Baya Systems Expands Bengaluru Engineering Hub to Support AI, Automotive, and HPC Innovation

Key takeaways

• • Engineering investment is increasingly focused on the “plumbing” of AI systems, interconnect and fabric technologies, as scaling becomes a data-movement challenge, not just a compute challenge.
  • Baya’s expanded engineering hub is located at Brigade Metropolis, Bengaluru and officially opened on January 14, 2026.
  • Hiring signal: The Bengaluru team has grown from five employees in 2023 to 50+ engineers, with plans to exceed 100 by the end of 2026.

Baya Systems, a Santa Clara-based semiconductor software and systems IP company, has officially opened its expanded engineering hub in Bengaluru, underscoring the company’s strategic investment in global talent and the urgent industry shift toward AI-scale infrastructure, chiplet architectures, and high-performance data movement.

Founded in 2023, Baya has rapidly scaled its Bengaluru operations from a small team of five engineers to over 50 today. The company now projects headcount exceeding 100 by late 2026 as part of a broader plan to accelerate delivery of its software-defined semiconductor fabric technologies for AI, HPC, automotive, and data center systems.

“Our extended engineering centre in Bengaluru is central to developing and delivering our unified fabric technologies that power scalable, high-performance, chiplet-based systems worldwide,”

Scaling AI is becoming a data movement problem

As AI models grow in size and complexity, the industry is confronting a stark reality: compute horsepower alone no longer defines scale. Instead, efficient data transport within and between chips is becoming the limiting factor in performance. In complex, multi-die, chiplet-based systems, traditional interconnects and networks on chips (NoCs) can become bottlenecks, inducing latency and power inefficiencies that undermine performance goals.

Baya’s approach centers on software-driven, unified fabric technologies that abstract the complexity of protocols, optimize data flow, and enable seamless scale. These fabrics support popular interconnect standards and offer modular, high-throughput performance, delivering data movement at levels comparable to compute scaling demands.

Bengaluru as a strategic engineering hub

India’s technology centers, especially Bengaluru, are widely recognized for deep talent in software engineering, hardware verification, and system-level design. Baya’s expansion taps directly into this ecosystem, adding local strength to its global innovation footprint.

“Global demand for AI, data center, and HPC infrastructure is surging, fueled by an increased shift towards chiplet-based, software-defined architectures,”

This expansion aligns with broader industry momentum: many AI and semiconductor companies are prioritizing interconnect innovation and modular architectures as key enablers of future performance gains.

Baya’s capital backing underscores confidence in this vision. In January 2025, the company raised over $36 million in a Series B round led by Maverick Silicon, with strategic participation from Synopsys, Matrix Partners, and Intel Capital  that has accelerated product development and global hiring.

The company’s technology is gaining recognition across the ecosystem. In October 2025, Baya was named Andes Technology’s 2025 Partner of the Year for collaborative work on scalable RISC-V based systems, with Baya’s unified transport fabric enabling efficient, high-performance integration

Looking Ahead

Baya’s Bengaluru expansion is part of a broader global strategy that includes design centers in Santa Clara (USA), Austin (USA), and Cambridge (UK) that collectively aim to accelerate innovation cycles, deepen regional collaboration, and support a diverse set of customers and partners across North America, Europe, and Asia.

“The era of siloed innovation is over. Meeting the demands of AI and high-performance computing requires deep collaboration,” Sailesh Kumar “Our partnerships and engineering investments are accelerating that transition.”

With the AI infrastructure market scaling rapidly and data movement becoming a defining metric of system performance, Baya’s expanded engineering presence in Bengaluru positions the company to contribute to both regional talent development and the broader evolution of computing architectures that power the future.