Zettascale
AI Chips & Accelerators
2open roles
5backers · Y Combinator, Multimodal Ventures
10+team · employees, estimated range
12stories in the press
Overview
AI silicon for recursive self-improvement and superintelligence. XPU chips run inference and training for frontier AI models on a fraction of the energy.
Funding and backers
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Y Combinator, Multimodal Ventures
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, rising traction
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
Oct 2026
Formerly Exa Laboratories, Inc. (exalaboratories.com)
Aug 2025
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Jun 2024
Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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Jobs
$200k – $300k per year · Equity 1–2% · In office · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · San Francisco
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$200k – $300k per year · In office · Full-Time · San Francisco
Python
Verilog
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UVM
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$300k
Typical range
$300k
Open positions
2
2
Jobs
Junior
50%
Senior
50%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $300k | $300k |
| Senior | 1 | $300k | $300k |
Highest paying role
Senior Silicon Engineer
$300k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
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
100%
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Zettascale over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
64/100
Languages
Python
SystemVerilog
Verilog
Frameworks & libraries
Cocotb
UVM
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Shared investors
Failup VenturesVia a fund
Wave VenturesVia a fund
Multimodal VenturesVia a fund
Soma CapitalVia a fund
876 portfolio companies
Y CombinatorVia a fund
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News
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EMIB Meets Photonics: Building Reliable CPO for Zettascale AI Networks
Original Article by SemiVision Research (IEEE ECTC , Intel )
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Road to Zettascale: Intel and RIKEN Announce Strategic Partnership
Collaborating across the fields of AI, High Performance Computing, and Quantum Computing.
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AMD Lays The Path To Zettascale Computing: Talks CPU & GPU Performance Plus Efficiency Trends, Next-Gen Chiplet Packaging & More
AMD talked about the future of computing, laying out its CPU & GPU trends in terms of efficiency & performance during ISSCC 2023.
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ZettaScale launches "Taming the Dragon" webinar series
/CNW/ -- ZettaScale Technology, an innovator of technologies to communicate, compute and store at any scale, is launching "Taming the Dragon," a new webinar...
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ZettaScale to demonstrate Zenoh and Cyclone DDS protocols at ROSCon 2022
/CNW/ -- ZettaScale Technology, an innovator of technologies to communicate, compute and store at any scale, is demonstrating its two advanced and highly...
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $300k Avg Salary
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