Staff Electrical Design Engineer, 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
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• 8+ years of related experience in system-level electrical design, having successfully taken several products from concept to production
• Proficient in schematic design using Cadence, Mentor, or Altium tool set (Altium preferred)
• In depth knowledge on VRMs, high speed SERDES, CPUs and various interfaces/protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet, QSPI, I3C, I2C, etc
• 5+ years of experience in lab experimentation, non-intrusive circuit debugging, and leading cross-functional integration teams
• Experience in working with thermal solutions for integrated circuits and their board level systems
• Familiar with Product Lifecycle Management tools, e.g. Oracle Agile, Arena, or Omnify PLM with an understanding of BOM and ECO management
• Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws

Desirable

• We are looking for a Staff Electrical Design Engineer to contribute to the development of the next generation of silicon photonics based artificial intelligence accelerators and interconnect products
• In this role, you will lead board and system solutions that leverage Lightmatter’s technology to enable advanced machine learning, artificial intelligence, and large-scale interconnect platforms
• You will lead and own Hardware systems efforts, collaborate closely with teams across hardware and software, including mechanical, packaging, and IC engineering, to design, integrate, troubleshoot and release system-level products at the leading edge of innovation
• Collaborate with the system architect and technical leads to define system-level hardware requirements and spec
• Electrical design of power, memory, and interconnect circuits, working in both the analog and digital domains
• Identify electrical and optical components to fit the application based on specifications provided by the IC and photonics engineering teams
• Starting from fundamental concepts and system considerations you will develop conceptual designs, physical modeling, and simulations of chip-modules and systems
• Oversee and review PCB layout designs, providing complete and detailed electrical constraint rules
• Ensure the board and system is manufacturable to the latest technologies with high yield and robustness
• Qualification of chip and system electrical properties
• Perform laboratory validation of boards and systems
• Lead integration with mechanical, software, IC, and other related teams
• Support contract manufacturing during prototype and production phase to resolve any issues
• Work with component vendors and other supply partners
• Research new components, processes, and technologies to meet product goals
• This role is open to two levels Staff and Sr Staff. Leveling placement and salary range is dependent on education, years of experience, and interview performance