Senior Foundry Process Engineer — Photonics AI Chips

Lightmatter; Mountain View (WY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Retirement matching

Life insurance

Paid time off

Family leave

Disability insurance

Training & development

Commuter benefits

Hybrid workplace

Equity grants

Job summary

Lightmatter is hiring a senior technology development and manufacturing engineer to lead foundry process technology development for our photonics AI platform. You will work across silicon fabrication, packaging, and DFM to ensure successful production from first silicon to high-volume manufacturing.

The role involves coordinating with Foundry suppliers, developing qualification plans, and shaping roadmaps to support Lightmatter product requirements and a reliable product lifetime in customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Engineering/Science, Mechanical Engineering or other related fields.
• At least 8 years of industry experience with at least 5 years of silicon process experience.
• Experience bringing products from first silicon to production.
• Strong knowledge of working and collaborating with a foundry.
• Experience with Silicon foundry processes, technologies, control plan and failures related to Silicon.
• Exposure to packaging technology with understanding of assembly processes, packaging materials, quality and reliability standards, and packaging failure mechanism etc is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead foundry process technology development, manufacturing strategies and specifications efforts for our highly integrated photonics-based AI platform and our photonics chiplet communication fabric.
• Establish silicon fabrication process coverage metrics and establish yield expectations and monitoring mechanisms.
• Provide manufacturing process solutions for integrated digital/analog/photonic/laser devices.
• Work closely with Foundry suppliers to ensure manufacturing output specifications are being met.
• Collaborate with the Design-For-Manufacturing (DFM) team early in the design process.
• Develop silicon technology and capability roadmap to support Lightmatter product requirement.
• Develop initial product fabrication qualification and execution plan.
• Establish metrics and methodology to characterize and ensure reliable product operation at customer sites over the expected product lifetime.
• Collaborate with design and /layout team to coordinate product tapeout to foundry.

Skills

Foundry collaboration

Silicon process knowledge

Product from silicon to production

Packaging knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor’s in Physics

Bachelor’s in Materials Engineering/Science

Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Lightmatter is hiring a senior technology development and manufacturing engineer to lead foundry process technology development for our photonics AI platform. You will work across silicon fabrication, packaging, and DFM to ensure successful production from first silicon to high-volume manufacturing.

The role involves coordinating with Foundry suppliers, developing qualification plans, and shaping roadmaps to support Lightmatter product requirements and a reliable product lifetime in customer