--- title: 'General Ledger Accountant - Close at Etched' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/general-ledger-accountant-close-etched-san-jose-436fxn7mvqcw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-09' --- # General Ledger Accountant - Close at Etched - **Company:** [Etched](https://feeny.ai/companies/etched) - **Location:** San Jose, CA - **Compensation:** $120k–$200k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Etched/7f89eb44-b816-470a-953f-3fc1dc09b280 ## 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 hiring a General Ledger Accountant, Close to own critical elements of our month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close and support scalable close process. This is a hands-on role focused on the accuracy and integrity of the general ledger, ensuring financial results are complete, timely, and properly supported. You'll be close to the details - owning core close deliverables - while also helping design systems and workflows that scale as the company grows. This role is well-suited for someone who enjoys the rigor of technical close work, understands how transactional activity flows through to the financial statements, and wants real ownership over a critical financial function. As a GL Accountant, you'll manage day-to-day ledger activities while helping build the controls and processes that scale with us. You'll work cross-functionally with AP, AR, Inventory, and Payroll teams to support accurate, reliable financial reporting. ## Key Responsibilities Close Ownership: Own and lead core components of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial results and strong internal controls over the general ledger: - Maintain and manage the close calendar, coordinating tasks and deadlines across accounting and cross-functional teams - Prepare, post and/or review journal entries, including accruals, prepaids, amortization schedules, fixed assets/depreciation, leases, and intercompany transactions - Perform balance sheet account reconciliations for assigned accounts and resolve reconciling items timely - Prepare flux analysis for balance sheet and P&L accounts, investigating and explaining period-over-period variances - Ensure subledgers (AP, AR, payroll, fixed assets) tie out to the general ledger each period - Review trial balance for unusual or unsupported entries prior to close finalization Internal Control: Support close-related internal control processes by ensuring proper documentation, approvals, transaction accuracy, and record retention in accordance with company policies: - Maintain organized close documentation (workpapers, reconciliations, journal entry support) to support internal reviews and audits - Ensure journal entries have proper approval, supporting documentation, and adherence to segregation-of-duties policies - Maintain up-to-date process documentation and desktop procedures for close workflows - Support periodic internal control reviews, walkthroughs, and testing - Support external audit and internal audit requests, including preparation of PBC (prepared-by-client) items Systems & Scaling: Support the continued scaling of close operations by maintaining system accuracy, improving process efficiency, and ensuring GL infrastructure can support company growth across entities and jurisdictions: - Maintain accurate configuration of chart of accounts, entities, segments, and classes within the ERP - Support integration between the ERP, subledgers, and other connected financial systems - Support system setup for new entities, currencies, and jurisdictions as the company expands - Standardize close processes and checklists to reduce manual intervention and close timeline - Identify and implement automation opportunities within the close cycle Cross-Functional Reporting: Support accurate financial statements and management reporting in accordance with US GAAP, including technical accounting for non-routine or complex transactions, ensuring accurate data flows into the GL through close partnership with AP, AR, Inventory, and Payroll: - Own preparing monthly and quarterly financial statement packages - Support operationalizing technical accounting memos on non-routine or complex transactions - Own multi-entity consolidations and intercompany eliminations - Support operationalizing revenue recognition, lease accounting, and other technical accounting areas as applicable - Partner with AP, AR, Inventory, and Payroll teams to ensure accurate, reconciled handoffs into the GL and resolve cross-departmental discrepancies - Support ad hoc data requests, schedules, and analysis for Finance leadership and external reporting You may be a good fit if you have - Experience owning close processes end-to-end in a fast-paced environment - Proficiency with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or equivalent; comfort with scaling systems in a high-growth environment - Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field - 5+ years of progressive accounting experience - CPA or equivalent experience required - Strong understanding of US GAAP and technical accounting concepts - Excellent communication and relationship-building skills to work effectively across departments ## 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 - [Electrical Engineer - Next Gen Development (TW)](https://feeny.ai/job/electrical-engineer-next-gen-development-tw-etched-taipei-1p5eavhnv899) — Taipei, Taiwan - [Infrastructure Engineering & Projects Intern](https://feeny.ai/job/infrastructure-engineering-projects-intern-etched-san-jose-nex7pv255w2v) — San Jose, CA - [Site Reliability Engineer - Fleet Command & Control](https://feeny.ai/job/site-reliability-engineer-fleet-command-control-etched-san-jose-q5m27r8np5cv) — San Jose, CA - [IA Research Engineer Intern](https://feeny.ai/job/ia-research-engineer-intern-etched-san-jose-vhnrfnhzby7x) — San Jose, CA - [Chip Simulation Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/chip-simulation-lead-etched-san-jose-6d9bt85ms6tx) — San Jose, CA - [Build Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/build-engineer-etched-san-jose-zmxm6znacgm1) — San Jose, CA - [Inventory Site Lead (Milpitas)](https://feeny.ai/job/inventory-site-lead-milpitas-etched-san-jose-n83f9gpfm42w) — San Jose, CA - [Strategic Buyer](https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-buyer-etched-san-jose-e9vh7zjgpwv0) — San Jose, CA - [People Operations Generalist](https://feeny.ai/job/people-operations-generalist-etched-san-jose-mct9adxz70g2) — San Jose, CA - [Manufacturing Operations Program Manager (Taiwan)](https://feeny.ai/job/manufacturing-operations-program-manager-taiwan-etched-taoyuan-a7vyayy8zrh7) — Taoyuan, Taiwan