Production Line Supervisor

Etched is building a new category of AI hardware: frontier inference clusters. To deliver them at the pace this market demands, we're bringing manufacturing in-house, starting with the first Etched-operated production line. It will take our server racks from new product introduction (NPI) into high-volume manufacturing.

As Production Line Supervisor, you'll be the person who makes that line run. You'll hire and train its founding operator team, own the floor every shift, and be the connective tissue between production, inventory, lab operations, test development, and engineering. The way you staff, train, run, and recover this line will become the playbook for every Etched manufacturing site that follows.

This is a ground-floor role: you'll help build a manufacturing operation from nothing, and grow with it as it scales.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit, hire, and develop the line's founding team of assembly technicians and production test operators
• Train operators on the SOPs our production team provides, set clear standards, and hold the team to them
• Build a culture of safety, quality, and ownership on the floor
• Own every shift's results: schedule and assign the team, execute work orders, and deliver builds on time and to spec
• Partner with receiving and inventory to keep material flowing to the line, and head off shortages before they stop work
• Be the first responder when issues hit mid-shift: triage, contain, and pull in the right engineer fast
• Own day-to-day use of our inventory management, manufacturing execution, and test software, and keep the data in them accurate
• Work across the company
• Be the line's voice in daily coordination with production, inventory, lab operations, and engineering
• Partner with our engineers and test development team to root-cause process issues, test failures, and escapes, and drive fixes to closure
• Give leadership a clear, honest read on line status, risks, and what the team needs to hit plan
• Turn lessons from the floor into better SOPs, processes, and training
• Design the processes and site-readiness checklists that will let us replicate this line at future Etched manufacturing sites
• What Success Looks Like
• The line is fully staffed, trained, and running predictable, on-time shifts
• Material problems get caught before they stop the line
• Issues found on the floor get fixed at the source, not just worked around
• When we open our next site, your playbook is how we do it

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