People Operations Intern
- Location
- San Jose, CA · On-site
- Job type
- Internship
- Level
- Entry level
- Listed
- 30 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- employment law compliance
- I-9 verification
- HRIS (Rippling)
- contract management
- employee records management
Also useful
- recruiting systems
- document management systems
Job Summary
We are looking for a sharp, high-agency intern to support People Operations and Legal. You will own real work across compliance, audits, employee operations, contracts, and company projects. You will investigate problems, organize messy information, work across teams, and drive projects through completion.
The role is based in our San Jose office.
Key Responsibilities
- Run People and Legal internal audits, including employment agreements, I-9s, policies, and employee records
- Track compliance requirements and prepare filings, reports, and supporting records
- Review data across Rippling, spreadsheets, and source documents to find and fix gaps
- Support contracts, signatures, document storage, and other Legal operations
- Help manage onboarding, offboarding, employee changes, and recruiting handoffs
- Build clear guides and processes for employees, including travel and office resources
- Coordinate with People, Legal, Finance, Recruiting, and workplace teams
- Research employment and business requirements and turn findings into clear next steps
- Take on time-sensitive projects as the company grows
You may be a good fit if you have (Must-have qualifications)
- Current undergraduate or recent graduate interested in People Operations, Legal, or business operations
- Strong attention to detail
- Clear written and verbal communication
- Good judgment with sensitive information
- Able to work through incomplete or conflicting information
- Comfortable using spreadsheets and learning new systems
- Organized, reliable, and quick to follow through
- Willing to ask questions, find answers, and take ownership
Strong candidates may also have experience with
- Previous internship, campus leadership, or volunteer experience involving administrative or operational support
- Familiarity with HR, recruiting, or document management systems
- Experience reviewing records, reconciling data, or flagging discrepancies
- Experience documenting processes or suggesting ways to make routine tasks more efficient
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every qualification.
Program details
- 12-week paid internship
- Generous housing support for those relocating
- Daily lunch and dinner in our office
- Based at our office in San Jose, CA
- Direct mentorship from industry leaders and world-class engineers
- Opportunity to work on one of the most important problems of our time
How we’re different
Etched believes in the Bitter Lesson We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes. Our addressable market is the entirety of inference, unlike many of our competitors.
We are a fully in-person team in San Jose and Taipei, 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
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.
From Etched's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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