XCENA
Memory & Storage Chips · Servers & Data Center Hardware
28open roles
$135Mlatest round · Series B · May 2026 · 5 mo ago
2backers · Atinum Investment, LB Investment
50+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
XCENA is a fabless semiconductor company that provides CXL-based memory devices and a full-stack software development kit to expand memory capacity and efficiency in AI infrastructure. It was founded by semiconductor design experts from Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, serves hyperscalers, cloud providers and enterprises, and hires firmware, system software and quality assurance engineers. The company is headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 28 open roles at XCENA. XCENA is headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea. The latest round is Series B of $135M, announced in 2026.
- Open roles
- 28Job postings Alion tracks, as of Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Seongnam, South KoreaAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $135MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
- Latest round
- Series B · $135M · May 28, 2026Press report · businesswire.com
- Technologies in its job postings
- 40Named in its job postings
How XCENA hires
Truth index
B 79/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
86%
Reposted roles
0%
XCENA scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 86% 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
Total raised
$135M
1 round on record
Latest round
$135M
Series B · May 2026 · 5 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
29
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Atinum Investment, LB Investment
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
38/100
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
Aug 26
First sales or marketing role 기술 마케팅 매니저 (Technical Marketing Manager)
May 28
Raised a round Series B $135M
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | May 2026 | $135M | — | businesswire.com |
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Jobs
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In office · Full-Time · PhD · Seongnam
Python
Java
C++
Scala
GraphDB
AI/ML
Spark
vLLM
SGLang
Pandas
PyTorch
LLM
CUDA
DevOps
Prometheus
Cortex
Linux
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≈ $62k – $180k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · PhD · Seongnam
Verilog
SystemVerilog
Xilinx Vivado
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In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Seongnam
Rust
C++
DuckDB
AI/ML
Spark
CUDA
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In office · Full-Time
C++
CUDA
DevOps
CI/CD
eBPF
Linux
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In office · Full-Time · Seongnam
C++
PostgreSQL
GraphDB
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
GCP
Azure
Jenkins
Git
AWS
Kubernetes
Linux
Management
Jira
QA
Pytest
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≈ $68k – $161k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Seongnam
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In office · Full-Time · Seongnam
Python
JavaScript
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
CI/CD
Jenkins
Git
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
20/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
28
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
635 days
faster than 2% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 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
38% ▼
Backend
13% ▼
DevOps
13% ▼
QA
6% ▼
Product
6% ▲
Analytics
6% ▼
Activity Timeline
+10 jobs in a week
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$135M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | 2026 | $135M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at XCENA over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
40
Postings analysed
16
Stack modernity
74/100AI adopter
Languages
C++56%
Python19%
SystemVerilog13%
Verilog13%
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA38%
Pandas13%
PyTorch13%
SGLang13%
Databases
DuckDB6%
GraphDB6%
Milvus6%
PostgreSQL6%
Cloud & platforms
Linux38%
Spark13%
vLLM13%
GitHub Actions6%
AI & ML
LLM13%
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40 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
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Shared investors
LB InvestmentVia a fund
Atinum InvestmentVia a fund
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
Shared investors
News
Hot Chips 2026: XCENA and Samsung's Near-Memory Compute CXL Device
CXL memory expansion, with a side of compute
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Report
XCENA MX1 CXL Computational Memory Device at Hot Chips 2026 with Samsung
At Hot Chips 2026, XCENA showed off how the MX1 combines a CXL memory controller with 3072 RISC-V cores and tiering to SSDs, and Samsung showed how it scales
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Report
XCENA Details MX1 Architecture Integrating Memory Expansion and Near-Memory Computing at Hot Chips 2026
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Report
Report
Report
XCENA Raises $135 Million Series B To Advance Memory-Centric Computing Solutions For AI Infrastructure
XCENA, a company providing memory-centric computing solutions for AI infrastructure, announced it has raised $135 million (KRW 202 billion) in a Series B financing round. The funding will support the company's global expansion, customer deployment efforts
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Report
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI's biggest bottleneck isn't compute -- it's memory
South Korean chip startup XCENA is betting that AI's real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
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Report
XCENA Raises $135M Series B to Accelerate Deployment of Memory-Centric Computing Solutions
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Report
XCENA MX1 RISC-V Computational Memory in CXL 3.0
We saw the XCENA MX1S and MX1P that will soon bring "1000s" of RISC-V cores to PCIe Gen6 and CXL 3 servers and memory pools
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Report
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Seongnam
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Seongnam
South Korea
HQ
23 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 83% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Backend, DevOps
대한민국 경기도 성남시 분당구 판교역로241번길 20 엑시나
Sunnyvale
United States
Regional office
SDK
Suite 240, 530 Lakeside Drive, Sunnyvale, California 94085, USA, Company Registration Number : 710-81-02837
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Alion, "XCENA: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/xcena
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