--- title: 'General Ledger Accountant, Payroll at Etched' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/general-ledger-accountant-payroll-etched-san-jose-xr9dcmpj9szw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-19' --- # General Ledger Accountant, Payroll 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:** 2026-10-19 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/etched/7f89eb44-b816-470a-953f-3fc1dc09b280/application **Skills:** ERP systems, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Payroll accounting, General ledger, Financial reporting, Internal controls, HRIS integration, Payroll tax compliance > The General Ledger Accountant, Payroll owns the critical elements of the financial close, ensuring accurate accounting for payroll, benefits, and compensation expenses. This role involves managing payroll accruals, reconciliations, compliance, and internal controls while partnering with People Ops and Finance to sup... ## 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 are hiring a General Ledger Accountant, Payroll to own critical elements of our financial close and ensure accurate accounting for payroll, benefits, and related compensation expenses. This role sits at the intersection of People Operations and Accounting, with direct ownership over payroll accruals, reconciliations, compliance, and internal controls. You will partner closely with People Ops and Finance to ensure compensation activity is accurately recorded in the general ledger and supported by strong documentation and controls. You will own the payroll and benefits close process while helping design systems and workflows that scale as the company grows across entities and jurisdictions. This is a hands-on role requiring strong attention to detail, comfort operating in a fast-scaling environment, and a clear understanding of how payroll and benefits activity impacts financial reporting. ## Key Responsibilities - Own and lead the payroll and benefits accounting close process, ensuring accurate accruals, reconciliations, reporting, and strong internal controls over employee compensation and related expenses - Reconcile payroll reports from third-party providers to the general ledger - Prepare and post payroll journal entries, including accruals for bonuses, commissions, and PTO - Reconcile benefits portal data to payroll deductions - Review and reconcile carrier invoices to ensure accuracy of employer and employee contributions - Investigate and resolve discrepancies between HRIS, payroll providers, benefits portals, and ERP - Prepare payroll-related account reconciliations and maintain supporting documentation - Maintain organized payroll and benefits documentation to support internal reviews and audits - Ensure payroll changes, including new hires, terminations, compensation updates, and bonus payments, have proper approval and supporting documentation - Maintain up-to-date process documentation for payroll and benefits workflows - Support periodic internal control reviews and testing - Maintain accurate configuration of earnings codes, deduction codes, tax settings, and pay groups within payroll systems - Support integration between payroll platforms, HRIS, benefits portals, and other connected systems - Support system setup for new states, entities, and pay frequencies as the company expands - Standardize payroll processes to reduce manual intervention and improve efficiency - Maintain payroll tax registrations across federal, state, and local jurisdictions - Track and monitor payroll tax filings prepared by third-party payroll providers - Coordinate state unemployment insurance registrations and rate updates - Support new state registrations as the company expands into additional jurisdictions - Assist with year-end reporting processes, including W-2 reconciliation and distribution oversight - Coordinate responses to payroll tax notices from government agencies - Coordinate with HR on new hires, terminations, compensation changes, and benefit elections to ensure payroll accuracy - Review and validate HR-provided employee data prior to payroll processing - Assist in resolving employee payroll and benefits inquiries in collaboration with HR You may be a good fit if you have - 3 to 5+ years of general accounting experience with ownership of payroll and benefits close processes - Proficiency with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or equivalent, and experience scaling systems in a high-growth environment - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field - Strong 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 - [Mechanical Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/mechanical-engineer-etched-san-jose-42w9x3hmtqtj) — San Jose, CA - [Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Production)](https://feeny.ai/job/internal-acceleration-research-engineer-production-etched-san-jose-sqbyj2amhpjg) — San Jose, CA - [Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Hardware)](https://feeny.ai/job/internal-acceleration-research-engineer-hardware-etched-san-jose-tj3zyra40ktt) — San Jose, CA - [Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (ASIC)](https://feeny.ai/job/internal-acceleration-research-engineer-asic-etched-san-jose-b9edwhnn0z7v) — San Jose, CA - [Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Special Projects)](https://feeny.ai/job/internal-acceleration-engineer-special-projects-etched-san-jose-1dwjbp016bhc) — San Jose, CA - [Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Production)](https://feeny.ai/job/internal-acceleration-engineer-production-etched-san-jose-a54mtqn5e9zy) — San Jose, CA - [Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Hardware)](https://feeny.ai/job/internal-acceleration-engineer-hardware-etched-san-jose-w98ba6ngtm3d) — San Jose, CA - [Internal Acceleration, Engineer (ASIC)](https://feeny.ai/job/internal-acceleration-engineer-asic-etched-san-jose-vknbkj44wrzn) — San Jose, CA - [Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Kernels)](https://feeny.ai/job/internal-acceleration-research-engineer-kernels-etched-san-jose-mvmvzpbtyfg3) — San Jose, CA - [Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Kernels)](https://feeny.ai/job/internal-acceleration-engineer-kernels-etched-san-jose-x8xw3xpxxpzr) — San Jose, CA