Lightmatter
Staff/Sr Staff Electrical Design Engineer
Mountain View, CA · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$186k-$250kDetected 50 days ago
Machine LearningA/B TestingProduct ManagementValuationSolidWorksAutoCADPCB DesignAltiumCadenceSystems EngineeringElectrical EngineeringResearch
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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
- Collaborate with the system architect and technical leads to define system-level hardware requirements and spec
- Electrical design of power, memory, and interconnect circuits, working in both the analog and digital domains
- Starting from fundamental concepts and system considerations you will develop conceptual designs, physical modeling, and simulations of chip-modules and systems
- Oversee and review PCB layout designs, providing complete and detailed electrical constraint rules
- Perform laboratory validation of boards and systems
- Lead integration with mechanical, software, IC, and other related teams
- Support contract manufacturing during prototype and production phase to resolve any issues
- Work with component vendors and other supply partners
- Staff Electrical Design Engineer
- You will lead and own HW systems efforts, collaborate closely with teams across hardware and software, including mechanical, packaging, and IC engineering, to design, integrate, troubleshoot and release system-level products at the leading edge of innovation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in lab experimentation, non-intrusive circuit debugging, and leading cross-functional integration teams
- Experience in working with thermal solutions for integrated circuits and their board level systems
- 8+ years of related experience in system-level electrical design, having successfully taken several products from concept to production.
- Proficient in schematic design using Cadence, Mentor, or Altium tool set (Altium preferred)
- In depth knowledge on VRMs, high speed SERDES, CPUs and various interfaces/protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet, QSPI, I3C, I2C, etc
- Familiar with Product Lifecycle Management tools, e.g. Oracle Agile, Arena, or Omnify PLM with an understanding of BOM and ECO management
Nice to have
- Experience designing electrical systems for networking or similar industries
- Knowledge of integrated circuit layout, and designing a carrier PCBA for it
- Familiarity with Systems Engineering principles
- Familiar with 3D Mechanical CAD tools, e.g. Solidworks or AutoCAD
- This role is open to two levels Staff and Sr Staff.
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.
- $186,000 - $250,000 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
Company info
- We are looking for a Staff Electrical Design Engineer to contribute to the development of the next generation of silicon photonics based artificial intelligence accelerators and interconnect products.
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