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!
About the job
Lightmatter is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Embedded Software Development Manager. In this critical role, you will hire, lead, and mentor a talented group of engineers, driving the development of cutting-edge embedded software solutions. The scope extends from board-level controllers (SMC, BMC) to processors in our custom ASICs and laser solutions intended for a data center environment.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team that includes Photonic, Analog, Digital, Systems, and Network experts to define the control plane architecture for Lightmatter's photonic interconnect products.
- Developing project schedules, tasks, and project completion time estimates, then managing the team's progress against the schedule.
- Communicating effectively with project stakeholders at all levels and across disciplines to establish requirements, clear roadblocks, and to set meaningful objectives.
- Recruit, train, and mentor team members to meet personal, professional, and corporate performance objectives.
- Perform pre-silicon development in FPGA and simulation environments; Lead bringup on new hardware; mature and sustain products in the field.
Qualifications
- BS and 12+ years of experience, or MS and 8+ years of experience
- 8+ years of industry experience with embedded systems development, with at least 2 years of ARM experience.
- Prior managerial experience (team size 4+).
- Practical knowledge on communication and control in embedded systems, peripherals and buses.
- Development experience in C, C++ and python in an embedded environment.
- Ability to travel 20% of the time.
- Work a minimum of 3 days per week in either our Boston or Mountain View office.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience of working with ODMs on the full product lifecycle (design, manufacturing test, bringup, production, sustaining, sunset).
- ARM and RISC-V development experience.
- Experience developing firmware for photonic transceivers, lasers or similar systems.
- Experience using FPGAs, Palladium or similar environments for pre-silicon firmware validation against custom RTL and analog systems.
- Agile development expertise.
- Full cycle experience (pre-tapeout to production) on a custom ASIC based product.
- Expertise in PMICs, ethernet or secure firmware development for the datacenter environment.
We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data.
Salary Range
$176,000—$278,000 USD
- Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Savings Matching Program
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Paid Family Leave
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
- Commuter Benefits
- Flexible, hybrid workplace model
- Stock Option Plan
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.
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What We Do
Lightmatter is a startup photonics company that has pioneered a new paradigm in processor chip architecture that uses photons instead of electrons. Now the leader in the photonic AI compute “space race,” this new class of high performance semiconductors is the foundation of Lightmatter’s mission to enable the growth of computing, reduce harmful emissions associated with this growth, and democratize computing for all.
Lightmatter's technology accelerates critical operations in deep neural networks, using an array of programmable photonic elements fabricated alongside transistors in conventional computer chip fabrication processes. Our close-knit team of engineers has created an integrated photonics chip and ultra-high performance interconnect that is faster, more efficient, and cooler than anything else on earth (or anything ever experienced before) to power the next giant leaps in human progress.
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