Facilities Engineering Operations Lead Data Center
Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Etched
Etched co-designs chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems for efficient inference of frontier AI models, targeting throughput, latency, cost, and power efficiency across prefill and decode workloads.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own end-to-end daily data-center operations, including uptime, incident response, and escalations across power, cooling, and white-space systems. You will establish operating procedures, maintenance, monitoring, on-call coverage, and operational reporting. You will manage facility vendors, rack deployments, spares, and site-readiness processes while helping hire facilities technicians and a BMS specialist.
Requirements
- 4–8+ years in critical facilities and data-center operations
- Experience as a Lead or Senior Critical Facilities Engineer or single-site Facilities Manager
- Experience operating production liquid-cooling systems, including CDUs, direct-to-chip cooling, and secondary fluid loops
- Knowledge of data-center electrical distribution, LOTO, arc-flash safety, and NFPA 70E
- Experience writing and drilling SOPs, MOPs, and EOPs
- Experience with change management and maintenance programs
- Experience leading incident response and root-cause analysis
- Experience managing mechanical, electrical, and fire/life-safety vendors
- Knowledge of BMS, DCIM, and power-monitoring systems
Responsibilities
- Own daily data-center operations, uptime, incident response, and escalation for power, cooling, and white-space systems
- Establish SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, change management, maintenance schedules, on-call coverage, and root-cause analysis processes
- Define SLOs and outage-response plans for fleet, rack, and server events
- Operate liquid-cooling systems, including CDUs, secondary loops, water chemistry, filtration, leak detection, and monitoring
- Manage electrical operations, including switchgear, busways, PDUs, load balancing, LOTO, and arc-flash safety
- Manage electrical, mechanical, CDU OEM, and fire/life-safety vendors and contractors
- Implement BMS, DCIM, rack, and CDU monitoring and alarming
- Run rack receiving, staging, installation, commissioning, handoff, decommissioning, and RMA flows
- Track facility-equipment spares and critical-parts inventory
- Report uptime, PUE, incidents, risks, and capacity headroom
- Help hire facilities engineering technicians and a BMS specialist
- Create repeatable processes and site-readiness checklists
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- $500 monthly credit for waiving medical benefits
- $2,000 monthly housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support for moves to San Jose
- Wellness benefits covering fitness and mental health
- Daily lunch and dinner in the office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification