Lumilens
Photonic optical interconnect products for scaling AI data center networks, sold to hyperscale AI providers
Highlights
- Hiring2 open roles
- New on EvolcAdded 2026-10-16
- Remote-friendly1 of 2 open roles remote or hybrid
About Lumilens
Lumilens develops silicon photonics, light sources, optical interposers and mixed-signal ICs for optical interconnects in AI infrastructure. Its LumiCore platform is presented as the common basis for pluggable, NPO (near-packaged optics) and CPO (co-packaged optics) products, covering both scale-out and scale-up architectures.
The company's customers are hyperscale AI providers. The website states that Lumilens is shipping optical interconnect products into production hyperscaler AI data centers under a multi-billion-dollar customer agreement. Its revenue comes from these hardware products.
The website describes the company as founded by a team with prior experience at Cisco, Juniper, Meta, Lumentum and Coherent, and it says it is backed by venture capital investors. A press release on the site reports funding of $900M+, and a media article cited on the site reports a valuation of $5.5 billion. Open roles listed on the careers page are in Cracow, Poland and San Jose, and the company also refers to India/APAC teams. The founding year is not stated.
Product: LumiCore photonic platform for pluggable, NPO and CPO optical interconnects used in AI data centers.
Open jobs (2)
Senior Staff Software Engineer (MES & Distribution Systems)
New on EvolcRemote-friendlySenior Software Engineer
New on EvolcRemote-friendly
Leadership
- Dave Friedman · VP Operations & founderSource: company website
- Ritesh Kapahi · VP/GM India & founderSource: company website
- Ankur Singla · CEO & founderSource: company website
- Mark Weiner · CMOSource: company website
- Ted Schmidt · CTO & founderSource: company website
- Harish Devanagondi · VP Engineering, SiliconSource: company website
- Samuel Liu · VP Products & founderSource: company website
Tech stack
- AWS
- Ashby
- Cloudflare
- Google Analytics 4
- Webflow