Staff Hardware Test & Bring-Up Engineer
Lightmatter · Mountain View, CA
CHECKED 13H AGO
Infrastructureonsitestaff$167k–$193k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead end-to-end bring-up of photonic ICs on system evaluation boards.
- Help scale 3D-stacked photonics for extreme-scale AI data centers.
- Partner with suppliers to take new hardware into high-volume manufacturing.
What they offer
- New hire equity grant and annual performance-based equity
- 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
Ideal candidate
Hands-on, deeply curious hardware engineer who loves first power-on debugging and thrives partnering across teams to take breakthrough products from lab bring-up to mass production.
Requirements
- Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related with 8+ years hands-on hardware bring-up and PCBA functional testing
- Experience with custom ATE loadboard/socket integration for complex ASICs/SoCs
- Expertise in validating multi-rail power-up/power-down sequences and dynamic load behaviors
- Deep mastery of JTAG, QSPI/QPI, I2C, and SPI communication protocols
- Experience driving hardware verification and integrating firmware diagnostic APIs with register read/write
- Advanced proficiency in Python or C/C++ for test executives and lab instrumentation control
- Expert hands-on command of DMMs, SMUs, programmable supplies, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers
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