Photonics Hardware Validation Engineer
Lightmatter · Mountain View, CA
CHECKED 15H AGO
Infrastructureonsite$177k–$240k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build photonic test systems critical to product characterization and validation.
- Drive chip bring-up and validation of next-gen optical interconnect products.
- Work on the world's first 3D-stacked photonics engine for AI data centers.
What they offer
- 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
- Training & Development
- Commuter Benefits
- Flexible, hybrid workplace model
- New hire equity grant and annual performance-based equity
Ideal candidate
Hands-on lab engineer passionate about photonics and building test systems, who thrives in cross-functional teams and loves bringing complex chips to life through debugging and validation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field
- Hands-on experience with bench test equipment for data communications including electro-optic link testing
- Experience in electro-optic link-level testing and characterization in lab environment
- Familiarity with PCB design including hardware testing and debugging of electro-optic circuits
- Ability to collaborate with cross-functional design and software teams to drive chip bring-up
- Basic scripting skills for lab test automation, analysis and reporting
- Solid understanding of electrical and optical blocks in transmitters and receivers
- Ability to troubleshoot electrical-optical blocks to triage bugs and root-cause gaps
- remote policy
- Flexible, hybrid workplace model
Lab profile
About Lightmatter
Building 3D-stacked photonics engines connecting AI processors at light speed for data centers.
What they build
- Passage™ 3D-stacked photonics engine
- Photonic interconnects for AI / HPC data centers
Known for
- Silicon photonics
- 3D-stacked packaging
- High-speed analog / mixed-signal design
- Electro-optic systems
Key facts
- Raised $400M Series D
- $4.4 billion valuation