Ayo Semiconductor
Optics & Photonic Components · AI Chips & Accelerators
7open roles
1backers · Pillar VC
50+team · employees, estimated range
Btruth index, 82 of 100
Overview
Ayo Semiconductor is a venture-backed startup building photonic processors for AI compute that use light for greater speed and energy efficiency than conventional digital platforms. Its job ads cover photonics design, semiconductor laser design, machine learning architecture and electro-optic systems roles. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 7 open roles at Ayo Semiconductor. Ayo Semiconductor is headquartered in Boston, United States.
- Open roles
- 7Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Boston, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Technologies in its job postings
- 13Named in its job postings
How Ayo Semiconductor hires
Truth index
B 82/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
71%
Reposted roles
0%
Ayo Semiconductor scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 71% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Pillar VC
Momentum
6/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 2024
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 22%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs
≈ $115k – $211k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · PhD · Boston
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≈ $115k – $211k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · PhD · Boston
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≈ $138k – $251k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Boston
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≈ $138k – $251k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Boston
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≈ $138k – $251k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Boston
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≈ $84k – $202k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · PhD · Boston
Python
JAX
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Interpretability
Machine Learning
Robotics
Digital Twin
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
7
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
121 days
faster than 9% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
100%
Activity Timeline
Added ANSYS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Ayo Semiconductor over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
13
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
Python
C++
Embedded C
VHDL
Frameworks & libraries
JAX
PyTorch
TensorFlow
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Connections
List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors
Pillar VCVia a fund
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
Shared investors
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Boston
Boston
United States
HQ
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 43% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Semiconductors, Hardware, AI/ML
2067 Massachusetts Ave, Suite 520, Cambridge, MA 02140
How to cite this page
Alion, "Ayo Semiconductor: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/ayosemi
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