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Nexthop
AI infrastructure networking and switching hardware for cloud operators. Nexthop builds scale-out and scale-across switches and optical systems designed for efficient AI workloads at hyperscale data centres.
AI Compute Hardware: Chips & Networking201-500 peoplenexthop.ai ↗
Updated 23 October 2026
Hiring now
From Nexthop's own jobs board, checked every week.
Still mostly building the product. 23 of its 32 open roles are in engineering and research.
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.
Who Nexthop 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 Nexthop'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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