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Mechanical Design Engineer

Lightmatter · Mountain View, CA · On-site

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About Lightmatter

Rethinking the limits of AI, Lightmatter merges photonics and computing to build a future where speed, efficiency, and intelligence converge. Backed by GV.

About the role

If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders.

What they're looking for

  • BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
  • Minimum of 3 years of mechanical design experience in semiconductor packaging, optoelectronics, or photonics modules
  • Proficiency in CAD tools such as Solidworks or Creo, with a focus on mechanical design best practices
  • Expertise in Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and tolerance stack-up analysis
  • Manage prototype builds with external vendors, validating the designs, and ensuring the scalability to high volume manufacturability
  • Working knowledge of semiconductor packaging technologies, including the mechanical and thermal trade-offs of 3D, 2.5D, and FCBGA architectures
More about this role

Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company invented the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads.

Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion. We will continue to accelerate the development of data center photonics and grow every department at Lightmatter!

If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders.

Lightmatter is (re)inventing the future of computing with light!

In this role, you will be working on leading-edge packaging technologies to enable AI architectures that set new industry standards for compute power, performance, and efficiency. As a member of the Packaging team, you will collaborate with several teams to identify key failure modes under product use conditions and run appropriate parametric design studies to influence product...

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Photonics Packaging Engineering

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