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title: 'Talent Director at OLIX'
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# Talent Director at OLIX

- **Company:** OLIX
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/olix/b56fbbc0-418c-4576-9e45-a5b7288d6d38

## 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

The Talent Director owns how OLIX finds, wins and hires the people who will build it. You will take a talent function built for around 200 people and make it one that carries us confidently to 1,000, across London, Bristol, Austin, San Francisco and Toronto, without lowering the bar on a single hire. This is a hands on leadership role. You will personally lead our most senior and executive searches, and close people who are not looking. Many of the people we need exist in pools of a few dozen worldwide: III-V device engineers, advanced packaging architects, optical interconnect specialists, AI software engineers, silicon leaders who have taken a chip to production. Hiring them is a precision problem, not a volume one. You will build a team of recruiters as sharp as the engineers they hire, and set an AI strategy for recruiting that changes how we decide, not just how fast we work. The best argument wins here, and we expect you to make it, welcome challenges to it, and change your mind when the evidence says so.

## Responsibilities

- Build and scale the talent function from around 200 to 1,000 people: org design, hiring, priorities and operating rhythm, in place before the headcount arrives
- Lead senior and executive searches directly, including the hires that signal the calibre of people joining OLIX
- Attract, hire and develop top Recruiters and Sourcers, and hold them to the same bar as our engineers
- Own the hiring bar: what great looks like for each role family, and how consistently every interviewer applies it
- Build the playbook for extremely scarce talent: mapping the market, building relationships early, and closing passive candidates
- Set OLIX's AI strategy for recruiting, deciding where AI improves our judgement and where people need to stay in the loop
- Own hiring systems, data and metrics, and partner with the exec team on workforce planning, including saying when a plan is not hireable as written
- Build OLIX's talent brand so the best people in photonics, silicon and AI know who we are

## Skills & Experience

- Has built and led a talent function through hyper-growth, from a few hundred people toward 1,000 or beyond, while keeping quality high. This is non-negotiable
- Has attracted and developed top recruiters, and can name the people who would come with you
- Has worked where talent density is top 1% (a frontier AI lab, a leading semiconductor or hardware company, or an elite deep tech scale-up) and knows what that bar looks and feels like
- Has personally led senior and executive searches into niche, extremely limited talent pools
- A clear point of view on AI in recruiting that goes beyond efficiency, with evidence of putting it into practice
- Either versed in deep tech already, or curious enough to go deep on product and technology and hold your own with engineers
- Influences through evidence and clear reasoning, not title, and is comfortable disagreeing directly in a founder-led environment

## Nice to Have

- Talent leadership at an AI lab, AI hardware company or semiconductor business
- Direct experience hiring in photonics, optoelectronics, advanced packaging, silicon or AI software
- Experience hiring across the UK and US and running a multi-site function

## Compensation & Equity

- Competitive Salary: Commensurate with your experience, skills, and location
- Equity & Ownership: Meaningful stock options. You’re not just joining the mission; you’re owning a piece of it
- Proximity Bonus: We value your time. To minimise your commute and maximise your life, we offer an annual Living-Local Bonus if your residence is within 20 minutes of the office
- Retirement Benefits: Employer-contributed retirement plans to help you build long-term financial security

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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