System Integration Engineer (Mountain View)

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Mountain View, CA
189K-235K 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!

We are seeking a motivated and dedicated engineer to help develop a platform for the next-generation artificial intelligence server alongside a team of world-class scientists and engineers.

System integrators work with software, hardware, and high powered lasers to build  computing and communication systems. They combine subsystems into a single integrated solution. At Lightmatter, system integrators collaborate with electrical and mechanical design teams to provide guidance on complex design and assembly solutions. 


Responsibilities

  • Work with system architects to specify, research, and identify modules and off-the-shelf components to satisfy product requirements
  • Keep up to date with the latest trends, technologies, and products in the computing and communications space
  • Work with outside design firms and service bureaus to communicate goals and objectives and review their progress against agree upon deliverables and timelines
  • Assist in the execution of project development, ensuring the project follows product lifecycle gates and milestones
  • Collaborate with all design teams, including system architects, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, packaging engineering, PCB layout, and software/firmware engineering to drive and resolve integration issues
  • Create/Maintain system level Bills of Materials in Arena PLM. Work with supply chain to ensure material readiness/availability


Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (or other related fields)
  • 10+ years of experience in embedded system design with multiple successful product releases
  • Expertise in design and validation of complex electronic circuits including PCIe, high current/low voltage DC/DC regulators, memory, interconnect, FPGAs and microcontrollers
  • Familiar with data transmission principles and techniques (NRZ, PAM4, FEC, gearboxes, etc).
  • Familiar with system and component level thermal management challenges, options, and solutions which may include fans, heatsinks, cold plates,or peltier devices.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of experience in embedded system design with multiple successful product releases
  • Familiar with optical interconnect technologies (transceivers, SM and MM fiber, etc)
  • Familiar with high power lasers for use in data communication systems


We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data.

Salary Range

$189,000$235,000 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
  • Stock Option Plan

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.


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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
105 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
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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