# Hardware Engineer

About us Salience Labs is building the optical infrastructure that will power the next generation of AI. Our photonic switching technology delivers the high-speed, ultra-low latency networking fabrics AI datacenters need and can’t get anywhere else. We’re a multi-disciplinary team of physicists, engineers, and machine learning specialists on a mission to remove the bottlenecks holding AI infrastructure back. Job Overview As a Hardware Engineer at Salience Labs, you will play a crucial role in designing and testing the electronics that power our hybrid photonic-electronic systems. As an early member of the team, you will contribute directly to our mission of bringing photonic products to high-performance compute systems, particularly those used for AI. The role offers a varied mix of system design, PCB design, system bring-up and qualification, with a significant share of hands-on lab work at our Oxford office. What you’ll be doing Carry out detailed hardware design, including specification, simulation, schematic capture (using Altium) and component selection. PCB layout experience is a strong advantage Bring up and test new hardware in the lab, focusing on the electronics and how

- **Id**: 4276940
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/salience-labs-hardware-engineer>
- **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**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T16:53:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:17:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2649
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **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:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T21:43:01Z

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