Full-Time

Director of Field Applications Engineering

Baya Systems

Baya Systems

51-200 employees

Develops software-driven NoC designs for SoCs

No salary listed

Cambridge, UK

Remote

Remote role in EU/UK with up to 30-40% international travel.

Bachelor's, Master's, PhD

Category
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Requirements
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related STEM field.
  • Management: 5+ years of experience managing customer-facing engineering teams (FAE or Technical Support).
  • Industry: 10+ years in the semiconductor, silicon IP, or high-performance networking sectors.
  • Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of Network-on-Chip (NoC), AMBA protocols (CHI, AXI, ACE), or PCIe/CXL fabrics.
  • Design Flow: Familiarity with front-end ASIC design, SoC architecture, RTL verification, and EDA tools (Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens).
  • Systems: Insight into AI/ML accelerators, data center architectures, and automotive SoC requirements.
  • Soft Skills & Logistics: Exceptional English verbal and written communication skills.
  • Soft Skills & Logistics: Proven experience managing teams and clients across diverse cultures in Europe and Asia.
  • Soft Skills & Logistics: Self-motivated style suited for a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment.
  • Travel: Willing to travel up to 30-40% internationally.
Responsibilities
  • Lead a distributed team of senior Field Applications Engineers across EU and APAC.
  • Recruit and onboard top-tier engineering talent in key regional hubs.
  • Provide continuous technical mentorship and professional development.
  • Set clear regional goals aligned with corporate business objectives.
  • Grow collaterals to enable improved efficiency and ease of adoption by the customer.
  • Partner with regional sales directors to secure high-value design wins.
  • Act as the escalations point for critical customer technical issues.
  • Oversee customer proof-of-concepts, evaluations, and architectural reviews.
  • Deliver technical keynotes, deep-dives, and product demonstrations to C-level executives.
  • Funnel regional customer requirements directly to internal R&D and Product Management.
  • Use market insights to shape the future fabric interconnect IP roadmap.
  • Create application notes, whitepapers, and training collateral for regional ecosystems.
Desired Qualifications
  • Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
  • Prior experience working in a fast-growing, venture-backed silicon IP startup.
  • Existing technical relationships with major Tier-1 semiconductor and system companies in the EU and APAC.
  • Additional language skills relevant to the covered regions (e.g., Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, German).

Baya Systems develops intelligent, software-driven Network on Chip (NoC) solutions to improve data movement in System on Chips and chiplets. Its flagship WeaveIP family uses a common transport fabric that can be tailored to any topology and supports custom protocols, with WeaverPro software that models and optimizes the network to meet target workloads, delivering up to 4 TB/s per cluster and scalable to multi-PB/s. The approach combines data-driven topology, a unified fabric for both coherent and non-coherent protocols, and a strong toolchain for performance guarantees and debugging. The goal is to enable scalable, cost-effective AI and data-center systems across AI accelerators, automotive, and IoT.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$36M

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Founded

2023

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • July 2026 Kandou AI deal expands Baya into 448G AI connectivity.
  • June 2026 Openchip and February 2026 Aion Silicon broaden European and RISC-V reach.
  • Open jobs in July 2026 signal hiring across engineering, finance, and customer programs.

What critics are saying

  • Revenue concentration risk: three partnerships do not prove repeatable design-win volume in 2026.
  • Synopsys, Cadence, and Arm can bundle adjacent IP, pressuring Baya's pricing.
  • If chiplet adoption slows, Baya's architecture-first pitch loses urgency by 2027.

What makes Baya Systems unique

  • WeaveIP and WeaverPro combine fabric IP with pre-silicon architecture validation.
  • Baya targets chiplets, AI, and RISC-V systems across heterogeneous compute.
  • Kandou AI, Openchip, and Aion Silicon licensed Baya during 2026.

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Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Company Equity

Performance Bonus

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

23%

1 year growth

23%

2 year growth

40%
HPCwire
Jul 14th, 2026
Baya Systems and Kandou AI partner to tackle AI Memory Wall.

Baya Systems and Kandou AI partner to tackle AI Memory Wall. July 14, 2026 Press play to listen to this content Baya's WeaveIP fabric and WeaverPro software accelerating architecture development for Kandou's 448G copper AI connectivity platform SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SAINT-SULPICE, Switzerland, July 14, 2026 - Baya Systems, a leader in software-defined fabric IP for AI and high-performance computing, and Kandou AI, a pioneer in high-speed connectivity for AI infrastructure, today announced a strategic IP licensing agreement. Kandou AI has licensed Baya's WeaveIP fabric and WeaverPro software platform and is actively deploying both across its architecture and development workflow for the next generation of its connectivity platforms to overcome the memory wall constraining further AI development. The collaboration also demonstrates how software-defined fabric architecture and advanced connectivity work together to address the data movement bottleneck limiting next-generation AI systems. Attacking the Memory Wall AI model growth has outpaced memory bandwidth by orders of magnitude. While compute has scaled 60,000x over two decades, interconnect has managed just 30x. This clear mismatch is stymieing further AI development, since data simply can't move at the speeds compute requires. Kandou AI's patented Copper MIMO technology (aka Chord Signaling) is closing that gap by sending correlated signals at real-time data processing speeds of 448 Gbps and beyond, providing the industry with strong alternatives to optical interconnects for a broad class of AI infrastructure applications. By using Copper Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology, Kandou can deliver 10X the efficiency of conventional alternatives at reduced power, costs and greater scalability. The economic impact is direct: faster, denser, cheaper AI systems. While Kandou advances the physical layer of AI connectivity, Baya's software defined fabric platform optimizes data movement for complex heterogeneous compute, memory, I/O on die and across multiple chiplets. Together, the technologies enable customers to architect AI systems that are not only faster, but also easier to design, validate, and scale. "Solving the memory wall is a system-level challenge. Our breakthrough signaling technology is only one part of a broader AI system. We need a fabric architecture that can move data with the precision and efficiency our products demand," said Srujan Linga, Co-Founder and CEO of Kandou AI. "Baya's WeaveIP complements our interconnect technology. We provide physical scalability, with WeaveIP providing logical scalability to system design. Users are seeing in practice that WeaverPro significantly accelerates development timeline". Software-Driven Architecture, Faster to Silicon Kandou AI selected WeaverPro to assist the exploration and validation of on-chip interconnect configurations, such as traffic class partitioning, QoS policy and protocol adaptation, before reaching the critical Register-Transfer Level phase of design and development. Because Baya's tiled implementation methodology assembles verified fabric primitives into a configurable architecture, Kandou AI anticipates significant acceleration of development cycles and time to market. "The tiled implementation approach is a genuine competitive advantage for teams working at our pace," Linga continued. "Baya's technical expertise and collaborative engagement has made them a true extension of our own engineering organization." A Partnership Built on Technical Alignment The engagement reflects a broader convergence: both companies are building for an AI infrastructure landscape where data movement, which gates the scaling of compute, is the chief challenge to be solved. It accelerates the trend in the semiconductor industry towards modular AI architectures, where innovation depends on combining best in class connectivity, compute, memory and system fabrics. "Kandou AI represents exactly the kind of customer Baya was designed to serve," said Dr. Sailesh Kumar, Founder and CEO of Baya Systems. "They are attacking a real and fundamental problem, and they need a fabric platform that pushes beyond the data movement limitations of traditional NoC and enables them to realize their ambition. WeaveIP and WeaverPro offer the architectural freedom and implementation velocity to achieve that without compromise." The engagement further validates Baya's growing role as the architectural foundation for next-generation AI infrastructure. As customers increasingly adopt chiplets, heterogeneous compute, and custom AI accelerators, software-defined fabrics are becoming a critical layer for optimizing data movement across the entire system. About Kandou AI Kandou AI is pioneering the next generation of connectivity for AI infrastructure. Its innovative Copper MIMO (aka Chord Signaling) technology - developed over more than a decade and rooted in information theory - enables high-speed, energy-efficient copper-based interconnects that extend performance beyond what conventional SerDes can achieve. Kandou AI is backed by leading technology investors including Maverick Silicon, BVP, Capital Group, SoftBank, Synopsys, Cadence and Alchip. About Baya Systems Baya Systems is a Series B semiconductor IP company pioneering software-defined, chiplet-ready fabric technology for AI, HPC, automotive and edge applications. Its WeaveIP fabric and WeaverPro software platform deliver a unified, protocol-agnostic interconnect solution purpose-built for the demands of next-generation AI systems. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Baya Systems is backed by leading technology investors and has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan for Technology Innovation Leadership in Semiconductor IP Interconnect Solutions. Scientists have relied on HPC facilities to help them process large volumes of data, execute... Raw performance has long been the benchmark for success in HPC. However, as AI and... It's easy to get bogged down micromanaging HPC infrastructure. But focus too much on one... The buzz of Hamburg, Germany over the past two days has been LineShine, the Chinese... 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Business Wire
Jun 11th, 2026
Baya Systems partners with Openchip on RISC-V AI compute using chiplet-ready fabric IP

Baya Systems, a semiconductor fabric IP company, has partnered with Openchip, a European semiconductor and AI systems leader. Openchip has licensed Baya's data-movement platform and Network-on-Chip fabric technology to develop next-generation intelligent compute solutions. Openchip will use Baya's WeaveIP unified fabric and WeaverPro FabricStudio platform to design RISC-V-based multi-chiplet systems for AI workloads. The technology enables architects to model and validate data movement architecture before physical silicon production, reducing development risk and optimising power-performance-area at scale. The partnership supports Baya's European expansion following its Cambridge office opening earlier this year. The company is evaluating locations for its first EU office. Barcelona-headquartered Openchip operates across six European countries: Spain, Italy, Poland, France, Germany and Ireland.

Embedded Computing Design
Jun 11th, 2026
Openchip adopts Baya Systems' WeaveIP fabric for AI and RISC-V platforms.

Openchip adopts Baya Systems' WeaveIP fabric for AI and RISC-V platforms. Production Editor Embedded Computing Design June 11, 2026 Baya Systems and Openchip announced the companies have entered a strategic partnership. Openchip is licensing Baya Systems' data-movement platform and Network-on-Chip (NoC) fabric technology to offer solutions enhanced for increasing demands of next-generation intelligent computing. Openchip will employ Baya's WeaveIP unified fabric to design specialized intelligent compute systems for AI workloads. Baya's WeaverPro FabricStudio platform enables Openchip to design and boost the development of RISC-V-based multi-chiplet systems. Openchip reduces development risk, cuts time-to-market, and optimizes power-performance-area (PPA) at scale by using Baya's software-driven platform to model and validate data movement architecture prior to committing to physical silicon. "The communication layer between memory and compute is the critical connective tissue of the AI stack. Our collaboration with Openchip enables them to address data movement explicitly and early to build their state-of-art systems with the performance and efficiency the market now demands within the ever-shrinking time-to-market window," said Dr. Sailesh Kumar, CEO and founder of Baya Systems. Chad Cox is the Production Editor at Embedded Computing Design. His responsibilities are centered around content creation, writing and editing, and article research and development. Chad covers industry news and events and is known to interact with various industrial leaders via on-premise visits and online interviews. He is responsible for the digital footprint and dissemination of news via social media posts, advertising creation and the production of newsletters including the Embedded Computing Design's Daily. He is well versed in many facets of industrial computing including Edge AI, IoT, Processing, Security, Open Source, and more. Chad graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a B.A. in Cultural and Analytical Literature and holds a master's in education.

Business Wire
Feb 23rd, 2026
Baya Systems partners with Aion Silicon to accelerate next-gen SoC and chiplet designs

Baya Systems, a semiconductor fabric IP company, has partnered with Aion Silicon to accelerate SoC and chiplet-based system designs. The collaboration combines Baya's WeaverPro FabricStudio platform and WeaveIP fabric technology with Aion's system architecture and silicon implementation expertise. The joint solution aims to reduce development risk and accelerate time-to-silicon for AI, high-performance computing and automotive applications. Baya's software-defined fabric provides data-movement infrastructure connecting compute, memory and accelerators, whilst Aion offers design and integration services for production-ready silicon. Early adopters are reportedly benefiting from improved performance predictability and faster production pathways. The partnership addresses critical challenges in handling heterogeneous compute elements like CPUs, GPUs and NPUs whilst maintaining deterministic performance. Both companies are expanding their teams to meet growing customer demand.

engineering.com
Nov 13th, 2025
Baya Systems opens first European office in the U.K.

Baya Systems opens first European office in the U.K. New Cambridge site expands Baya's presence and supports collaboration on next-generation semiconductor and AI system development. Baya Systems announced the opening of its first European office in the U.K. The move represents a strategic step in Baya's global growth, expanding its reach into Europe's rapidly accelerating semiconductor ecosystem and deepening partnerships in the AI, datacenter, infrastructure and high-performance computing domains. The new Cambridge office will serve as both a regional headquarters and strategic collaboration hub, enabling closer engagement with European customers, research institutions and partners building next-generation chiplet-based, AI-optimized systems. The European semiconductor market's impact on the global compute landscape continues to grow, driven by major public investments such as the EU Chips Act, the European Processor Initiative and the U.K.'s semiconductor innovation investments. Baya's new office allows the company to directly capitalize on these investments and access a highly skilled pool of talent in the U.K. to augment the nucleus of senior staff already in the region. Baya's growing footprint. The Cambridge office joins Baya's global network of design centers in Santa Clara, Austin and Bengaluru. With senior engineering and commercial staff already in place in the U.K. and plans to hire more across Europe, the office represents a new node in a globally integrated innovation fabric connecting talent and customers from North America to Europe and Asia. Baya's international workforce now also spans Canada, Japan and Israel, reflecting the company's commitment to employing top global talent to accelerate intelligent compute everywhere. Furthermore, the U.K. office will act as a strategic center for co-development with partners such as Semidynamics focusing on open, modular and scalable system architectures. These initiatives build on Baya's leadership in software-driven high-throughput, chiplet-ready fabric for AI acceleration and scale-up networking across both Arm(R) and RISC-V-based systems. Since emerging from stealth in June 2024, Baya has achieved hypergrowth driven by customer adoption of its software-defined fabric IP and system modeling solutions. Customers across the semiconductor and AI ecosystem, including Tenstorrent, have integrated Baya technologies to unlock performance-per-watt advantages, streamline design cycles and scale compute across heterogeneous architectures.