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title: 'Infrastructure Support Engineer - Contract at OLIX'
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# Infrastructure Support Engineer - Contract at OLIX

- **Company:** OLIX
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/olix/3db08387-7f23-420b-bd19-985057936910

## 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.

## The Role

We're hiring one Infrastructure Support Engineer on a six-month contract to run day-to-day support for OLIX's production infrastructure: AWS, GitHub, Cloudflare, Terraform, Ansible, Linux and Kubernetes. You'll be the first line for every infrastructure request across engineering — unblocking people fast, then removing the cause so the request stops coming back. The measure of success is simple: requests resolved in hours rather than days, and a queue that shrinks as automation takes over the repetitive work.

Start date: ASAP Location: London, with working overlap for Austin and India Contract: 6 months

## Responsibilities

- Own the infrastructure support queue, responding to every request within 15 minutes and aiming for resolution in hours, not days.
- Resolve procedural requests end to end: access, permissions, capacity, licence installs, host rebuilds, DNS records, runner and repository administration.
- Apply changes through Terraform and Ansible in the infra repository, by pull request.
- Build self-service tooling and automations for common request types, removing blockers to engineering work.
- Write and maintain runbooks for incidents affecting core infrastructure.
- Escalate to infrastructure engineering where appropriate.
- Monitor capacity and licence expiry, and resolve proactively before limits are hit.
- Report weekly on volume, resolution times, top causes, and work removed by automation.

What this role does not cover: designing or building new platforms, owning the EDA platform build programme, end-user IT support (laptops, phones, Microsoft 365, identity provisioning — these stay with the IT support team), or security incident response.

## Skills & Experience

Required:

- Five or more years of Linux administration on Ubuntu or RHEL: users and permissions, filesystems, storage, networking, SSH, remote desktop.
- AWS: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Secrets Manager.
- Terraform and Ansible — reading and changing existing code, working through pull requests.
- GitHub administration: organisations, repositories, permissions, Actions runners.
- Experience working in a ticket queue against response and resolution targets.
- Clear written runbooks and documentation.

Useful:

- Cloudflare Zero Trust and WARP.
- FlexLM licence administration.
- SLURM and HPC or EDA compute environments.
- Semiconductor or engineering environments using Cadence or Synopsys tools.
- Kubernetes.

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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