Inventory Manager
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own strategy, control, and execution for contract manufacturer and 3PL inventory operations. You will mitigate excess and obsolete inventory, conduct audits and reconciliations, build inventory-health reporting, and support cost accounting through build validation, invoice checks, and discrepancy resolution.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in supply chain, inventory management, or material program management within electronics manufacturing or big tech.
- Experience managing contract manufacturers and 3PL warehouses, including physical audits, three-way reconciliations, and consigned inventory controls.
- Ability to perform excess and obsolescence root-cause analysis, drive disposition strategies, and build inventory dashboards and KPIs.
Responsibilities
- Review slow-moving and aged inventory to identify excess and obsolescence risks and drive disposition decisions.
- Analyze demand waterfall reports and investigate root causes of excess and obsolescence.
- Mitigate inventory exposure through reallocation, reuse, rework, returns, cancellations, resale, or scrap.
- Coordinate consigned inventory requirements and maintain auditable inventory transaction records.
- Conduct on-site audits and physical counts at contract manufacturer and 3PL sites.
- Lead three-way reconciliations among NetSuite, 3PL records, and contract manufacturer reports.
- Build and maintain inventory dashboards and KPIs.
- Deliver inventory health reports and recommendations to management.
- Partner with Finance on inventory valuation, reserves, write-offs, and audits.
- Validate contract manufacturer build reports, consumption data, invoices, and charges.
- Resolve BOM, cost, scrap, yield, and inventory discrepancies with Cost Accounting and contract manufacturers.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation packages
- Generous equity packages
- Comprehensive insurance coverage
- Other top-of-market benefits