Strategic Buyer
External
Etched · San JosePrepare for this interview
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Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day purchasing across indirect and NPI spend, converting internal requests into RFQs, quotes, requisitions, and complete, accurate POs (vendor, location, quantity, price, item description, delivery address, and requester context).
- Track open orders through delivery and communicate PO status clearly to requesters, Supply Chain, Logistics, AP, and Engineering.
- Review quotes for price, lead time, MOQ, payment and shipping terms, and commercial accuracy; negotiate pricing, expedite fees, and shipping costs.
- Manage supplier relationships, setting clear expectations on documentation, PO requirements, shipment timing, and payment terms.
- Partner with AP and Finance on vendor setup, invoice submission, payment requirements, and PO/invoice discrepancies.
- Improve procurement workflows, trackers, templates, and handoffs as Etched scales.
- You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)
- 3-5 years in procurement, purchasing, supply chain, NPI operations, manufacturing operations, or hardware startup operations.
- Hands-on experience issuing and tracking POs, managing RFQs, negotiating with suppliers, and coordinating deliveries across indirect and technical/NPI categories.
- Experience with ERP/procurement tools such as NetSuite, Mesh, SAP, or Ramp.
- Familiarity with vendor onboarding, NDAs, W-9s, banking forms, and invoice/payment workflows.
- Strong written communication with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Commercial instincts - able to challenge pricing, compare against prior buys, and flag quotes that don't add up.
- Strong follow-through: tracks many small open loops and closes them without reminders.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving quickly without perfect inputs.
- High ownership, low ego, and a bias toward action.
- Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications)
- Experience in hardware, semiconductors, electronics, manufacturing, data center infrastructure, or contract manufacturing.
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Additional Information
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 highly organized operator to build the procurement and operations backbone behind our hardware programs. You'll work with engineering, ops, finance, facilities, and outside suppliers to source critical goods and services, run purchasing workflows, and improve the systems that keep us moving fast. This is a hands-on role for someone who likes owning messy, high-urgency problems and becoming the person all teams trust to get things done - across lab equipment, facilities, engineering services, production support, and business-critical vendors.
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