Board Design Electrical Engineer (Boston)

About Lightmatter

Lightmatter builds chips for artificial intelligence computing. Our architecture leverages unique properties of light to enable fast and efficient inference and training engines. If you're a collaborative engineer or scientist who has a passion for innovation, solving challenging technical problems and doing impactful work like building the world's first optical computers, consider joining the team at Lightmatter!

About the Position

We are looking for a talented system design engineer to help us build the next generation of silicon photonics based artificial intelligence accelerators and interconnect products.

As a System Design Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering board and system solutions using Lightmatter’s innovative technology to create state of the art machine learning/artificial intelligence or massive scale-out interconnect platforms. You will work closely with our hardware and software teams, including mechanical, packaging, and IC engineering, to design and build leading edge system level products.

Requirements

Responsibilities

• Electrical design of power, memory, and interconnect circuits, working in both the analog and digital domains
• Identify electrical and optical components to fit the application based on specifications provided by the IC and photonics engineering teams
• Starting from fundamental concepts and system considerations, develop conceptual design, physical modeling, and simulation of chip-modules and systems
• Oversee and review PCB Layout designs, providing complete and detailed electrical constraint rules
• Ensure the board and system is manufacturable to the latest technologies with high yield and robustness
• Qualification of chip and system electrical properties
• Perform electrical, thermal, and mechanical evaluation of packaging solutions
• CAD modeling, design, and vendor sourcing for board and system components
• Build prototype assemblies and perform laboratory validation of boards and systems
• Support contract manufacturing during prototype and production phase to resolve any issues
• Manage and work with component vendors and other supply partners
• Research new components, processes, and technologies to meet product goals

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and 5+ years of related experience, or
  Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and 3+ years of related experience, or
  PhD in Electrical Engineering
• Proficient in schematic design using Cadence, Mentor, or Altium tool set (Altium preferred)
• Familiar with Product Lifecycle Management tools, e.g. Oracle Agile, Arena, or Omnify PLM with an understanding of BOM and ECO management
• Familiar with 3D Mechanical CAD tools, e.g. Solidworks or AutoCAD
• 3+ years of experience performing lab experiments and debugging; Essential skills include the ability to non-intrusively instrument circuit components for analysis and troubleshooting
• Experience in working with thermal solutions for integrated circuits and their board level systems
• Knowledge of common manufacturing and design processes
• Knowledge of integrated circuit layout and basic architecture

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• 401k matching
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Paid Family Leave
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Flexible, hybrid workplace model
• Commuter/Transit Benefits
• Stock Option Plan

Base Compensation Range: $115,000 - $170,000. In accordance with the Colorado, California and New York law, the range provided is Lightmatter's reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. Actual pay will be based on several factors including work experience, location and education.

Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.