Arago is a Paris-based hardware startup building energy-efficient AI processors that blend silicon and photonics. Its stack spans the full chip lifecycle, from Verilog/SystemVerilog, UVM and Cadence Virtuoso through SerDes and mixed-signal simulation to a compiler layer on LLVM, MLIR, CUDA and PyTorch, signaling a vertically integrated hardware-plus-software play. Hiring is accelerating and overwhelmingly senior engineering, pointing to a push toward early silicon bring-up.
Arago develops a computing platform that sits at the intersection of semiconductors, optics and AI, with a focus on energy-efficient processing for AI workloads. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Paris, the privately held company has 11–50 employees and operates across France, Israel and California. Its work covers custom tensor and multiphysics compute units, optical chip verification, board and mechanical design, and a software toolchain for running ML models on its hardware. Current hiring is concentrated in France and Israel.
Arago uses Verilog, SystemVerilog, UVM and Cadence Virtuoso for chip design, LLVM, MLIR, CUDA and PyTorch for its AI software stack, plus Slurm, LSF, COMSOL, ANSYS and Altium Designer.
Arago is building a custom tensor unit for AI/ML, a custom multiphysics computation unit, next-generation optical chip verification, and post-silicon validation for its SoCs.
Arago is hiring in France and Israel, with an accelerating, engineering-dominated mix weighted toward senior hardware and software roles.
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