Sr Staff Quality and Reliability Hardware Engineer (Boston)

Lightmatter builds chips for artificial intelligence computing. Our architecture leverages the unique properties of light to enable fast and efficient inference and training engines. If you're a collaborative engineer or scientist with 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

The person in this role will be responsible for quality and reliability of next-generation Lightmatter products. The individual will be creating product-specific quality and reliability plans for analog, digital and photonics products from pre to post silicon development to high volume manufacturing. It also involves engaging with design and platform engineering teams in addition to the supply chain organization to influence the definition of the product and to leverage the capabilities of the ecosystem from a quality and reliability perspective.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall quality and reliability strategies and plans for our highly integrated photonics-based AI platform and our photonics chiplet communication fabric
• Define quality criteria of product life cycle from pre-silicon, post silicon, qualification and high-volume manufacturing.
• Partner closely with silicon engineering, test engineering, packaging and system engineering groups to understand reliability failures/issues and develop mitigation plans.
• Experience in reliability models and failure mechanisms such as the Arrhenius model are a plus.
• Work closely with internal and external laboratories for quality and reliability tests to support product development, qualification, and EFA/PFA.

Requirements

• BS or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Engineering/Science, Mechanical Engineering or other related fields
• At least 8 years of industry experience and at least 5 years of quality and reliability on silicon and packaging areas
• Good understanding and experience in defining device reliability spec including HTOL, ES/LU and package qualification like BHAST, HTHH, TC etc.
• Ability to define reliability requirements given the product specs and final use condition
• Good understanding of device physics and failure mechanism in Serdes/digital/mixed signal IC’s
• Experience in failure analysis techniques such as FIB/SEM, TEM, LVI etc
• Good statistical data analysis skills to analyze pre vs post reliability data.

Preferred Requirements

• Good understanding of packaging failure mechanisms and risks on TSV, solder joints, warpage, metal migrations etc
• Experience in defining / driving roadmap for Photonics reliability

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: $170,000 - $200,000. 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.