About Ayar Labs
Ayar Labs uses silicon photonics and microring-based architectures to increase bandwidth, reduce latency, and improve power efficiency in accelerator and XPU environments. The company’s TeraPHY optical engine integrates UCIe-based optical chiplets to enable high-throughput, low-power data transfer across extended distances within and between compute systems. Its SuperNova external light source provides multi-wavelength laser output designed for scalable, standards-based deployment. Ayar Labs supports disaggregated memory and scale-up architectures, enabling AI hardware systems to operate with higher interconnect density and accelerator utilization.
Open positions (24)
Sr. Staff Engineer, HW/SW Module Integration
Sr. Staff Engineer, Firmware
Sr. Staff Engineer, Platform Firmware
Principal, System Reliability Engineer
Sr. Staff Engineer, Analog/Mixed-Signal Design
Head of Business Development - Taiwan
Sr. Staff Engineer, Front-End CAD / Design Automation
Principal Engineer, SerDes AMS Design and Architecture
Sr. Engineer, Analog/Mixed-Signal Modelling and Verification
Principal Engineer, Analog/Mixed-Signal Modelling and Verification
Principal Engineer, Design for Test (DFT)
Sr. Staff Engineer, Electrical Link Architecture
Sr. Staff Engineer, Analog/Mixed-signal IC Layout
Sr. Staff Engineer, Silicon Validation
Sr. Engineer, Silicon Validation
Sr. Engineer, ASIC Design Verification
Sr. Principal Engineer, SoC Architect
Principal Engineer, Silicon Validation
Sr. Engineer, Embedded Firmware
Sr. Staff Engineer, ASIC Design
Sr. Engineer, Photonics Reliability
Sr. Engineer, Firmware
Senior Payroll Analyst
Sr. Engineer, Free-Space Optics
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$870M
Last stage
Series E
Investors
Founders
Mark Wade
Co-founder and CEO of Ayar Labs. Pioneer in photonics technologies; led the team that designed the world's first processor to communicate using light. Holds a PhD from University of Colorado.
LinkedInChen Sun
Co-founder of Ayar Labs. Prior to founding the company, led the group that designed the electronics and optical device drivers in the world's first processor to communicate using light. Holds a PhD from MIT.
LinkedInVladimir Stojanovic
Co-founder and CTO of Ayar Labs. Previously a professor of EECS at UC Berkeley and one of the key developers of the Rambus high-speed link technology. Holds a PhD from Stanford University.
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