Principal System Architect (Boston or Mountain View)

Principal System Architect

Lightmatter builds chips for artificial intelligence computing. Our architecture leverages unique properties of light to enable fast and efficient inference and training engines. If you're a collaborative engineer or scientist who has a passion for innovation, solving challenging technical problems and doing impactful work like building the world's first optical computers, consider joining the team at Lightmatter!

We are looking for a Principal System Architect to help us build the next generation of silicon photonics based artificial intelligence accelerators and interconnect products.

As a Principal System Architect, you will be responsible for defining system solutions for the data center using Lightmatter’s innovative technology to create state of the art machine learning/artificial intelligence or massive scale-out interconnect platforms. You will work closely with our hardware and software teams, including mechanical, packaging, IC engineering, test and validation to design and build leading edge system level products.

Responsibilities 

• Designs and develops electrical architecture for data center equipment and their hardware systems. Determines and communicates design approaches and parameters
• Drives system architecture definition for assigned program, and ensures consistency/compatibility with other products
• Provide technical leadership of the System Design projects, attending meetings, providing cross-functional information, and driving solutions
• Performs feature and cost trade-off analysis
• Partitions design tasks and leads electrical team in implementation and validation on program
• Drives appropriate simulation and ECAD.
• Works with engineering manager and design engineers to assist in the creation of the development plan for programs, including schedule, risks and resources
• Cultivate a strategic partnership with Lightmatter's Digital, Analog, Photonics, and SW architecture teams
• Analyzes test plan requirements to perform verification and validation
• Oversees experimental tests and evaluates results. Selects components based on analysis of specifications, cost, continuity of supply, and reliability
• Reviews original design manufacturer and sub-tier vendor capability to support product development and production.
• Ensures that designs integrate with rest of product functions including mechanical and software
• Creates and maintains required documentation including specifications.
• Ensures the manufacturability, reliability, and serviceability of designs

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 15+ years of related experience, or
  Master’s Degree  in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 12+ years of related experience
• Experience in product early concept, development through production launch
• Experience with different types of thermal management, including rack-level cooling, passive heat sinks, and cold plates
• A solid understanding of security elements (TPM's) within a computer system, analog and digital design, high-speed bus interface design,CPLD / FPGA design, High-speed PCB layout design
• Strong infrastructure experience, preferably data center

Preferred Qualification:

• Board and system-level software and firmware experience
• Data pipeline and ML/AI workload experience
• Experience with immersion cooling systems
• PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• Previous technical leadership experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• 401k matching
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Paid Family Leave
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Flexible, hybrid workplace model
• Stock Option Plan

We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role, inclusive of all US locations, is $220,000-$300,000. Your base salary will be determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data.

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.