--- title: 'UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) at Axelera AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/uk-electronics-skills-foundation-ukesf-axelera-ai-united-kingdom-g906h2fnn597' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) at Axelera AI - **Company:** Axelera AI - **Location:** United Kingdom - **Employment:** internship - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/axelera/7f6172b1-76d9-4289-9e79-b935ef753d33 ## Job description This is the page to register your interest in opportunities with Axelera AI following the UK Electronics Skills Foundation event on 8 September 2026 The deadline to share your information: 10 PM local time, Tuesday 15 September 2026 ## About Axelera AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Axelera AI develops cutting-edge AI hardware and software platforms for accelerating inference at the edge, using proprietary digital in-memory computing technology. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: Eindhoven, Netherlands - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Not publicly listed on primary sources ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: AI Hardware (Semiconductors), Edge AI Inference, Computer Vision - **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, and SMBs across industrial manufacturing, security & surveillance, retail, robotics, and healthcare - **Mission or purpose statement**: "To lead the democratization of Artificial Intelligence, offering faster, easy-to-use AI acceleration while minimizing power and cost, to simplify AI at the Edge." [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story) ## Products & Services - **Metis® AIPU (AI Processing Unit)**: A family of edge inference accelerators starting at 214 TOPs, available in M.2 and PCIe form factors (1-AIPU and 4-AIPU cards). Delivers 15 TOPs/W energy efficiency. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/) - **Europa® AIPU**: A higher-performance AI accelerator (629 TOPs) for demanding edge and near-edge workloads, setting a new industry benchmark for performance, power efficiency, and affordability. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/) - **Titania® Chiplet**: A future chiplet designed to scale the D-IMC architecture from edge to cloud. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story) - **Voyager® SDK**: A software development kit with 100+ pre-optimized models, enabling deployment from model to production in hours, not weeks. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/) - **Metis AI Platform**: Complete edge AI systems (M.2 and PCIe accelerator cards) bundling the Metis AIPU with the Voyager SDK for computer vision applications. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Total Funding**: Over $450 million in equity, grants, and venture debt since founding (July 2021). This includes a $250M+ Series C (the largest investment ever in an EU AI semiconductor company), led by Innovation Industries, with new investors BlackRock and SiteGround Capital. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $468.21M (per CB Insights). [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/axelera-ai) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Innovation Industries, European Innovation Council Fund, Invest-NL, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Verve Ventures, CDP Venture Capital SGR, Bitfury, Federal Holding and Investment Company of Belgium (SFPIM), imec, BlackRock, SiteGround Capital. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story) - **Growth Signals**: Ranked #3 in the Emerging Enterprise (201-999 Employees) category on Fast Company’s 2026 Most Innovative Companies list. Has taped out four chips since founding. Announced the Europa AIPU and Titania chiplet. Secured up to €61.6m from the EuroHPC DARE project. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story) ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary Digital In-Memory Computing (D-IMC)**: Performs matrix-vector multiplications in-place, eliminating data movement and delivering 50+ TOPs per core at FP32-equivalent accuracy. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/) - **Industry-Leading Energy Efficiency**: 15 TOPs/W, enabling high-performance AI inference at the edge without power or thermal constraints. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/) - **Full-Stack Solution**: Combines purpose-built hardware (AIPUs) with the Voyager SDK (100+ models, post-training quantization) for rapid deployment, significantly reducing time-to-value compared to GPU-based alternatives. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/) - **Scalable Architecture**: D-IMC and RISC-V dataflow architecture scales from edge to cloud via the Titania chiplet roadmap. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story) ## Strategic Focus - **Democratizing AI**: Making high-performance AI inference accessible, affordable, and energy-efficient for any environment (edge to cloud). [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story) - **Commercial Expansion**: Scaling global commercial growth following the $250M+ Series C, with a focus on building out sales and field application engineering teams in EMEA and the Americas. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers) - **Ecosystem & Partnerships**: Recently announced six new partnerships to expand the edge AI ecosystem. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/) - **Product Roadmap**: Scaling the D-IMC platform from edge (Metis) to near-edge (Europa) to cloud (Titania chiplet), targeting a full range of inference use cases. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story) ## Why Work Here - **High-Growth Environment**: A well-funded deep-tech startup (over $450M raised) with rapid commercial traction, ranked #3 on Fast Company’s 2026 Most Innovative Companies list. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers) - **Global & Remote-First Culture**: 248+ talented colleagues from 34 nationalities across 18 locations, with a strong remote/hybrid work policy. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers) - **Cutting-Edge Technology**: Work on proprietary D-IMC and RISC-V dataflow architecture, with a roadmap spanning edge to cloud. The team includes 39 PhDs. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers) - **Benefits**: Remote/flexible work, premium insurance, commute benefit, team-building activities, premium pension, work-life balance, cutting-edge equipment, fresh fruit at the office, and modern facilities. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers) - **Values-Driven Culture**: Values include "Think," "Focus on the Customer," "Move Fast," "Communicate Openly," and "Agree & Commit." Emphasis on freedom with responsibility. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers) - **Diverse & International**: 34 nationalities, average age 50+, with offices in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, and headquarters in Eindhoven. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers) ## Sources 1. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/) 2. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story) 3. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers) 4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/axelera-ai) 5. 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