Sr. Staff Product Quality & Reliability Engineer (Hardware)

Sr. Staff Product Quality & Reliability Engineer

Lightmatter builds chips that enable extreme-scale artificial intelligence computing clusters. 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!

The person in this role will be responsible for quality and reliability of next-generation Lightmatter products. The individual will be creating product-specific quality and reliability plans for analog, digital and photonics products from pre to post Silicon development to high volume manufacturing. It also involves engaging with design and platform engineering teams in addition to the supply chain organization to influence the definition of the product and to leverage the capabilities of the ecosystem from a quality and reliability perspective.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall quality and reliability strategies and plans for our highly integrated photonics-based AI platform and our photonics chiplet communication fabric.
• Define quality criteria of product life cycle from pre-silicon, post silicon, qualification and high volume manufacturing. 
• Partner closely with silicon engineering, test engineering, packaging and system engineering groups to understand reliability failures/issues and develop mitigation plans. 
• Experience in reliability models and failure mechanisms such as the Arrhenius model are a plus. 
• Work closely with internal and external laboratories for quality and reliability tests to support product development, qualification, EFA/PFA. 

Requirements

• BS or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Materials Engineering/Science, or other related fields.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in semiconductor industry.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in quality and reliability in silicon, packaging, photonics and lasers areas.
• Experience in defining device reliability spec including HTOL, ESD/LU and package qualification like BHAST, HTHH, TC etc.
• Experience in failure analysis techniques such as FIB/SEM, TEM, LVI etc.
• Experience in defining reliability requirements given the product specs and final use condition.
• Experience in device physics, reliability and failure mechanism in Serdes/digital/mixed signal IC’s.
• Good understanding of packaging failure mechanisms and risks on TSV, solder joints, warpage, metal migrations etc.

Preferred Qualification

• Preferably experienced in defining / driving roadmap for Photonics and lasers reliability. 
• Good statistical data analysis skills to analyze pre vs post reliability data.

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
• Commuter/Transit Benefits
• Stock Option Plan

We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role, including all US locations, is $174,000 to $240,000. 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.