Hyunsu Cho

People @ Etched

San Francisco Bay Area

About

I build, automate, coach, and enable people things. Currently building People Ops @ Etched, an AI hardware startup delivering frontier inference clusters. Build with us! 🚀 https://www.etched.com/careers

Experience

  • People at Etched
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

    Series B AI hardware startup on a mission to deliver rack-scale systems for frontier inference. Currently laying down the building blocks of People Ops to enable/sustain hypergrowth.

  • People Business Partner at Applied Intuition
    Aug 2025 - Jan 2026 · 6 mos

    Series F physical AI startup bringing intelligence to every moving machine in the world. People Partner lead to Trucking, Autonomy Tools, Vehicle Operations, Data Engineering, VehicleSim, Marketing, IT, and Research (40+ managers / 400+ IC's) Scope: Levels rollout, comp, org health, manager training, employee relations, performance management, survey planning, talent density, retention, and immigration.

  • Career & Leadership Coach at Self-Employed
    Nov 2021 - Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Ran my own coaching business helping managers and high-performers get unstuck and drive greater impact. Clients included engineering leaders, staff engineers, marketing directors, HRBPs, entrepreneurs, and early career folks.

  • People Lead, Americas at Ebiquity plc
    Aug 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

    People Leader for Americas group (US & Canada); leading people operations, business partnering, performance management, change management, training, comp, benefits, payroll, HRIS, and M&A activities. Advisor to Americas President, Managing Director, and CTO. Partnered with leaders and teams in Sales, Marketing, Ops, Finance, Legal, Eng, and Production regionally and globally across EMEA and APAC; partnered closely with Global People Team.

  • Sr. HR Business Partner, Engineering at Tesla
    Nov 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs

    HRBP Lead for Energy & Vehicle Engineering Groups across global operations in US, Canada, EMEA (Berlin), and APAC (Shanghai). Clients included Eng, SW, Product, Data, QA/Test, Security, UX/UI, TPM/PM, R&D, Mobile App, and Service Eng. - Energy Engineering | 800+ employees | Nov 2019 - Jul 2020 - Vehicle Engineering | 1300+ employees | Jul 2020 - Apr 2021 - AP HW & Silicon Dev | 300+ employees | Apr 2021 - Oct 2021 - Vehicle Software | 400+ employees | Jul 2020 - Oct 2021 Led HR partnership, employee relations, performance management, policy design, program management, manager coaching, comp, HRIS, headcount planning, communications, and DEI activities.