Senior Electro-Optic Systems Architect for Photonics AI

Lightmatter, Inc.

Massachusetts

Hybrid

USD 212,000 - 321,000

Full time

11 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Retirement Savings Matching Program
Life Insurance
Generous Time Off
Paid Family Leave
Disability Insurance
Training & Development
Hybrid workplace model
Equity grants

Job summary

Lightmatter, Inc. in Massachusetts seeks an Electro-Optic Systems Architect to partner with the engineering team and deliver groundbreaking products.

You will ensure that Passage’s digital-to-optical links meet customer requirements and collaborate with RTL/DV teams to validate implementations. Join a tight-knit team of scientists and engineers to build a new kind of computer from the ground up, test prototypes, and contribute to customer-facing datasheets and reference designs in a hybrid work

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience with a Masters in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
  • Expertise in high-speed AMS digital design for photonic channels.
  • Experience with digital circuit design and analog/digital integration (DSP/CRC/FEC).
  • Strong problem solving and customer communication abilities.
  • Ability to collaborate across hardware and software teams.

Responsibilities

  • Be the digital architecture owner of Lightmatter’s Passage product, collaborating with architecture, chip-design, and software teams.
  • Oversee digital architecture from concept through high-volume production with PMs guidance.
  • Architect and specify system-level digital designs integrating AMS and photonic circuits.
  • Work with test/validation engineers to correlate hardware with simulation.
  • Collaborate with RTL and DV teams to enable block-level implementation and verification.
  • Support firmware in developing bring-up and validation recipes.
  • Produce and review architectural specs and customer-facing datasheets.
  • Identify improvements and mitigation strategies for proposed architectures.

Skills

Power-efficient digital design
Digital circuit design
Problem solving
Customer communication
Team collaboration

Education

Masters in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

SerDes PCS

Job description

Lightmatter, Inc. in Massachusetts seeks an Electro-Optic Systems Architect to partner with the engineering team and deliver groundbreaking products.

You will ensure that Passage’s digital-to-optical links meet customer requirements and collaborate with RTL/DV teams to validate implementations. Join a tight-knit team of scientists and engineers to build a new kind of computer from the ground up, test prototypes, and contribute to customer-facing datasheets and reference designs in a hybrid work

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