Lightmatter
Staff/Sr Staff Technical Program Manager, Hardware Systems
Mountain View, CA · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$189k-$210kDetected 20 days ago
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About the role
- Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress.
- The company invented the world's first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads.
- Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion.
Responsibilities
- Own program coordination across all HW Systems activities: maintain an integrated schedule across all concurrent projects and workstreams, surface priority conflicts, and drive resolution of resource contention with engineering leads.
- Drive cross-functional alignment between HW Systems and other teams: setting agendas, facilitating meetings, capturing decisions, communicating delays and risks, and relentlessly following up on action items
- Manage team-wide resource loading and capacity visibility, partnering with engineering leads to flag overallocation risks and drive trade-offs discussions across concurrent programs
- Build and maintain integrated program schedules that reflect hardware development realities - bring-up milestones, NPI phases, EVT/DVT/PVT gates, and cross-team dependencies
- Own program scope that lives outside formal project charters: tester boards, demos, lab fixtures, calibration equipment, and internal engineering tools that teams depend on but that would otherwise lack dedicated ownership
- partner with supply chain to ensure critical materials land on schedule
- own the team's program interface to broader organizational stakeholders, communicating schedule changes, material needs, and engineering commitments proactively and clearly
- Track HW Systems budgets for engineering activities, prototype builds, and tooling
- Coordinate material flow within the HW Systems team: track component orders, PCB fab runs, PCBA and mechanical assemblies, and engineering samples; partner with supply chain to ensure critical materials land on schedule
- Represent the HW Systems team in company-wide program reviews and cross-functional planning cadences; own the team's program interface to broader organizational stakeholders, communicating schedule changes, material needs, and engineering commitments proactively and clearly
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of program management experience in hardware engineering, with direct exposure to electrical and mechanical development cycles.
- Proven track record managing concurrent engineering programs with shared resources and overlapping timelines.
- Hands-on experience with material flow, component tracking, and BOM management.
- This is a hands-on role that combines strong program management fundamentals with a working knowledge of hardware engineering.
- Deep familiarity with hardware development processes and terminology across the full lifecycle-including PCBA and mechanical enclosures, PCB fabrication, system integration, bring-up, EVT/DVT/PVT, and production-enabling clear communication with engineers and vendors.
- Proven experience coordinating with contract manufacturers (CMs) and ODMs to manage schedules, track deliverables, and resolve open issues.
- Skilled facilitator who drives productive meetings, captures critical context, and ensures action items are owned and closed.
- Strong written and verbal communicator, comfortable presenting program status and risk assessments to engineering leads and executives.
- Expert in project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Smartsheet, or equivalent platforms.
- Strong bias for action-consistently closes loops, follows up independently, and identifies potential slips before they impact project timelines.
- Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments; proactively creates structure and drives clarity without waiting for complete information.
Nice to have
- Experience managing programs for complex hardware development
- Experience defining and improving program management processes in a startup or new business unit
- This role is open to two different levels.
- Staff: $189,000 - $210,000
- Sr Staff: $217,000 - $252,000
Compensation
- total compensation goes beyond base salary, it also includes a new hire equity grant, annual performance-based equity, and other rewards that recognize your impact and contribution.
- $189,000 - $252,000 USD
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Savings Matching Program
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Paid Family Leave
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Commuter Benefits
- Equity grants (applicable to full-time employees)
- Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.
- Flexible, hybrid workplace model
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