Director, Photonics Hardware Validation

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!

In this pivotal role within Silicon Engineering, you will own the end-to-end post-silicon validation strategy and execution across optical, electrical, and system level. You will collaborate directly with Silicon Design, Laser, Packaging, Software, and Supply Chain leadership to architect scalable lab infrastructure, drive automated testing frameworks, and ensure our products meet world-class reliability standards for hyperscale AI data centers.

• Scale the product validation team by recruiting, mentoring, and developing multi-disciplinary talent across optical, electrical, software, and automation domains.

• Drive silicon and platform validation strategies, requirements, and execution plans for our optical interconnect platform.

• Architect and define comprehensive, at-scale validation environments, test frameworks, automated test suites, and telemetry data collection workflows.

• Analyze silicon and system architecture to identify integration risks, design gaps, and marginality issues requiring rigorous corner validation.

• Oversee the execution of validation plans, leading technical triage and root-cause debug for hardware, firmware, and system-level issues.

• Partner closely with Silicon, Packaging, Hardware, and Software teams to align validation coverage with design specifications and system requirements.

• Influence pre-silicon design and simulation milestones to ensure feature completeness, advocating for validation hooks, telemetry sensors, and diagnostic monitors on-chip and on reference platforms.

• Drive hardware and software automation initiatives to enhance testing throughput, repeatability, and data analytics capabilities across validation labs.

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