Principal Electro-optical IC Design Engineer

Lightmatter builds chips for artificial intelligence computing that leverage unique properties of light for efficient computing and communications. If you're a collaborative engineer or scientist who has a passion for innovation, solving challenging technical problems, and doing impactful work...work like building the world's first optical computers, consider joining the team at Lightmatter!

Join a tight-knit team where each individual’s contributions directly influence the company's and product's success. You'll have the opportunity to build a new kind of computer from the ground up and to solve groundbreaking challenges along the way. Work with people who love to build and who thrive in technically diverse environments where great ideas are prioritized.

Position Location: Mountain View, CA or Boston, MA

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our product development teams (system, packaging, digital, photonics) to translate system-level requirements into electrical design specifications down to the block and micro-architecture level
• Working closely with our system-level architects, contribute to circuit-level assessments and design tradeoffs for high-performance electro-optic data links
• Design of high speed data rate communications blocks including electrical SerDes,  sub-components such as PLLs, CDRs, digital or analog equalizers and optical transceivers
• Work closely with the physical design group to integrate analog IP at the chip level
• Define and run top-level verification and modeling of analog and mixed-signal systems from behavioral model to transistor level
• Define test plans (validation/characterization/debug)
• Mentor junior engineers