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lumentum.com • HQ: San Jose, United States • Optical Communications • Lasers & Laser Systems • Optics & Photonic Components • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2015 • Trust B • Hiring 197, 14 new
HQ: San Jose, United States • Optical Communications • Lasers & Laser Systems • Optics & Photonic Components • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2015 • Trust B • Hiring 197, 14 new
Lumentum is an American photonics company separated from JDS Uniphase in 2015 that makes the optical components carrying data through networks and between data centre systems. Its business has been transformed by artificial intelligence build-out: the optical transceivers and laser components that connect accelerators inside a cluster are now in far shorter supply than the networking equipment they plug into. Headquartered in San Jose and listed on Nasdaq, it also supplies industrial and consumer lasers, and it acquired Cloud Light in 2023 specifically to add high-speed transceiver manufacturing capacity for cloud customers.
teradyne.com • HQ: North Reading, United States • Collaborative Robots (Cobots) • Semiconductor Equipment • Test & Measurement Instruments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1960 • NASDAQ: TER • Trust A • Hiring 453, 37 new
HQ: North Reading, United States • Collaborative Robots (Cobots) • Semiconductor Equipment • Test & Measurement Instruments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1960 • NASDAQ: TER • Trust A • Hiring 453, 37 new
Teradyne is a manufacturer of automated test equipment for semiconductors and electronics. Its testers validate chips before they ship into consumer and automotive products, the company also owns collaborative robotics businesses, and it hires engineers, planners, sales managers and field specialists in the United States and Asia. The company is headquartered in North Reading, Massachusetts, United States.
tensordyne.ai • HQ: Sunnyvale, United States • AI Compute & Inference • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 201-500 employees • Est. 2017 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 21, 2 new
HQ: Sunnyvale, United States • AI Compute & Inference • AI Chips & Accelerators • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 201-500 employees • Est. 2017 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 21, 2 new
Tensordyne is an artificial intelligence infrastructure company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and founded in 2017. The company develops high-performance AI inference systems, including the Napier processor and Scorpio silicon, which utilize a proprietary logarithmic number system to reduce power consumption and increase processing speed. It operates as a fabless semiconductor firm serving data centers, hyperscalers, and neocloud providers with hardware and software solutions optimized for large-scale generative AI workloads.
figure.ai • HQ: San Jose, United States • Multimodal AI • Humanoid Robots • Robotics AI • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2022 • Trust A • Hiring 98, 3 new
HQ: San Jose, United States • Multimodal AI • Humanoid Robots • Robotics AI • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2022 • Trust A • Hiring 98, 3 new
Figure AI is an American robotics company founded in 2022 that develops general-purpose humanoid robots for commercial and household work. Its Figure 02 and Figure 03 machines combine custom actuators, battery systems and hands with the in-house Helix vision-language-action model, which lets one neural network drive both perception and motor control from natural-language instructions. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company runs the BotQ manufacturing facility for high-volume production and has piloted its robots on logistics and automotive assembly work with commercial partners.
innophaseiot.com • HQ: San Jose, San Diego, United States • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • RF & Wireless Hardware • 201-500 employees • Est. 2022 • Likely startup • Trust D • Hiring 14
HQ: San Jose, San Diego, United States • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • RF & Wireless Hardware • 201-500 employees • Est. 2022 • Likely startup • Trust D • Hiring 14
InnoPhase IoT, Inc. is a semiconductor company specializing in ultra-low power wireless connectivity solutions for IoT devices.
≈ $114k – $210k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (San Diego, San Jose, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Contractor • Senior
intuitivemachines.com • HQ: Houston, United States • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2013 • Hiring 55, 3 new
HQ: Houston, United States • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2013 • Hiring 55, 3 new
Intuitive Machines built the Nova-C lander that made the first commercial Moon landing. Its work covers lunar delivery, orbital services and space infrastructure. The company is publicly listed and based near the Johnson Space Center.
renesas.com • HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Automotive Components • Analog & Power Semiconductors • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 2003 • Trust B • Hiring 649, 73 new
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Automotive Components • Analog & Power Semiconductors • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 5000+ employees • Est. 2003 • Trust B • Hiring 649, 73 new
Renesas Electronics is a Japanese semiconductor company formed in 2003 when Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric combined their chip divisions, later absorbing NEC Electronics as well. It is one of the largest suppliers of microcontrollers in the world and holds a particularly strong position in automotive silicon, where its R-Car processors and body and powertrain controllers sit inside a large share of vehicles built globally. It has spent the past decade buying into analog and connectivity through Intersil, IDT, Dialog and Altium, broadening from bare microcontrollers into complete embedded systems for industrial and internet of things customers.
asml.com • HQ: Veldhoven, Netherlands • Semiconductor Equipment • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1984 • Trust B • Hiring 615, 68 new
HQ: Veldhoven, Netherlands • Semiconductor Equipment • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1984 • Trust B • Hiring 615, 68 new
ASML is a semiconductor equipment manufacturer specializing in high-precision photolithography systems, computational lithography software, and metrology and inspection solutions. Headquartered in Veldhoven, Netherlands, the enterprise is the world’s sole supplier of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines - including next-generation High-NA EUV platforms - alongside a broad portfolio of deep ultraviolet (DUV) systems. Through its global network of R&D centers, manufacturing facilities, and field support services across Europe, Asia, and North America, the organization enables global semiconductor foundries and chipmakers to fabricate advanced logic and memory microchips.
≈ $135k – $249k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 7+ years exp • In office (Seattle, San Jose, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Nationals only • Senior
≈ $129k – $238k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 7+ years exp • In office (Seattle, San Jose, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Nationals only • Senior
≈ $160k – $296k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 12+ years exp • In office (Seattle, San Jose, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Nationals only • Principal
rtx.com • HQ: Arlington, United States • Avionics & Flight Control • Air Defense • Missiles • Defense Manufacturing • Aerospace Manufacturing • 5000+ employees • Est. 2020 • Trust B • Hiring 3175, 372 new
HQ: Arlington, United States • Avionics & Flight Control • Air Defense • Missiles • Defense Manufacturing • Aerospace Manufacturing • 5000+ employees • Est. 2020 • Trust B • Hiring 3175, 372 new
RTX is an American aerospace and defense company formed in 2020 by the merger of United Technologies and Raytheon. It operates through three businesses: Collins Aerospace, which makes avionics, aircraft interiors and aerostructures, Pratt & Whitney, which builds commercial and military jet engines, and Raytheon, which produces missiles, air defense systems such as Patriot, radars and sensors. Its customers include airlines, aircraft manufacturers, the United States Department of Defense and allied governments. The company is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, United States.
$118k – $225k per year • Lead • 8+ years exp • In office (San Jose, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • TS/SCI • Citizenship or vetting required • Principal
hark.com • HQ: San Jose, United States • LLM & Generative AI • AI Research Labs • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2007 • Trust A • Hiring 48, 1 new
HQ: San Jose, United States • LLM & Generative AI • AI Research Labs • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2007 • Trust A • Hiring 48, 1 new
Hark is a technology company whose operating entity, Hark Labs Inc., develops hardware and desktop software, hiring members of technical staff for its Hark Desktop product, manufacturing quality engineers, information and application security engineers and enterprise sales managers. Its hiring is concentrated at its base on North First Street in San Jose. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States.
axiado.com • HQ: San Jose, United States • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 51-200 employees • Est. 2017 • Trust A • Hiring 51
HQ: San Jose, United States • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • 51-200 employees • Est. 2017 • Trust A • Hiring 51
Axiado builds security processors that protect servers at the hardware root of trust. Its chips use machine learning to detect attacks on platform firmware. The company serves data centre and telecom equipment makers.
momentus.space • HQ: San Jose, United States • Satellite Manufacturing • Launch Services • Space Services • 51-200 employees • Est. 2017 • Trust B • Hiring 9
HQ: San Jose, United States • Satellite Manufacturing • Launch Services • Space Services • 51-200 employees • Est. 2017 • Trust B • Hiring 9
Momentus builds orbital service vehicles that deliver satellites to their final orbits. Its Vigoride craft ride share launches and then manoeuvre payloads independently. The company also offers hosted payload and in-orbit testing services.
$140k – $175k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (San Jose, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Nationals only • Citizenship or vetting required • Senior
lambda.ai • HQ: San Jose, United States • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Servers & Data Center Hardware • AI Compute & Inference • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2012 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 94, 9 new
HQ: San Jose, United States • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Servers & Data Center Hardware • AI Compute & Inference • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2012 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 94, 9 new
Founded in 2012 by Stephen Balaban and Michael Balaban, Lambda is an artificial intelligence compute and deep learning infrastructure provider headquartered in San Jose, California. The company specializes in cloud-based GPU instances, multi-node GPU superclusters, bare-metal deep learning servers, and high-performance hardware optimized for training, fine-tuning, and serving inference for complex AI foundation models.
infineon.com • HQ: Neubiberg, Germany • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • Analog & Power Semiconductors • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1999 • Trust B • Hiring 1027, 28 new
HQ: Neubiberg, Germany • Processors, MCUs & AI Chips • Analog & Power Semiconductors • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1999 • Trust B • Hiring 1027, 28 new
Infineon Technologies is a semiconductor company near Munich that was spun out of Siemens in 1999. It is the world leader in power semiconductors and a major supplier of automotive chips, security controllers and sensors. The company operates fabrication plants in Germany, Austria and Malaysia and is building a large new site in Dresden.
bonsairobotics.ai • HQ: Watsonville, United States • Computer Vision • Agricultural Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2022 • Startup • Hiring 8
HQ: Watsonville, United States • Computer Vision • Agricultural Robotics • 51-200 employees • Est. 2022 • Startup • Hiring 8
Bonsai Robotics develops vision-based autonomy for agricultural and other off-road equipment, including orchard harvesters that work without satellite signals. Its Bonsai Intelligence platform combines perception and embodied AI, and the company also offers compact modular Amiga vehicles and integrations with equipment manufacturers. The company is headquartered in Watsonville, California, United States.
eh2.com • HQ: Devens, United States • Energy & Utilities • Hydrogen Energy • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 15
HQ: Devens, United States • Energy & Utilities • Hydrogen Energy • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 15
Headquartered in Devens, Massachusetts, Electric Hydrogen is a deep-tech climate technology company pioneering advanced, high-efficiency electrolyzer systems for green hydrogen production. The organization designs and manufactures large-scale, powerful clean energy plants engineered to transform water and renewable electricity into cost-effective clean fuel. By targeting hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy manufacturing, chemicals, and mining, the company enables global industries to accelerate their decarbonization and achieve long-term energy security.
