Efficient Computer
AI Chips & Accelerators · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips
16open roles
$245kmedian advertised pay
$60Mlatest round · Venture round · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
3backers · Eclipse, Toyota Ventures
Overview
Efficient Computer builds the world's most energy-efficient general-purpose AI chips, delivering up to 100× better efficiency than low-power CPUs. Enabling edge AI, on-device AI inference, IoT devices, and industrial automation that run for years on a single charge.
How Efficient Computer hires
Truth index
B 70/100
Median time to fill
62 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Efficient Computer scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 62 days. 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
Total raised
$60M
1 round on record
Latest round
$60M
Venture round · Feb 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
18
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Eclipse, Toyota Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
48/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
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
Jun 30
Launched Efficient Computer Launches Efficient Labs, An Interactive Tool Suite for Engineers · morningstar.com
Feb 18
Raised a round Venture round $60M
Dec 9, 2025
Launched Efficient Computer Launches Electron E1 Evaluation Kit to Accelerate Energy-Efficient Computing · PRNewswire
Jul 31, 2025
Launched Efficient Computer unveils ultra-energy-efficient processor · EDN
Feb 27, 2025
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Compiler Playground for energy-efficient embedded dataflow processor
Mar 7, 2024
Launched Efficient Computer Emerges from Stealth to Introduce World · PRNewswire
Nov 2021
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Feb 2026 | $60M | — | technical.ly |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Eclipse 
Toyota Ventures 
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$245k
Typical range
$105k – $275k
Open positions
16
16
Jobs
Junior
6.3%
Middle
6.3%
Senior
43.8%
Staff
43.8%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $105k | $105k |
| Middle | 1 | $230k | $230k |
| Senior | 7 | $240k | $220k – $260k |
| Staff | 7 | $260k | $160k – $275k |
Highest paying role
Lead RTL Design Engineer
$275k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Efficient Computer
By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
38/100
Slowing
Open positions
18
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
62 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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
37% ▼
Backend
11% ▲
Product
11% ▼
DevOps
5% ▲
Leadership
5% ▲
Administrative
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Hardware (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added Sensor Fusion to stack
Oct 2026
Added Notion to stack
Oct 2026
Added Linear to stack
Oct 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Oct 2026
Financials
Total raised
$60M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $60M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Efficient Computer over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
66
Postings analysed
24
Stack modernity
70/100
Languages
Python67%
C++50%
SystemVerilog38%
Perl17%
Frameworks & libraries
UVM21%
MLIR17%
CUDA8%
Electron8%
Databases
PostgreSQL4%
Redis4%
Cloud & platforms
Linux17%
GitHub8%
Kubernetes8%
AWS4%
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News
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Efficient Computer Launches Efficient Labs, An Interactive Tool Suite for Engineers
Efficient Computer, the company building the world
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Power-Efficient Processor Leverages Novel Dataflow Architecture
Efficient Computer's Electron E1 runs conventional C code on a dataflow architecture.
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Efficient Computer Launches Electron E1 Evaluation Kit to Accelerate Energy-Efficient Computing
/PRNewswire/ -- Efficient Computer, the company building the world
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CEO Interview with Brandon Lucia of Efficient Computer - Semiwiki
Brandon Lucia is the CEO and co-founder of Efficient Computer, the company building the world's most energy-efficient general-purpose processors, and a Full Professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Efficient Computer Saves Energy - The Link - The Magazine of CMU's School of Computer Science
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Efficient Computer unveils ultra-energy-efficient processor - Electronic Products
Efficient Computer's Electron E1 general-purpose processor claims up to 100 higher energy efficiency than general-purpose CPUs.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
4
Countries
1
Busiest office
Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh
United States
HQ
Address
17 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 65% engineering 6% remote 1-10 est. staff $244k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Backend, Product
224 North Euclid Avenue, Floor 4, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206
San Francisco
United States
Engineering / R&D
San Francisco, Bay Area
18 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 61% engineering 6% remote 10-50 est. staff $235k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Backend, Product
Austin
United States
Regional office
Austin, TX
12 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 8% remote 1-10 est. staff $242k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Product, Industrial Engineering
San Jose
United States
Regional office
5 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 20% remote 1-10 est. staff $226k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Administrative, Marketing
Tucson
United States
Regional office
Tucson, AZ
3 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff