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Technical Recruiter (Entry Level)

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San JoseFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Entry-level Technical Recruiter role at Etched, focused on owning end-to-end recruitment in a fast-paced, in-person environment in San Jose. Mentorship, ownership of requisitions, and exposure to senior leadership. Opportunity to shape recruiting processes and work closely with hiring managers in a frontier AI hardware company.

Responsibilities

  • Own your own requisitions end-to-end - sourcing, screening, coordinating, closing
  • Hunt candidates in non-traditional places (GitHub, arXiv preprints, Apache mailing lists, niche Discord servers, conference speaker lists or phd scraping)
  • Run structured interview coordination and lead candidate debriefs alongside hiring managers
  • Work directly with the lead recruiters on offer strategy and closing
  • Help us build our recruiting systems and processes from the ground up - your fingerprints will be on how we hire

Qualifications

  • 0–2 years of recruiting, sales, sourcing, or talent coordination experience (or demonstrated self-taught work)
  • Strong extracurricular or project track record
  • Genuine curiosity about AI, hardware, or deep tech
  • Ability to move fast, figure things out, and seek help when needed
  • Low ego and high drive with outcome-focused mindset
  • Ability to have real conversations with technical people without faking it
  • Coachable and able to use feedback effectively

Skills

Required:End-to-end recruitmentSourcing unconventional channelsInterview coordinationOffer strategyCommunication with technical stakeholders

Benefits

  • 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)
  • Wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
  • Daily lunch + dinner in the office
  • Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Etched is building frontier inference clusters: co-designs chips, racks, software and manufacturing to push the pareto frontier for AI hardware.

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