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Staff Hardware Test & Bring-Up Engineer

Lightmatter · Mountain View, CA

CHECKED 13H AGO

Infrastructureonsitestaff$167k–$193k
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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
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