Senior Staff Design Verification Engineer, Lightmatter

Salary not provided

+ Stock Option Plan

Python
Expert level
Toronto
Lightmatter

Light-powered AI computing

Open for applications

Lightmatter

Light-powered AI computing

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingDeep TechMachine LearningScience

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Stock Option Plan

Python
Expert level
Toronto

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.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 12 years of design verification and SystemVerilog experience
  • 2+ years of experience in python
  • Expertise in developing the UVM library
  • Experience with simulators such as Xcelium, ModelSim, Questa, or VCS

Desirable

  • Master’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Experience with AMS verification
  • Experience in formal verification
  • Strong problem solver, communicator, and team player
  • Subject matter expert on technical areas listed under the requirements
  • Previous leadership experience
  • Communicates complex concepts effectively to diverse stakeholders, fostering support and consensus for initiatives

What the job involves

  • Lightmatter has created a solution in photonic computing: using photons instead of electrons to take advantage of their higher bandwidth
  • We build chips for artificial intelligence computing
  • Our architecture leverages the unique properties of light to enable fast and efficient inference and training engines
  • As a Design Verification Engineer at Lightmatter, you will find yourself at the heart of a dynamic, interdisciplinary team
  • Your role will involve close collaboration with our digital design experts, using UVM testbench techniques to rigorously verify their designs
  • Your responsibilities will include working alongside photonic and analog designers, gaining a deep understanding of their innovative designs, and applying Real Number Modeling (RNM) and AMS verification methods
  • This critical function ensures the integrity of their work
  • Your interaction with the Architecture team will be crucial in comprehending system requirements and spearheading performance verification
  • This role offers a unique platform to enhance your skills across a spectrum of areas including UVM, AMS modeling, mixed-signal verification, formal verification, emulation, and both performance modeling and verification
  • Engage collaboratively with teams specializing in digital, photonics, and analog design to develop comprehensive test plans
  • Design and implement UVM testbenches for both subsystem-level and full-chip verification. This includes debugging testbenches, resolving issues, achieving high coverage, and overseeing the final sign-off on Design Verification (DV)
  • Develop Real Number Models (RNM) for photonics and analog circuits, conduct AMS verification in conjunction with UVM, and ensure precise model representation
  • Contribute significantly to the development of the Golden Reference Model (GRM) for design verification
  • Play an integral role in the execution of emulation and formal verification for DV purposes

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

Leadership

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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