidates in GitHub, arXiv preprints, Apache mailing lists, niche Discord servers, conference speaker lists or phd scraping
• Run structured interview coordination
• Lead candidate debriefs alongside hiring managers
• Work directly with the lead recruiters on offer strategy and closing
• Help build recruiting systems and processes from the ground up

Required qualifications

• 0–2 years of recruiting, sales, sourcing, or talent coordination experience (or have taught yourself and can show the work)
• Strong interest to grow into this field
• A track record that goes beyond the classroom: clubs, side projects, sports, volunteering, or anything that shows you invest in things you care about
• Genuinely curious about AI, hardware, or deep tech
• Move fast, figure things out, and ask for help when you're stuck
• Low ego and high drive
• Can have real conversations with technical people without faking it
• Are coachable

Benefits

• Mentorship from experienced recruiters and direct exposure to senior leadership
• Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
• $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
• Housing subsidy of $2.5k 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 + dinner in our office
• Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification

About the company

Etched is building hardware for frontier intelligence. They co-design chips, racks, software, and manufacturing to deliver best-in-class throughput and latency across both prefill and decode workloads.