Photonics Test, Intern

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Mountain View, CA
In-Office
41-55 Annually
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Machine Learning • Software • Semiconductor
We’re Lightmatter, the photonic (super)computer company.
The Role

Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company invented the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads.

Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion. We will continue to accelerate the development of data center photonics and grow every department at Lightmatter!

If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders.

Lightmatter is (re)inventing the future of computing with light!

About this Role

We are hiring an Intern for our Product Engineering team at Lightmatter. In this role you’ll get the opportunity to learn how to leverage your silicon photonics educational background towards characterizing individual silicon photonics components to complex circuits. You will also learn concepts from prototyping and what it is needed to go into High Volume manufacturing (HVM).

Responsibilities
  • Test and characterization of silicon photonics components  including micro-rings.
  • Participate in testing and characterization of photonics chips/devices, leveraging hands-on laboratory experience, and working with various optical instruments.
  • Operate a range of equipment such as lasers, electro-optic modulators, semiconductor optical amplifiers, optical spectrum analyzers, optical vector analyzers, optical filters, Source Measurement Units (SMU), and high speed scopes.
  • Design and execute testing protocols for silicon photonics chips as well as subsystems.
  • Develop and implement automated testing and system interfacing through Python scripting.
Qualifications
  • Enrolled in a Master's program in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Photonics, or a related field
  • Knowledge of Silicon Photonics concepts
  • Experience with electro-optic testing of photonic components
  • Strong problem-solving skills for complex challenges
  • Familiarity with Python for automated testing and system interfacing
  • Data-driven mindset with analytical skills
  • Process-oriented with a structured approach to problem-solving
  • Ability to work independently in a lab environment
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
  • Enrolled in a PhD program in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Photonics, or a related field
  • Embedded systems experience.
  • Understanding of high speed PCBs and/or micro electronics

Our internship hourly rates are a standard pay determined based on the position and your location, year in school, degree, and experience.

Hourly Rate in USD
$41$55 USD
Benefits
  • 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
  • Equity grants

Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

Export Control

Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws. 

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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
105 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Lightmatter is a startup photonics company that has pioneered a new paradigm in processor chip architecture that uses photons instead of electrons. Now the leader in the photonic AI compute “space race,” this new class of high performance semiconductors is the foundation of Lightmatter’s mission to enable the growth of computing, reduce harmful emissions associated with this growth, and democratize computing for all.

Lightmatter's technology accelerates critical operations in deep neural networks, using an array of programmable photonic elements fabricated alongside transistors in conventional computer chip fabrication processes. Our close-knit team of engineers has created an integrated photonics chip and ultra-high performance interconnect that is faster, more efficient, and cooler than anything else on earth (or anything ever experienced before) to power the next giant leaps in human progress.

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