--- title: 'Corporate Paralegal at Etched' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/corporate-paralegal-etched-san-jose-mk5kavcym3hf' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Corporate Paralegal at Etched - **Company:** [Etched](https://feeny.ai/companies/etched) - **Location:** San Jose, CA - **Compensation:** $150k–$200k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-21 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/3f00dfa5-7f63-4dfb-8ef4-4c56307b85d5 ## Job description ## 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 Corporate Paralegal who wants to take ownership of critical legal work at a rapidly scaling company. You'll work closely with our Legal team and leaders across the business on corporate governance, financings and strategic transactions, Board matters, contracts, entity management, and other major company milestones. This is a hands-on role with significant ownership. You'll manage important legal processes and records, coordinate complex workstreams, and build systems that help Legal and the broader company move quickly without sacrificing accuracy. If you're excited by complexity, meticulous about details, and energized by the opportunity to build the legal infrastructure of an ambitious company, we'd love to talk. ## Key Responsibilities - Own and maintain corporate records, minute books, resolutions, written consents, governance materials, and other key legal records. - Support Board and committee processes, including meeting materials, resolutions, minutes, approvals, signatures, and equity plan issuances. - Support financings, strategic transactions, and other major corporate matters by managing diligence requests, data rooms, transaction checklists, signatures, closing documents, and closing binders. - Partner with Legal, Finance, People, executives, outside counsel, and other teams to keep complex legal workstreams moving. - Maintain subsidiary and entity records and coordinate corporate filings, annual reports, foreign qualifications, registered agent matters, and related requirements. - Support securities and equity-related matters, including director and officer questionnaires, insider lists, stockholder actions, and other corporate compliance processes. - Help administer commercial agreements, including contract intake, approvals, execution, storage, renewals, and maintaining accurate contract records in Ironclad. - Coordinate signatures, notarizations, certifications, good-standing certificates, and other transaction and corporate requirements. - Maintain corporate, governance, transaction, and compliance calendars and ensure critical deadlines and deliverables don't slip. - Build practical templates, checklists, workflows, and systems that make recurring legal work faster and more reliable. - Take on new legal and corporate projects as Etched continues to scale. You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications) - 4+ years of experience as a corporate paralegal at a leading law firm, high-growth technology company, or similar environment. - Experience supporting venture financings, M&A, strategic transactions, tender offers, or other complex corporate matters. - Strong experience with corporate governance, Board processes, entity management, and maintaining corporate records. - Experience managing Carta, Ironclad, DocuSign, and virtual data rooms for a variety of diligence requests, transactions, and closing documents. - Exceptional attention to detail and a high bar for complete and accurate work. - Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple time-sensitive workstreams at once. - Sound judgment when handling confidential, privileged, and sensitive information. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. - The ability to work effectively with attorneys, executives, outside counsel, and teams across the company. - A track record of taking ownership, identifying what needs to happen next, and driving work through completion. - Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where processes are still being built. Strong candidates may also have experience with (Nice-to-have qualifications) - Supporting an IPO, public-company readiness, major financing, acquisition, tender offer, or other significant corporate transaction. - Working both at a leading corporate law firm and in-house at a high-growth company. - Securities compliance, SEC reporting, Section 16, or public-company governance. - Equity plans, stock administration, director and officer questionnaires, or stockholder matters. - Contract lifecycle management, Board management, entity management, or other legal technology. - Building or scaling legal processes at a rapidly growing company. - Supporting companies in semiconductors, AI infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, or other technically complex industries. - A paralegal certificate or equivalent corporate paralegal training. ## 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 - Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification ## How we’re different Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html. We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors. We are a fully in-person team in San Jose (Santana Row), 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 and work across disciplines as needed. ## About Etched ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Etched designs and manufactures specialized ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) that are hardwired to run transformer-based AI models, offering an order-of-magnitude improvement in inference cost and energy efficiency over general-purpose GPUs. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B / later stage; total raised $800M as of June 2026) - **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, USA (also has offices in Cupertino, CA; Sacramento, CA; and small presence in Taiwan, Canada, UK, Bulgaria) - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Gavin Uberti (CEO), Robert Wachen (President & COO), Chris Zhu (Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI hardware / semiconductor design / computer hardware manufacturing - **Target customers**: Frontier AI labs, hyperscalers, and enterprises running large-scale transformer inference workloads (B2B, enterprise) - **Mission / purpose**: Build hardware for superintelligence – specifically, the world’s most powerful servers for transformer inference. ## Products & Services - **Sohu Chip (ASIC)**: A transformer-specific ASIC manufactured by TSMC. It burns the transformer architecture directly into silicon, eliminating the overhead of general-purpose GPUs for inference. - **Frontier Inference Clusters**: Full-stack systems that bundle the Sohu chip with custom-designed racks, networking, and software. Customers place orders for complete systems, not just chips. Etched claims they deliver more tokens per dollar and per watt for dense models, sparse MoEs, diffusion models, and more. - **Software Stack**: Includes compiler and runtime optimizations built by a team with deep experience (former Apache TVM developer, ex-Google TPU software lead). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: $5 billion post-money valuation (as of December 2025 / disclosed June 2026) - **Key Metric**: $1 billion in contract orders (booked) for its systems; total funding of $800M (including an unannounced $500M round closed Dec 2025 led by Stripes) - **Notable Investors**: Stripes (lead), VentureTech Alliance, Jane Street, Hudson River Trading, Two Sigma, Ribbit Capital. Angel investors include Andrej Karpathy, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Arthur Mensch, Scott Wu, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Thiel. Earlier backers: Positive Sum, Primary Venture Partners. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount: 258 employees (as of mid-2026), up 141% year-over-year - 100+ active job postings across engineering, operations, and business functions - $500M raise in late 2025; first chip manufactured by TSMC in 2025 and now being tested with customers - Talent sources include Google (21), Apple (17), NVIDIA (16), Tesla (11), Intel (10), AMD (5) ## Competitive Advantages - **Transformer-specific architecture**: Unlike GPUs (which are general-purpose), Etched’s chip is hardwired only for transformer operations, enabling drastically lower cost and latency for today’s dominant AI model architecture. - **Full-stack system play**: By selling entire inference clusters (chip + rack + software), Etched captures more value and delivers a turnkey solution competitive with NVIDIA’s DGX/HGX systems. - **Deeply experienced leadership**: - CEO Gavin Uberti (Harvard math researcher, AI compiler expert, Apache TVM contributor) - President Robert Wachen (co-founded Prod AI incubator; Thiel Fellow) - VP of Platform (ex-NVIDIA 22 years, built HGX/DGX systems) - VP of Software (ex-Google DeepMind, lead TPU v1–v5 software) - Chief Architect Saptadeep Pal (former Auradine co-founder, chiplet expert) - VP of Hardware Engineering Ajat Hukkoo (ex-Cypress CTO, shipped >$1B revenue products) ## Strategic Focus - **Scale manufacturing and customer deliveries**: With the first chip successfully fabricated, the company is now testing production systems and aims to fulfill $1B in pre-orders. - **Expand engineering talent**: Aggressively hiring across silicon design, validation, infrastructure, optics, and software to support volume ramp. - **Maintain technological lead**: Continue refining the ASIC for future transformer variants and MoE mixtures while building out a partner ecosystem. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven, high-impact engineering**: “Building the hardware for superintelligence” – the company is solving one of the hardest problems in compute (inference efficiency) with a focused team. - **Top-tier team and learning environment**: Colleagues from Google, NVIDIA, Apple, Tesla, Broadcom, and Intel; exposure to full-stack chip-to-system design. - **In-office culture**: All roles are in-office (Cupertino and San Jose, CA). The company emphasizes on-site collaboration for hardware development. Notable perks are not heavily advertised, but compensation is competitive for the AI hardware space (equity-heavy). - **Growth trajectory**: 141% headcount growth YoY, hundreds of open roles, and a $5B valuation signal strong backing and career acceleration potential. - **Intellectual challenge**: Work on chip simulation, RTL design, system validation, or software infrastructure for cutting-edge AI inference. ## Sources 1. [etched.com/careers](https://www.etched.com/careers) 2. [builtin.com/company/etched](https://builtin.com/company/etched) 3. [linkedin.com/company/etched-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/etched-ai) 4. [cbinsights.com/company/etched](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/etched) 5. [techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/nvidia-competitor-etched-hits-5b-valuation-1b-in-sales-for-ai-chip/](https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/nvidia-competitor-etched-hits-5b-valuation-1b-in-sales-for-ai-chip/) ## Other roles at Etched - [EE Hardware System Engineer (TW)](https://feeny.ai/job/ee-hardware-system-engineer-tw-etched-taipei-fgncym9kzy6w) — Taipei, Taiwan - [Silicon Validation Engineer, Software](https://feeny.ai/job/silicon-validation-engineer-software-etched-san-jose-qhp3k9xqy5vr) — San Jose, CA - [RMA & Repair Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/rma-repair-lead-etched-san-jose-q0tmchh0yyrj) — San Jose, CA - [Advanced Packaging SI/PI Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/advanced-packaging-si-pi-engineer-etched-san-jose-47he7k0hp901) — San Jose, CA - [Substrate IC Package Layout Design Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/substrate-ic-package-layout-design-engineer-etched-san-jose-g36wmxc8ww9r) — San Jose, CA - [ECAD Librarian](https://feeny.ai/job/ecad-librarian-etched-san-jose-0h5kvj2cxzk4) — San Jose, CA - [Inventory Warehouse Coordinator](https://feeny.ai/job/inventory-warehouse-coordinator-etched-san-jose-49b0bs49ce57) — San Jose, CA - [Logistics Analyst (Taiwan)](https://feeny.ai/job/logistics-analyst-taiwan-etched-taipei-5xzc094cqgzn) — Taipei, Taiwan - [Communications](https://feeny.ai/job/communications-etched-san-jose-3f4bdr97hysp) — San Jose, CA - [Production Finance](https://feeny.ai/job/production-finance-etched-san-jose-qfypbv9eh0ws) — San Jose, CA