Lightmatter
Photonic Architect, Temp
Toronto, ON · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$53k-$70kDetected 8 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
- You will focus on the interaction between photonic effects and the performance of SerDes, drivers and TIAs. You will find creative solutions to maintain excellent error rates in our optical communications products, at ever-increasing throughput and density.
- With an increasingly large number of processor chips needing to be networked together to support the growing demands of AI, Lightmatter is creating engines that send data between processors using photons instead of electrons.
Requirements
- Experience with optical link simulations in commercial tools such as VPIphotonics, Matlab, Virtuoso or ADS.
- Experience with Python programming.
- Pursuing a PhD in Photonics, Optics, or Electrical Engineering with a specialization in optical communications.
- Highly motivated to learn about commercial applications of silicon photonics and optical communications.
- Courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in electromagnetics (wave propagation, guided waves), semiconductor devices, semiconductor physics, optics, scientific computing, numerical methods, signals and systems, statistics, thermal physics, analog electronics.
- Understanding of data collection and analysis.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- This role is located in Lightmatter's Toronto office.
- We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data.
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.
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
Company info
- We are hiring a temporary employee at the PhD level for our Photonics Architecture team at Lightmatter!
- We are an optical interconnects company enabling the next generation of power efficient AI datacenters.
- You will be part of the Passage transceiver product architecture team, focused on Photonic Architecture. - You will focus on the interaction between photonic effects and the performance of SerDes, drivers and TIAs.
- You will be part of the Passage transceiver product architecture team, focused on Photonic Architecture.
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