Lyte
lyte.ai
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Artificial Intelligence
Machine Vision & 3D Cameras
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Total raised
$165M
1 round on record
Latest round
$165M
Series C · Sep 2026 · 1 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
46
+10 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Fresh money
1 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
54/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | Sep 2026 | $165M | Maverick Capital lead | rutlandherald.com |
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How Lyte hires
Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
175 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Lyte scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 38 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 175 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
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Overview
Lyte is a technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that builds perception systems for physical AI, combining custom silicon, integrated sensors and software into one platform for robotics, mobility and automation. The company emerged from stealth with teams in Sunnyvale and Bucharest, Romania, plus a presence in Singapore and Sydney, and develops its own chips, optics and embedded software stack. It hires silicon validation and bring-up engineers, optical and hardware validation engineers, functional safety engineers, RTOS, SDK and platform software engineers, IT and network engineers and software engineering interns.
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Former Apple Engineers' Physical AI Startup Lyte Raises $165M At $1.6B Valuation
Lyte, a physical AI startup building sensing and perception technology for robots, has raised a Maverick Silicon-led $165 million Series C funding at a $1.6 billion post-money valuation.
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Lyte raises $165 million funding, valuation jumps 3x to $1.6 billion
The latest financing was led by Maverick Silicon, according to a statement on Wednesday, with participation from existing investors, including Fidelity Management & Research
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Lyte Raises $165 Million Series C Led by Maverick Silicon to Give Robots a Trustworthy View of the World
SUNNYVALE, Calif., September 02, 2026--Lyte raised $165 million at a $1.6 billion valuation to scale its AI-powered robotics perception platform.
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Lyte Raises $165 Million Series C Led by Maverick Silicon to Give Robots a Trustworthy View of the World
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Lyte AI获得1.07亿美元A轮融资_腾讯新闻
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lyte over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
117
Postings analysed
51
Stack modernity
67/100
Languages
Python65%
C++39%
MATLAB14%
Bash10%
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA10%
ROS8%
PyTorch6%
PyTorch C++6%
Cloud & platforms
Linux20%
AWS10%
GitLab10%
RTOS10%
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Full Lyte tech stack
117 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
45/100
Stable
Open positions
46
3 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
175 days
faster than 9% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 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.
Industrial Engineering
36% ▲
Hardware
21% ▼
Backend
11% ▲
DevOps
11%
QA
7% ▲
Networking
4% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Sydney
Oct 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack
Oct 2026
Added CAM350 to stack
Oct 2026
Added AutoCAD to stack
Oct 2026
Added Java to stack
Oct 2026
Added GitHub Actions to stack
Sep 2026
Added Ansible to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Vietnam
Sep 2026
New location: Taiwan
Sep 2026
Added Ray to stack
Sep 2026
Added C# to stack
Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
3
Busiest office
Sunnyvale
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Sunnyvale
United States
HQ
29 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 48% engineering 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Backend
Bucharest
Romania
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 82% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Hardware, DevOps, Industrial Engineering
Sydney
Australia
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
Jobs
≈ $26k – $74k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bucharest
Python
Bash
Physical AI
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GitHub Actions
RTOS
GitLab CI
CI/CD
Jenkins
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GitLab
Linux
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≈ $106k – $218k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • Sunnyvale
Python
PowerShell
Bash
Physical AI
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
GitLab
Linux
Windows
VPN
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Microsoft Entra ID
SIEM
Management
SharePoint
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≈ $136k – $249k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Sunnyvale
Python
Physical AI
Apply
≈ $33k – $91k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bucharest
Python
C++
MATLAB
Physical AI
Design
SolidWorks
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In office • Full-Time • Bucharest
Python
C++
Streamlit
Physical AI
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
Rest API
Terraform
CloudFormation
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
Amazon S3
IAM
Amazon ECS
Amazon CloudWatch
API Gateway
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≈ $41k – $94k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bucharest
Physical AI
DevOps
RTOS
Linux
IoT
FreeRTOS
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≈ $32k – $90k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bucharest
C++
Physical AI
DevOps
RTOS
Linux
Apply
≈ $116k – $229k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Sunnyvale
Python
C++
Groovy
Cython
CMake
Cython
PyBind11
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
TensorRT
CUDA
Physical AI
DevOps
GitLab CI
CI/CD
Jenkins
Docker
Gerrit
GitLab
Linux
Robotics
ROS
Foxglove Studio
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≈ $127k – $268k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Sunnyvale
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
Node JS
Flask
FastAPI
Django
AI/ML
Dagster
Prefect
Physical AI
Frontend
Vue.js
Angular
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Docker
Grafana
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
Plotly
ETL/ELT
Metabase
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≈ $119k – $269k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Sunnyvale
Python
SciPy
NumPy
Physical AI
Analytics
Matplotlib
Apply
≈ $107k – $208k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Sunnyvale
Python
Physical AI
Chips/EDA
Synopsys ZeBu
Cadence Palladium
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≈ $117k – $227k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • Sunnyvale
Python
PowerShell
Bash
Physical AI
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
GitLab
Linux
Windows
VPN
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Microsoft Entra ID
SIEM
Management
SharePoint
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$165M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series C | 2026 | $165M | $1.6B | Details |