Etched
Facilities Engineering Operations Lead, Data Center
San Jose · Senior
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About the role
- Etched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters.
- As our Facilities Engineering Operations Lead, you will own day-to-day operations of our AI data center: uptime, incident response, and escalation across power, cooling, and the white space.
- You'll be the first hire in this function and will build the operating system from scratch, including procedures, maintenance programs, on-call, and alarming, then turn it into the playbook we copy to every site that follows.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day data center operations end to end: uptime, incident response, and escalation for power, cooling, and the white space.
- Build the operating system from scratch: SOPs, MOPs, and EOPs
- Own electrical operations, including switchgear, busway and PDUs, power connector topology, load balancing across racks, and lockout/tagout (LOTO) and arc-flash safety.
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
Requirements
- Strong candidates may also have experience with
Nice to have
- Define SLOs and response plans for outage events at the fleet, rack, and server level.
- Run the liquid cooling plant for high-density racks, including CDUs, secondary fluid loops, water chemistry and filtration, leak detection, and flow and inlet-temperature monitoring.
- Stand up monitoring and alarming with engineering across BMS/DCIM and rack and CDU telemetry, so problems reach the right person within minutes, not hours.
- Track spares and critical parts inventory for facility equipment.
- Report operational metrics to leadership, including uptime, PUE, incidents, open risks, and capacity headroom.
- Hands-on experience operating liquid cooling in production (CDUs, direct-to-chip / DLC, secondary fluid loops)
- Deep working knowledge of data center electrical distribution (switchgear, UPS, busway, PDUs) and safe work practices (LOTO, arc flash, NFPA 70E)
- Experience writing and drilling SOPs, MOPs, and EOPs, and running change management and maintenance programs
Compensation
- $200,000 - $300,000, plus equity
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- $200,000 - $300,000, plus equity
- shift coverage and on-call
Company info
- We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system.
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