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Senior Photonics Design Automation Engineer

Lightmatter · Boston, MA; 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

  • Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Photonics, or related field
  • Prior experience in performing physical layout using foundry-provided process design kits (PDKs), adhering to specific design rules and constraints
  • Experience with photonics layout
  • Python based layout experience. Comfortable with object-oriented programming and scientific libraries (NumPy, SciPy)
  • Experience writing software and scripts in languages such as Python, SVRF, Tcl, Bash, and SKILL
  • In-depth knowledge of integrated photonic devices, analog devices, and parasitics
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!

We are hiring a Photonics PDK Design Automation Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will develop our internal Process Design Kit (PDK). You will act as the architect of our component library, bridging the gap between photonics device design and system-level verification. You will develop robust flow ensuring that our simulation environment accurately predicts the...

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