Package Layout Engineer
Lightmatter is a photonic-computing company developing optical interconnects and light engines for AI-scale data centers.
Funding history
About Lightmatter
Founded in 2017 by MIT researchers, Lightmatter develops photonic infrastructure for AI, including its Passage interconnect platform and Guide light engine.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will deliver IC package substrate layouts for standard and advanced packaging technologies. You will create preliminary designs and floorplans, work with substrate suppliers and OSATs, generate fabrication files, and ensure designs meet signal integrity, power integrity, thermal, mechanical, and manufacturing requirements. You will also support tape-outs, iterative routing studies, design automation, and verification.
Requirements
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or a similar discipline
- At least 5 years of relevant experience
- 3–5 years of IC package layout design experience
- Proficiency with Allegro X APD
- Understanding of IC package substrates and organic materials
Responsibilities
- Deliver IC package substrate layouts for standard and advanced packaging technologies
- Create preliminary substrate designs and floorplans to support stack-up optimization
- Collaborate with substrate suppliers and OSAT companies on design rules and implementation guidelines
- Generate fabrication files and coordinate design-for-manufacturing and design-for-assembly closure
- Design packages that meet signal integrity, power integrity, thermal, and mechanical requirements
- Support signal and power integrity engineers with iterative test routes
- Coordinate error-free package design tape-outs on schedule
- Support design automation and verification activities
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement savings matching program
- Life insurance
- Vacation, sick time, and public holidays
- Paid family leave
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Commuter benefits
- Flexible hybrid workplace model
- Equity grants for applicable full-time employees
