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Full-stack networking infrastructure for AI data centres. DriveNets builds hardware platforms, network orchestration and routing solutions that connect large-scale AI clusters for cloud providers and service providers.

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Updated 23 October 2026

Hiring now

From DriveNets's own jobs board, checked every week.

38 open roles
30 in mid-July

Still mostly building the product. 25 of its 38 open roles are in engineering and research.

Where the roles are

Engineering25
Product and design4
Operations and hiring4
Data centres and hardware2
Solutions and customer engineering1

Against its sector

25 of the 38 active companies in AI Compute Hardware: Chips & Networking are advertising roles. Lumilens has the most, with 158.

Funding

DriveNets announced a $410 million Series D in June 2026, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Atreides Management.
Source: published announcement

Who DriveNets competes with

The other active companies we file under AI Compute Hardware: Chips & Networking, sorted by how much they are hiring.

Where this fits

The silicon and the networking underneath everything else. Accelerators, interconnect, and the hardware challenging the incumbent. It is the only sub-sector on these maps where that is true.

The Model Serving & Compute mapAll AI Compute Hardware: Chips & Networking companies 38

We track hiring and team changes across all 183 companies in Model Serving & Compute.

Our talent report for this sector shows how DriveNets's team compares with its competitors.

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