Principal Engineer - 2.5D/3D Process Development

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Santa Clara, CA
160K-190K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning
The Role
The Principal Engineer will drive AI product development from concept to high volume manufacturing, focusing on 2.5D and 3D packaging technologies. Responsibilities include managing assembly processes, qualification of packaging, and collaborating with foundries and OSATs, while managing risks and ensuring design for manufacturing.
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About Celestial AI

As Generative AI continues to advance, the performance drivers for data center infrastructure are shifting from systems-on-chip (SOCs) to systems of chips. In the era of Accelerated Computing, data center bottlenecks are no longer limited to compute performance, but rather the system’s interconnect bandwidth, memory bandwidth, and memory capacity. Celestial AI’s Photonic Fabric™ is the next-generation interconnect technology that delivers a tenfold increase in performance and energy efficiency compared to competing solutions.

The Photonic Fabric™ is available to our customers in multiple technology offerings, including optical interface chiplets, optical interposers, and Optical Multi-chip Interconnect Bridges (OMIB). This allows customers to easily incorporate high bandwidth, low power, and low latency optical interfaces into their AI accelerators and GPUs. The technology is fully compatible with both protocol and physical layers, including standard 2.5D packaging processes. This seamless integration enables XPUs to utilize optical interconnects for both compute-to-compute and compute-to-memory fabrics, achieving bandwidths in the tens of terabits per second with nanosecond latencies.

This innovation empowers hyperscalers to enhance the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of AI processing by optimizing the XPUs required for training and inference, while significantly reducing the TCO2 impact. To bolster customer collaborations, Celestial AI is developing a Photonic Fabric ecosystem consisting of tier-1 partnerships that include custom silicon/ASIC design, system integrators, HBM memory, assembly, and packaging suppliers.

Job Description:

In this role you will utilize your in-depth 2.5D assembly process experience and partner management experience to drive company’s AI products from concept to high volume manufacturing. You will be responsible for managing and driving the assembly process technology development in close collaboration with foundries and OSATs to ensure design for manufacturing, reliability, and cost. Responsibilities will include identification and mitigation of risk to new technologies used in product integration and ensure factory readiness through maturing product during the NPI phase. This job will require you to have hands-on experience in TSV and wafer process development, 2.5D/3D CoW assembly development along with strong project management, written and verbal communication skills as well as a can-do attitude to prioritize and address issues with a high sense of urgency.


 ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Work with cross-functional packaging teams and lead TSV, backend stack development at the foundry along with 2.5D/3D CoW process development at OSATs to bring packaging solutions from concept to prototypes and ramp to high volume manufacturing with aggressive cost reduction strategies
  • Actively manage qualification of packages with sensitivity to physics of failures for high thermo-mechanical reliability, while operating within established cost constraints
  • Manage internal and external resources effectively and efficiently towards established corporate milestones
  • Drive ideation and innovation of advanced package solutions and specifications with vendors to advance productization efforts by Celestial AI


QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 15+ years of experience in Semiconductor Packaging, Process and Technology Development
  • Expert level understanding of advanced foundry process node and its interaction with Packaging/assembly/substrate across various package technologies is required
  • Expertise in advanced packaging technologies: knowledge and insight to deliver high density/high performance interconnects with TSVs in various 2.5D/3D package form factors
  • Proven track record of bringing products from Technology development, package design/definition, qualification, NPI through HVM is required
  • Working level understanding of cross-functional packaging areas:  package architecture, design rules, BOM, enabling material/process technologies, mechanical, design for manufacturing, reliability, and cost
  • Familiarity with component & system level reliability, testing, and FA
  • Experience with photonics packaging will be preferred but is not necessary
  • Experience in project management and communicating technical and project/program status and issue resolution at the executive level
  • Excellent problem-solving skills with strong fundamentals in science, sound engineering judgment, and analytical ability
  • Effective communicator and comfortable engaging with internal cross functional teams as well as domestic and overseas suppliers
  • Excellent attention to detail, process and operationally oriented and self-driven with the ability to work independently and take projects to completion with minimum supervision
  • M.S or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science or Physics is required

 

Location: Bay area location is required.




For California location:

As an early startup experiencing explosive growth, we offer an extremely attractive total compensation package, inclusive of competitive base salary and a generous grant of our valuable early-stage equity.  The target base salary for this role is approximately $160,000.00 - $190,000.00. The base salary offered may be slightly higher or lower than the target base salary, based on the final scope as determined by the depth of the experience and skills demonstrated by candidate in the interviews.

 

We offer great benefits (health, vision, dental and life insurance), collaborative and continuous learning work environment, where you will get a chance to work with smart and dedicated people engaged in developing the next generation architecture for high performance computing.

Celestial AI Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.


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Top Skills

2.5D
3D
Tsv
The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
60 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

Celestial AI is a Machine Learning (ML) accelerator company that has developed a proprietary technology platform which enables the next generation of high-performance computing solutions. Celestial AI’s mission is to transform data parallel computing with a proprietary Photonic Fabric™ technology platform which uses light for data movement both within chip and between chips.

Advancements in data communications have driven robust silicon photonics technology and volume manufacturing ecosystems that are ripe for commercial implementation of ML and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions which leverage integrated silicon photonics for data movement.

Celestial AI’s system delivers differentiated single node performance that scales efficiently, providing significant performance gains for multi-node and multi model applications. The scalability of Celestial AI’s accelerator architecture enables an efficient and performant mapping of data and compute over a broad range of ML model types without the need for complex software optimizations. Celestial AI’s competitive advantage will further grow over time as ML models continue to increase in complexity and size.

Celestial AI has assembled a highly experienced team of industry leaders who have a track record of building multiple successful technology businesses. The company’s Orion AI accelerator products serve an addressable market that is projected by Omida to exceed $70 billion in 2025

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