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Positron
Purpose-built AI inference accelerator hardware. Positron makes chips and systems to run transformer models at scale, with support for models up to 500 billion parameters.
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Updated 23 October 2026
Hiring now
From Positron's own jobs board, checked every week.
Hiring its own recruiters. With a recruiter on the list, it is preparing to hire at a faster pace.
It has 22 open roles, up from 4 in mid-July.
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
Positron announced a $875 million Series C in September 2026, led by NEA, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners and Andra Capital.
Source: published announcement
Who Positron 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 Positron'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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