Jobs at Axelera AI

Grow and manage Axelera AI’s developer community across forums, GitHub, social channels, and events. Responsibilities include answering technical questions, creating tutorials and product content, organizing webinars and meetups, building relationships with influencers and power users, advocating for community-requested product improvements, supporting open-source contributions, and tracking engagement and health metrics. The role requires technical literacy in AI hardware, SDKs, embedded systems, maker platforms, and AI-assisted content and analytics tools.

Six-month hardware lab internship supporting AI Processing Unit board development. Responsibilities include electrical measurements, test-bench setup, board performance characterization, ancillary card schematic capture and PCB layout, lab equipment management, calibration tracking, and inventory control. The role requires on-site work in Florence and suits a technical diploma holder with basic electronics, measurement, PCB design, Linux, and scripting knowledge.

Evaluate and optimize machine learning inference performance across hardware and software platforms. Develop benchmarking tools, reproducible evaluation procedures, dashboards, and standardized reporting for throughput, latency, power, and accuracy. Analyze end-to-end computer vision pipelines, host-device overhead, compiler toolchains, SDKs, and runtime execution. Set up evaluation hardware and lab infrastructure, assess accelerator capabilities, and communicate findings that inform engineering and product roadmap decisions.

Own new business and account growth across hyperscalers, neoclouds, enterprises, and frontier AI labs in the Americas. Manage complex technical sales cycles, layered OEM/ODM and channel routes, capacity commitments, design-ins, pipeline forecasting, contracts, and executive relationships. Translate semiconductor performance, power, and TCO advantages into commercial outcomes while partnering with product, engineering, marketing, legal, and finance. Build a qualified pipeline through an existing customer network and represent the company at industry events.

Lead and build Axelera's AI Infrastructure Systems division to deliver datacenter-class hardware from accelerator cards and OAM/UBB modules to 1U/2U racks. Own architecture, schematics, PCB/layout review, power/thermal/mechanical design, BMC/firmware, bring-up, validation, qualification, NPI, and ramp with CMs/ODMs. Align roadmaps with silicon, SDK, and product teams, engage customers and partners, set engineering processes, manage budget and vendor relationships, and mitigate technical risks through hands-on leadership.

Serve as the technical interface between Axelera and Taiwan ODM/CM partners, supporting hardware integration, partner bring-up, CM NPI/production support, supplier coordination, component qualification, design verification, and defect triage to enable successful deployment of Axelera accelerator products.

Lead month-end and year-end close across multiple jurisdictions, maintain and evidence internal financial controls, ensure statutory and tax compliance, oversee reconciliations and intercompany accounting, support external audits, optimize NetSuite, and drive process improvements and AI-enabled automation toward IPO readiness.