Staff Test Software Development Engineer, Lightmatter
$135-180k
+Stock Option Plan
2+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Light-powered AI computing
Job no longer available
Light-powered AI computing
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$135-180k
+Stock Option Plan
2+ days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
101-200 employees
Company mission
Lightmatter's mission is to build an engine that will power discoveries, drive progress, and redefine what computers and human beings are capable of.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in developing test SW automation
- Solid experience with Python, C, or C++ to develop and deploy test sw solutions
- Experience developing driver software that interfaces and controls hardware devices over USB, serial, or GPIB etc
- Knowledge of cloud and database technologies such as AWS/SQL will be a big plus
- Proven experience in deploying and maintaining manufacturing test programs to production facilities
- Previous experience in photonics test sw development will be a great advantage
Desirable
- Experience working in HVM environment from NPI to Mass Production
- Previous SW test development experience in the Photonics Industry
What the job involves
- In this role as a part of the product engineering team you will be focused on High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) test development for various platforms for Lightmatter’s silicon photonics products
- You will lead the effort in setting up the test software architecture for various test applications including photonics wafer, packager and laser testing
- Design and develop the test software infrastructure including tools, frameworks, and reporting mechanisms in test software
- Collaborate with test and design team members to develop effective testing strategies as well as quality metrics for new and existing test features
- Write test SW automation and release/maintain a bug free production level test software
- Responsible for developing/integrating test algorithms, in addition to interfacing with hardware/equipment using vendor and internal APIs
- Help build algorithms to meet data logging requirements by working closely with the data engineering team
Our take
Neural networks and CPUs are vital to AI solutions, but manufacturers have largely failed to maintain innovation in recent years. Lightmatter solves this problem by offering a next-generation computing platform powered by photonics (light waves).
Lightmatter offers a forward-facing platform for AI-building that acts as an alternative to traditional solutions. It works by replacing wired CPUs with a combination of photonics and new algorithms. Lightmatter's solution is not only faster, but it is considerably more sustainable, and it has the potential to drive the next generation of AI development.
As of 2022, Lightmatter has raised $113 million across three funding rounds, which is testament to growing industry demand for faster, more effective AI-building solutions. Lightmatter currently has three products on the market - Envise, Passage, and Idiom - and is poised to take on the incumbent chiplet industry with a photonics-based alternative.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2023
$155m
SERIES C
Jun 2023
$154m
SERIES C
Total funding: $422m
Company benefits
- Commuter benefit
- Happy hour -Spend time together and build friendships
- Generous vacation policy and holidays
- 401(K)
- Opportunity to learn from your peers and teach them what you know across electronics, photonics, machine learning, and more
Company values
- WORK WIDE & PARALLEL: Working on hard problems, we have to go down many different paths quickly to find the right one.
- QUESTION EVERYTHING: People have opinions about what things work and what things don’t work. They’re not always right.
- LET FIRST PRINCIPLES GUIDE YOU: Stand behind statements that you know are true and build something amazing.
- DON'T BE DEFINED BY YOUR JOB TITLE: Many great ideas occur at the boundaries between disciplines.
- BE KIND: Help build the environment you want to work in.
- TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR WORK: Everyone’s contributions are critical to the company’s success.
Company HQ
Financial District, Boston, MA
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Leadership
Nicholas Harris
(CEO)Previously worked as an R&D Product Engineer at Micron Technology, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT.
Thomas Graham
(COO)Was an M&A Analyst at Morgan Stanley, and worked as an Agency Business Development Manager at Google.
Darius Bunandar
(Chief Scientist)Worked as a Research Collaborator at Caltech, and was a PhD Candidate at MIT.
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