Technical Facilities Project Manager

Job Description

Job Description

About Etched

Etched is building the world’s first AI inference system purpose-built for transformers - delivering over 10x higher performance and dramatically lower cost and latency than a B200. With Etched ASICs, you can build products that would be impossible with GPUs, like real-time video generation models and extremely deep & parallel chain-of-thought reasoning agents. 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

The technical facilities project manager will own the design, planning, delivery and operations of technical infrastructure for Etched facilities. This position will be responsible for the execution and project management of infrastructure projects to facilitate test and development from chip to data center. The right candidate brings deep project management experience with a track record of success in high velocity projects for critical facilities.

The facilities project manager will supervise and drive end to end project delivery. This will include project requirements development, BOD/SOW creation, vendor engagement and procurement, design, commissioning, and operational hand over for etched technical facilities projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Project management and oversight of construction activities for new builds and retrofit projects

• Ownership of project scope, timeline and budget

• Continuous drive on project cost reduction and shorter project timelines

• Providing end to end construction management for a wide array of infrastructure projects for facilitation of high performing lab and rack facility support

• Constructability reviews for electrical, mechanical, and building designs associated with the construction of new lab and rack support spaces and the optimization of existing spaces

• Drive the creation of project scope and equipment requirements, assisting with the proposals and capital requests and planning

• Total project quality including assisting with commissioning and technical operations hand over

• Develop and issue the RFI/RFQ process for vendor engagement

• Ability to manage concurrent projects with competing prioritization

• Travel to multiple sites and facilities for constructability and operational audits or new and existing operational facilities

• Own the management of design and project implementation for new facilities and retrofit projects

• Interface with internal and external stakeholders to ensure designs facilitate performance and availability for product development teams

• Work on multiple project in multiple geographic regions

• Support the development of SOPs and MOPs for all critical systems

• Author and manage work orders as needed; maintain spare parts and consumables inventory

You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)

• 5+ years of experience in design and construction management

• Bachelors degree in Construction Management or related field

• Direct Experience with Critical Facility Projects

• Experience in reading/interpreting construction drawings from all disciplines

• Experience with new and retrofit projects

• Experience in internal and external stakeholder management

• Experience researching new designs, technologies and construction methods

• Demonstrated experience with the design, construction, operation or maintenance of mission critical facilities (data center or high tech lab preferred)

• Knowledge of Local and Regional Building Codes

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

• Masters Degree in Construction Management or related field

• Project Management Certification (PMI)

• Mission Critical Commissioning Experience

• Deep understanding of mission critical MEP equipment and design strategies

• Professional Engineer License

• Vendor or project management experience in a facilities design and operations context

• Reliability testing or commissioning experience

• Plant or facility management exposure

• OSHA 30 trained and current

• NFPA70E trained and current

• Target Backgrounds Strong candidates may come from roles such as: GC Senior PM, Engineering Consultant PM, Data Center/Critical Facility Manager or Project Manager in environments such as:

  • Data centers / colocation facilities

  • Biotech / pharmaceutical / life sciences facilities

  • Semiconductor or high-tech manufacturing / fab

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 think most of the progress in the AI field has come from using more FLOPs to train and run models, and the best way to get more FLOPs is to build model-specific hardware. Larger and larger training runs encourage companies to consolidate around fewer model architectures, which creates a market for single-model ASICs.

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.