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Photonics Hardware Validation Engineer

Lightmatter · Mountain View, CA

CHECKED 15H AGO

Infrastructureonsite$177k–$240k
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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
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