SLM is a compute infrastructure company in California focused on advanced-capability systems. We are currently operating in stealth mode, and this site's copy has intently been written for opacity.
We're developing architectures for environments where the physics is especially forbidding. Our first-generation systems are targeted at delivering high-performance compute in constrained packages combining advanced heterogeneous integration process nodes with physically resilient design and SEU-tolerant error correction.
This is a new class of high-performance architectures we've been working on for over three years of applied R&D in miniaturized supercomputer, advanced materials, circuit complexity, and superchip design.
These systems target complex and compute-intensive problems with unmatched compute, higher parallelism, fault-tolerance, and scalability than current architectures that can be deployed outside geomagnetic shielding, beyond Earth's magnetosphere, and in the most demanding terrestrial operating conditions.
Be part of our teamOur focus
We're currently doing applied research and engineering in stealth but carefully enlisting strong engineers, researchers, and generalists to our core team. Our primary focus areas are computer architecture, nanofabrication and advanced materials, hardware-software codesign, and operations.
We are obsessed with advanced systems and are particularly intent on finding people who share this rigor and obsession for system design, development, and deployment.
Technical priorities
System architecture: Specialized processor designs combining massive parallelism, accelerated math operations, and novel algorithm and domain-specific workloads. This includes custom circuit topologies optimized for computational density, advanced numerical methods, and adaptive performance under physical constraints.
Hardware integration: Integrated circuit layers with high-bandwidth memory systems, efficient data handling, hardware-software cryptography and encryption, and advanced-material interconnect fabrics. Our throughline is integrated heterostructure devices and resilient micro-electromechanical systems for extreme environments.
How we operate
SLM is a high-cadence startup and we finance our own capabilities privately.
Our structure is focused on building for volume and platform scalability. This structure also allows us to control our R&D conviction and marshal substantial resources to fulfill our mission and infrastructure projects over very long-term but rapid cycles targeted both at deployment and capabilities-introduction.
We have a vertically integrated business and are able to focus on continuously producing advanced systems and products in real complex missions with our customers and partners.
Please send us a note if you want to join our team and do work that matters and scales.