Staff Embedded Software Engineer for Photonic Compute

Lightmatter; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement Savings Matching Program

Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&

Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick &amp

Paid Family Leave

Short Term & Long Term Disability

Training & Development

Flexible, hybrid workplace model

Equity grants (applicable to full-time

Job summary

Lightmatter is hiring a talented software engineer to build the next generation of photonic AI processors and interconnects. You will develop and extend the device software/firmware stack for Photonic Compute and Photonic interconnect products, collaborating with software and hardware teams to implement security, telemetry, virtualization, and remote administration.

You will define the control plane, diagnostics, and integration points across CMIS, OpenBMC, and DMTF, while debugging embedded

Qualifications

• BS and 8+ years of experience in software/firmware development.
• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
• Industry experience with device driver and kernel side development.
• Strong understanding of hardware-software integration.
• Practical knowledge of communication and control in embedded systems, peripherals, and buses.
• Experience with developing software and firmware on Linux.
• Experience with Git and CMake for building projects.
• Hands-on experience designing, simulating, or deploying control of autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across a multidisciplinary team to define control plane architecture for photonic interconnect products.
• Define diagnostics and monitoring architecture for photonic transceivers.
• Integrate with DataCenter administration capabilities using CMIS, OpenBMC and DMTF.
• Debug and troubleshoot embedded systems using GDB, JTAG, and logic analyzers.
• Participate in customer engagements to gather requirements and usability criteria.

Skills

Device driver

Kernel development

Linux development

Git

CMake

Embedded systems

Hardware-software co-design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Robotics

Master's degree in CS/EE/Robotics

Tools

GDB

CMIS

OpenBMC

DMTF

Job description

Lightmatter is hiring a talented software engineer to build the next generation of photonic AI processors and interconnects. You will develop and extend the device software/firmware stack for Photonic Compute and Photonic interconnect products, collaborating with software and hardware teams to implement security, telemetry, virtualization, and remote administration.

You will define the control plane, diagnostics, and integration points across CMIS, OpenBMC, and DMTF, while debugging embedded