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iPronics
Optical circuit switching for AI data centres. iPronics builds programmable optical networking platforms using silicon photonics to connect AI clusters with higher bandwidth and lower latency than traditional approaches.
AI Compute Hardware: Chips & Networkingipronics.com ↗
Updated 23 October 2026
Hiring now
From iPronics's own jobs board, checked every week.
Hiring in Europe. Roles are advertised in the US and Europe.
With a talent lead on the list, it is preparing to hire at a faster pace.
Where the roles are
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
iPronics announced a $125 million Series B in September 2026, led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital.
Source: iPronics's announcement
Who iPronics 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.
We track hiring and team changes across all 183 companies in Model Serving & Compute.
Our talent report for this sector shows how iPronics's team compares with its competitors.
What is in it:
- Every company's team size, side by side, grouped by sub-sector
- Who grew their team over the last year, and by how much
- Who is losing people: attrition for each company, against the sector average
- Who is hiring right now, and how many open roles each has
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