Materials Program Manager (Taiwan)

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 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. 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 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.