Integrated Systems Lead

Ayosemi; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Equity

Job summary

Ayo? Ayosemi is seeking an Integrated Systems Lead to join a growing hardware and AI team in Boston.

You will interface across photonics, electronics, hardware and AI groups to ensure coherent system-level interfaces, schedules, and technical dependencies, then drive multi-team projects from kickoff to completion. You will validate performance with models and simulations, and serve as the main technical contact for government and commercial customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, or Physics.
• Proven ability to coordinate across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Experience with system-level models or simulations and technical reporting.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate across photonics, electronics, hardware and AI teams to align interfaces, timelines and dependencies.
• Drive cross-team projects from kickoff through completion and resolve bottlenecks.
• Ensure data collection and models/simulations validate system-level performance.
• Serve as primary technical and programmatic contact for government and commercial customers.
• Support proposals for government and commercial customers.
• Translate system-level requirements into scoped work across teams.
• Develop milestone-based execution plans with scheduling, resources and risk management.
• Track milestones, risks, and dependencies at the system level.

Skills

Systems engineering

Cross-team coordination

Technical communication

Modeling & simulations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, Physics

Tools

System modeling tools

Job description

Come build the future of compute with us.

Integrated Systems Lead

Job Details

Employment type: Full time
Location type: On-site
Location: Boston, MA

About Ayo

Ayo is a venture-backed early-stage startup that will radically redefine how humanity performs compute for AI. Our photonic processors will provide orders of magnitude improvement in speed and power efficiency in comparison to conventional digital compute platforms by taking advantage of the natural parallelism, speed and energy efficiency of light.

The Role

We are seeking an Integrated Systems Lead to join Ayo as a core member of our engineering team. You will sit at the intersection of our integrated photonics, integrated electronics, hardware, and AI teams, making sure the pieces come together into working prototypes and products. You will drive the technical rigor behind our system-level models and simulations, and serve as a key technical and programmatic point of contact for commercial and government customer interactions. This is a high-visibility role for someone who wants to own outcomes across disciplines, not just execute within one.

What You'll Do

• Coordinate across the integrated photonics, integrated electronics, hardware, and AI teams to keep system-level interfaces, timelines, and technical dependencies aligned
• Drive cross-team projects from kickoff through completion, identifying and resolving technical and organizational bottlenecks
• Ensure the engineering teams are collecting the right data and building the models and simulations needed to validate system-level performance
• Serve as a primary technical and programmatic point of contact for government and commercial customers, including preparing progress reports, technical briefings, and program review decks
• Support new business activities including writing proposals for government and commercial customers
• Translate system-level requirements into scoped technical work across teams
• Build and communicate milestone-based program execution plans, including scheduling, resource management, and risk management
• Track project milestones, technical risks, and dependencies at the system level

What We're Looking For

• Both deep and broad technical experience spanning multiple engineering disciplines in a hardware or deep-tech environment
• Prior experience with photonic systems
• Comfortable engaging deeply with technical work you did not personally design, and asking the right questions to keep it on track
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience producing technical reports and stakeholder-facing presentations
• Experience with systems engineering practices such as requirements definition, verification planning, or cross-team technical coordination
• Experience building system-level models or simulations
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, Physics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on DARPA or other government-funded R&D programs
• Background in integrated photonics, semiconductors, or related hardware domains
• Startup or small-team experience

Why Ayo

You’ll be a foundational hire connecting our technical teams to our external stakeholders, shaping how the company communicates progress and how our subsystems come together.

We are working on a genuinely hard and interesting problem: unseating the GPU as the dominant AI compute platform.

Early-stage means real ownership, real impact, and meaningful equity.

Competitive salary. Equity commensurate with stage and seniority. Benefits package including health, dental, and vision.

Fully onsite in Boston. We are a collaborative, in-person team.