Senior Electro-Optic Link & Verification Engineer (Hybrid)

Lightmatter; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health Care Plan

Retirement Savings Matching Program

Equity grants for full-time employees

Flexible, hybrid workplace model

Generous Time Off

Job summary

Lightmatter is seeking a hands-on Photonics engineer to lead verification and characterization of high-speed electro-optic links across silicon and system programs. You will own modeling methodology, measurement standards, and be the escalation point for tough signal integrity problems.

You will mentor Senior/Staff engineers, build automation tools, and contribute to silicon/package/system architecture decisions while staying involved in lab work.

Qualifications

• Must have strong background in verification strategy for silicon/system programs.
• Experience with high-speed serial links and signal integrity.
• Hands-on lab leadership for investigations and measurements.
• Proficient in Python/MATLAB for automation.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on lab characterization and debug of high-speed hardware.
• Build and validate system-level channel models against bench data.
• Own link budget and verification methodology; stay hands-on with measurements.
• Characterize eye diagrams, BER, jitter, equalization, and channel impairments.
• Support silicon bring-up and debug with analog, package, PCB, and SerDes teams.

Skills

Ownership of verification strategy

Lab investigations lead

Python/MATLAB automation

Mentoring engineers

System-level link modeling

Bench measurements expertise

Education

Master's or PhD in EE/Photonics/Physics

Tools

ADS

HFSS

Cadence

COMSOL

MATLAB

Job description

Lightmatter is seeking a hands-on Photonics engineer to lead verification and characterization of high-speed electro-optic links across silicon and system programs. You will own modeling methodology, measurement standards, and be the escalation point for tough signal integrity problems.

You will mentor Senior/Staff engineers, build automation tools, and contribute to silicon/package/system architecture decisions while staying involved in lab work.