ML Hardware Accelerator Modeling, Lightmatter

$180-225k

Python
C++
Senior level
Boston
San Francisco Bay Area
Lightmatter

Light-powered AI computing

Job no longer available

Lightmatter

Light-powered AI computing

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingDeep TechMachine LearningScience

Job no longer available

$180-225k

Python
C++
Senior level
Boston
San Francisco Bay Area

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingDeep TechMachine LearningScience

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.

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.

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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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Benefits

  • 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
  • Commuter benefit
  • Happy hour -Spend time together and build friendships

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.

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Dec 2023

$155m

SERIES C

Jun 2023

$154m

SERIES C

Total funding: $422m

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Founders

Previously worked as an R&D Product Engineer at Micron Technology, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT.

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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