Job Title: Technical Sales Manager – Data Center / Cloud Infrastructure

Location: California (Hybrid)

Salary: 220,000-260,000 + OTE and equity

About the Firm

A high-growth semiconductor company building next-generation memory and interconnect solutions designed to unlock performance at scale for cloud, AI, and hyperscale data centre environments.

About the Role

This is a customer-facing technical sales role focused on driving adoption of advanced memory and infrastructure solutions within hyperscale and cloud providers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic account plans targeting hyperscale and cloud customers
• Act as a trusted advisor, translating technical capabilities into business value and ROI
• Lead solution design discussions, tailoring architectures to customer workloads and performance needs
• Drive and manage proof-of-concept engagements from qualification through to deployment

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• ~5+ years of experience in technical sales, applications engineering, or partner development roles
• Strong understanding of data centre architectures, including compute, memory, and storage hierarchies
• Familiarity with modern interconnect technologies and scale-up/scale-out systems
• Proven ability to sell complex hardware solutions into enterprise or hyperscale environments

Job Title: Field Application Engineer – Data Center / Memory Systems

Location: California (Hybrid)

Salary: $225,000-270,000 + bonus & equity

About the Firm

A fast-growing semiconductor start-up developing next-generation memory and compute acceleration solutions for data centre and AI infrastructure. The company is focused on enabling high-performance, scalable architectures through cutting-edge interconnect technologies.

About the Role

This role sits at the intersection of engineering and customer engagement, supporting the adoption and deployment of advanced memory solutions within enterprise and hyperscale environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical interface for customers and ecosystem partners
• Lead system-level validation and integration of hardware within server environments
• Develop and execute test plans, analyse results, and troubleshoot issues
• Perform debugging, performance tuning, and root cause analysis across hardware and software stacks

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• ~5+ years of experience in field applications, systems engineering, or similar roles
• Strong understanding of server architectures, CPUs, memory systems, and high-speed interconnects (e.g., PCIe, CXL)
• Experience with system bring-up, validation, and debugging
• Familiarity with OS, firmware, drivers, and virtualization environments

AI Engineer (m/f/d)

Location: Munich, Germany

Salary: €90,000 – €110,000 (dependent on experience)

Overview

A rapidly growing scale up are looking for an AI Engineer to join their Data team

Key Skills / Experience

Required:

• MSc or higher in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, or similar
• Python
• ML tools (PyTorch, Tensorflow etc.)
• Delivering AI solutions in production environments
• Experience with MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Ability to balance scalability, latency, and cost in system design

 Beneficial/Nice to have:

• Experience with Generative AI, Computer Vision, or time-series data
• Knowledge of software architecture, APIs, and microservices

If you are interested and think you have the skills required as an AI Engineer, please don’t hesitate to apply.

Senior Photonics Design Engineer | $250K + Equity | Santa Barbara, CA (Relocation Available)

Working with a well-funded photonics company building optical interconnects for data centres.

Ideal background:
• Photonic / PIC design across telecom/datacom transceivers
• Experience with lasers, modulators (MZMs), photodiodes, passive components
• End-to-end PIC lifecycle (design → layout → test → packaging)
• Strong simulation experience (Lumerical, RSoft, COMSOL, HFSS etc.)
• Layout tools (IPKISS, GDS, OptoCompiler)
• System-level modelling & working with measured data
• Test planning, validation, reliability & failure analysis
• High-speed optical systems experience (nice to have)

Small, highly technical team working at the cutting edge of optical systems for AI.

$250K base + equity
On-site Santa Barbara | Relocation supported (North America)

If interested, please apply & reach out to Kai.Clarke@edisonsmart.com

Senior Optical Systems Test Engineer | $240K + Equity | Santa Barbara, CA (Relocation Available)

Working with a well-funded photonics company building optical interconnects for data centres.

Ideal background:
• High-speed optical / electrical link testing (PAM4, multi-terabit links)
• Strong signal integrity knowledge (jitter, BER, eye diagrams, link budgets)
• Hands-on with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, BERTs, VNAs, OSA, lasers)
• Optical component characterisation (lasers, modulators, photodiodes)
• Test automation (Python preferred, MATLAB/LabVIEW useful)
• Building scalable test frameworks & validation environments
• System-level debugging, failure analysis, and performance optimisation
• Experience leading test activities / mentoring engineers

Small, highly technical team working at the cutting edge of optical systems for AI.

$240K base + equity
On-site Santa Barbara | Relocation supported (North America)

If interested, please apply & reach out to Kai.Clarke@edisonsmart.com

Senior Hardware Engineer (Controls & FPGA)

Location: Santa Barbara, CA | On-site/Hybrid

Salary: $210k - $230k + equity

About the Role

An innovative photonics startup is looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer to own the architecture and validation of high-speed optical control systems. You'll have real technical ownership and direct influence over how the controls team operates and scales.

Required Skills & Experience

• High-speed closed-loop control design
• FPGA-based real-time control
• Strong control theory fundamentals: PID, Bode, phase margin, loop bandwidth
• Mixed-signal systems: ADCs, DACs, quantisation noise, timing constraints
• Hardware test & de-bugging
• Strong written and verbal communication

Beneficial Skills & Experience

• Coherent optical, PIC, or RF systems background
• Prior leadership experience in small, cross-functional teams
• Startup environment experience

Benefits:

• Equity compensation
• Various insurances
• 401k

If you are interested and think you have the skills required as a Senior Hardware Engineer, please don’t hesitate to apply.

Senior Systems Developer (Rust / HPC) - Indefinite CONTRACT

Location: Netherlands or Germany (Remote Friendly)
Type: Full-time

About the Role

Edison Smart are working with a client who are building an independent, energy-efficient AI infrastructure — a full-stack ecosystem designed for true reasoning, privacy, and sustainability.Their compute engine powers next-generation AI models using up to 96% less energy than traditional GPU-based systems, through a radically efficient binary computation platform.

This is a small, highly technical team that builds from first principles — combining systems programming, compiler design, and high-performance computing to redefine what’s possible in AI infrastructure.

The Opportunity

As Senior Systems Developer (Rust / HPC), you’ll work directly with the Principal Systems Engineer to advance the Core Compute Engine — the foundation that underpins all AI systems.
You’ll design and implement high-performance primitives, optimize algorithms across CPU, GPU, and FPGA backends, and benchmark every cycle until we’ve extracted every possible nanosecond of performance.

This role offers deep technical mentorship and real ownership. You’ll be one of only three engineers with full insight into the compute core — building real systems, not abstractions.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement new binary computation primitives across CPU, GPU, and FPGA targets.

• Extend and optimize a library of 1,900+ hardware-tuned algorithms.

• Develop and maintain a BitOps compiler, enabling multi-backend optimization.

• Write precise, data-driven benchmarks for every optimization and hardware path.

• Collaborate closely on architecture, performance, and design decisions.

• Push the limits of what Rust and modern hardware can achieve.

Requirements

• Strong Rust expertise and proven ability in low-level systems programming — you write code that’s both fast and correct.

• Experience with SIMD, GPU kernels, or hardware acceleration, or a deep willingness to learn.

• Solid understanding of computer architecture, memory hierarchies, and performance profiling.

• Passion for optimization — you’re the kind of engineer who can’t resist squeezing out extra nanoseconds.

• Fluency in English (Dutch or German is a plus).

• No degree required — demonstrated skill and curiosity matter most.