Photonic Chip Firmware Validation Engineer (Hybrid)

Lightmatter; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity grants

Hybrid workplace

Retirement savings matching

Job summary

Lightmatter is hiring a Chip Firmware Validation Engineer to develop and validate the device software and firmware stack for Photonic Compute and Photonic Interconnect products. You will collaborate across software and hardware teams to drive validation, testing, data analysis, and stack optimization.

Join a tight-knit team where your contributions directly impact the next generation of photonic AI processors and interconnects, in a hybrid California workplace.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5+ years of ASIC firmware validation.
• Strong understanding of hardware-software integration.
• Practical knowledge of communication and control in embedded systems, peripherals, and buses.
• Experience in embedded software development.
• Experience with Linux software/firmware development and Git/CMake.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across a multidisciplinary team to define the control architecture for photonic interconnect products.
• Drive the software and firmware validation testing for photonic products.
• Debug and troubleshoot embedded systems using GDB, JTAG, and logic analyzers.
• Define product architecture and validation test plans to gather requirements and usability criteria.

Skills

Hardware-software integration

Embedded software development

Linux software/firmware development

Hands-on data analysis

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Git

CMake

Python

C

C++

Linux

MongoDB

GDB

Job description

Lightmatter is hiring a Chip Firmware Validation Engineer to develop and validate the device software and firmware stack for Photonic Compute and Photonic Interconnect products. You will collaborate across software and hardware teams to drive validation, testing, data analysis, and stack optimization.

Join a tight-knit team where your contributions directly impact the next generation of photonic AI processors and interconnects, in a hybrid California workplace.