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title: 'Senior/Staff NPI Mechanical Engineer at OLIX'
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# Senior/Staff NPI Mechanical Engineer at OLIX

- **Company:** OLIX
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-01
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/olix/b05c3c0e-5f62-45df-8ff0-42f840db543d

## Job description

## The Role

We're looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Staff NPI Mechanical Engineer to develop manufacturing processes and deliver production readiness for next-generation AI computing solutions. You'll serve as a senior technical leader for the industrialization of complex mechanical and opto-mechanical assemblies, transforming engineering designs into robust, scalable manufacturing processes capable of supporting high-volume production. Working closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Global Supply Management, Quality, and manufacturing partners, you'll develop, validate, and optimize manufacturing processes while driving products from concept through production readiness. You'll be responsible for delivering capable manufacturing processes that meet yield, quality, cycle time, and production performance objectives before successful transfer to Manufacturing Operations.

## Key Responsibilities

- Deliver manufacturing processes: Partner with contract manufacturers to develop and deliver robust manufacturing processes for complex mechanical and opto-mechanical assemblies from concept through production readiness.
- Deliver production readiness: Validate manufacturing processes, process capability, and manufacturing readiness to enable successful product launches and seamless transfer to Manufacturing Operations.
- Lead product industrialization: Provide technical leadership across Engineering, Global Supply Management, Quality, Manufacturing, and contract manufacturing partners to industrialize new products from development through high-volume manufacturing.
- Deliver manufacturing performance: Meet or exceed established goals for yield, quality, process capability, cycle time, and throughput prior to transfer to Manufacturing Operations.
- Enable manufacturing scale: Develop scalable manufacturing processes, tooling, fixturing, automation, and material flow that support long-term production growth.
- Resolve complex technical issues: Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for manufacturing issues, using data and structured problem-solving to improve process performance and product quality.

## Skills and Experience

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or another technical field.
- 10+ years of engineering experience in New Product Introduction and Process Engineering within advanced manufacturing environments.
- Subject matter expertise in mechanical and opto-mechanical assembly processes, including manufacturing equipment, tooling, fixturing, material flow, manufacturing automation, and final assembly, test, and pack.
- Deep understanding of manufacturing process development, process capability, process failure mode and effects analysis, and process validation.
- Proven success developing manufacturing processes from concept through production readiness.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional product industrialization efforts through technical influence and sound engineering judgment.
- Proven ability to partner with contract manufacturers to develop and validate manufacturing processes that enable high-volume manufacturing.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders across functions and organizations.

## Nice to Have

- Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or another engineering field.
- Experience applying Lean Six Sigma principles to supplier development, supplier performance, and manufacturing operations.

## 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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