# Embedded Software Engineer

About us Salience Labs is developing optical circuit switching technology for AI infrastructure, aimed at significantly reducing latency and cost in data centre networks. As we move towards real-world deployment, you’ll have genuine ownership of your area, working alongside a highly technical team of physicists, engineers and software specialists on one of the hardest problems in AI infrastructure. Job Overview As an Embedded Software Engineer at Salience Labs, you’ll be right at the centre of our photonics product development. This role spans low-level firmware, rapid prototyping, and systems integration, giving you the chance to influence everything from proof-of-concept devices to our commercial platforms. You’ll collaborate across hardware, photonics, and FPGA teams to ensure smooth, efficient embedded software development, right down to the register level and all the way up to application-facing tools. This is a full-stack embedded role, where versatility and curiosity are just as important as technical depth. We’re looking for engineers who enjoy working close to the metal, but can just as easily contribute to user-facing tools and test infrastructure. You’ll be part of a sma

- **Id**: 4276937
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/salience-labs-embedded-software-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Oxford, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T17:45:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:17:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 2029320
- **Name**: Salience Labs
- **Domain**: saliencelabs.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/saliencelabs>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

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## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T19:17:24Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T21:09:52Z

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