Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Lightmatter
BMC
$150-200k
+ Stock Option Plan
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Light-powered AI computing
Open for applications
Light-powered AI computing
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$150-200k
+ Stock Option Plan
Office located in 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
- BS or higher in computer/software engineering, electrical engineering, or related field
- 8+ years of industry experience with device driver and kernel side development
- Strong experience with OpenBMC, DMTF standards, and PLDM
- Strong understanding of computer architecture and hardware-software integration
- Experience in firmware development in one or more of the following microcontrollers/architectures: RISC-V, PIC32 / MIPS, Arm, STM
- Practical knowledge on communication and control in embedded systems in one or more of the following: MDIO, PCIe, SMBus / I2C, SPI, USB, JTAG
- Experience with developing commercial/enterprise level software and firmware
Desirable
- Proficiency with Python or C++
- Familiarity with software / firmware security implementations, including the secure boot process, TPM and root of trust
- Knowledge of one or more RTOS: FreeRTOS, NuttX, ThreadX, Zephyr
What the job involves
- We are hiring a talented software engineer to help us build the next generation of photonic AI processors and interconnects
- In this role, you will be responsible for developing and extending the device-software and firmware stack for Photonic Compute and Photonic interconnect products
- You will be collaborating with other software teams as well as hardware systems teams to develop security, telemetry, and remote administration functionality
- Enhance DataCenter administration capabilities using environments such as OpenBMC and Redfish
- Manage link configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance on our groundbreaking optical networking for ML data center environments
- Manage secure device bring-up for first silicon
- Develop diagnostics/monitoring capabilities using prototype environments
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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