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title: 'Fabrication Technician (Cleanroom) (Contract) at OLIX'
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# Fabrication Technician (Cleanroom) (Contract) at OLIX

- **Company:** OLIX
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/olix/ed313a46-1907-45cc-a097-5bad41c02bcc

## Job description

## About OLIX

AI is growing faster than any technology in history and the explosion in demand has created a massive infrastructure gap; we can no longer build chips or power stations fast enough to keep up. The industry is still leaning on a ten-year-old hardware blueprint that has reached its limit. A new paradigm that is faster and more efficient will be the biggest economic opportunity of the next century and create the most important company of the next decade. The OLIX Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1) is the first accelerator architected specifically for decode. Rack-scale co-design of logic, data movement, packaging, optics and interconnect enables a step change in system level performance.

## About the role

This is a chance to get hands-on at the heart of a fast-growing AI hardware company. You'll run a micro-fabrication process flow in our London cleanroom, and the samples you make go straight into the prototypes our engineers are building for the next generation of AI infrastructure. This role suits someone with excellent cleanroom discipline who takes pride in careful, repeatable work and wants to see it make a difference fast.

This is a 3-6 month contract role.

## What you'll do

- You'll run established process steps from written procedures, working closely with our process engineers
- Run cleanroom process steps such as substrate preparation and photolithography, following SOPs exactly
- Operate and look after process tools: routine checks, simple maintenance and flagging faults early
- Inspect work in progress for defects using metrology tools and decide when to stop and escalate
- Take routine measurements, such as thickness, surface profile and feature dimensions, to set methods
- Prepare samples for test and hand them over to the engineering team.
- Keep accurate run records so every sample is traceable
- Keep the cleanroom running: gowning discipline, housekeeping, consumables, materials storage and safe chemical handling
- Support engineers on experiments and report clearly what you observed

## What you'll bring

- Excellent cleanroom practice is the core requirement; we'll train you on our specific tools and recipes
- At least one year of hands-on work in a cleanroom (ISO 7 or better), in industry or as a regular research cleanroom user
- Practical fabrication experience: demonstrated ability to independently operate fabrication processes and record measurement results using metrology tools
- Excellent contamination control: full-gowning, clean handling and working steadily in a cleanroom for long sessions
- Careful defect inspection under a microscope, and the judgement to stop and flag a problem
- Meticulous record-keeping: you follow SOPs exactly and write down what actually happened
- Safe working with chemicals, hot equipment, UV light and lasers
- Right to work in the UK, and eligibility under the export-control conditions below

## Nice to have

- Experience across several process areas, such as coating, bonding, wet processing, deposition or etch
- Metrology: stylus or optical profilometry, confocal microscopy and thickness measurement
- Work in a production or pilot-line setting (semiconductor, MEMS, PCB, display or medical devices) as well as in R&D
- A degree, or study towards one, in physics, materials science, chemistry or engineering
- Simple data handling in Excel or Python for run logs and SPC charts

Due to U.S. export control regulations, candidates’ eligibility to work at OLIX depends on their most recent citizenship or permanent residency status. We are generally unable to consider applicants whose most recent citizenship or permanent residence is in certain restricted countries (currently including Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Russia, Belarus, China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Venezuela). Applicants who have subsequently obtained citizenship or permanent residency in another country not subject to these restrictions may still be eligible.

## About OLIX

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OLIX, formerly known as Flux, is building a new compute paradigm using an SRAM-architecture integrated with photonics to solve the fundamental memory, energy, and speed constraints in deploying frontier AI.
- **Entity Type**: Private, Series A (raised $220M in February 2026)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: James Dacombe (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Semiconductor Manufacturing, AI Infrastructure, Photonic Computing
- **Target customers**: Enterprise AI labs, hyperscalers, and frontier AI model developers requiring high-throughput, low-latency compute
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Solving the most consequential problem in the deployment of frontier AI" by building infrastructure that overcomes the limits of current GPU-based memory architecture.

## Products & Services
- **OLIX Compute Platform**: A new hardware architecture combining SRAM-based compute with integrated photonics, designed to surpass HBM-based systems on throughput per megawatt and total cost of ownership (TCO), while delivering significantly better interactivity and latency than silicon-only SRAM architectures.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Unicorn status; estimated $1–2.5B (latest round Feb 2026, per Dealroom)
- **Key Metric**: $220M in total funding (Series A, led by Hummingbird Ventures, with participation from Crane Venture Partners and others)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Hummingbird Ventures (Series A lead), Crane Venture Partners (pre-seed lead), and 4+ additional investors across seed and Series A rounds.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 420% YoY to 70 employees; operating in 6 countries (UK, US, Canada, Armenia, Romania, Germany); active job postings surged 188.9% YoY with 26 open roles as of mid-2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique photonic-SRAM architecture**: A contrarian bet that GPU-based approaches cannot simultaneously deliver high throughput and high interactivity at low cost due to physical design constraints.
- **Talent density**: Heavy hiring from top compute and AI companies (Apple, Amazon, Arm, Google, Tenstorrent).
- **First-mover in inference-era compute**: Targeting a fundamental bottleneck as frontier models require vastly more tokens per inference.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale teams**: Aggressively hiring across engineering (ASIC/photonic design, FPGA, optics, process integration), operations, and legal in London, Austin, Toronto, Bristol, and San Francisco.
- **Prototype and productize**: Moving from architecture conception into hardware integration and manufacturing (roles include Process Integration Engineer, Opto-Mechanical Engineer, Layout Engineering Manager).
- **Transition from Flux branding**: Rebranded to OLIX in January 2026 to signal a new phase of company identity and scale.

## Why Work Here
- **In-person culture**: OLIX is an in-person company. They incentivize living within a 20-minute commute of the office with a £24,000 annual living-local bonus.
- **Compensation**: Benchmark-leading base salary, meaningful stock options (early employees build significant ownership), and workplace pension.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive BUPA medical & dental (with Medical History Disregarded), 25 days holiday + UK bank holidays + birthday leave, meals on-site, cycle-to-work scheme, nursery scheme, visa sponsorship and relocation support.
- **Engineering environment**: M4 Mac standard (M5 Pro upgrade for engineering), on-site 3D-printing lab, noise-cancelling headphones, fully ergonomic workstation, and a culture of deep focus.
- **Impact**: "You will work with some of the best minds in photonics, systems, and compute on one of the defining problems of our era."

## Sources
1. [olix.com](https://olix.com/)
2. [olix.com/careers](https://olix.com/careers)
3. [LinkedIn - OLIX](https://www.linkedin.com/company/olix-computing)
4. [Dealroom - OLIX](https://dealroom.co/companies/olix-1/)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/olix](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/olix)

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