Silicon Packaging Engineer Intern and New Graduate

Lightmatter is a photonic-computing company developing optical interconnects and light engines for AI-scale data centers.

Mountain View, United States
About Lightmatter

Founded in 2017 by MIT researchers, Lightmatter develops photonic infrastructure for AI, including its Passage interconnect platform and Guide light engine.

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About the Role

You will work on real silicon packaging challenges for photonic products. Depending on your background, you will contribute to high-speed interfaces, thermal analysis, mechanical and thermo-mechanical design, or packaging integration and reliability.

Requirements

  • Pursue or recently complete a BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field
  • Have hands-on experience through coursework, capstone projects, research labs, or internships
  • Be familiar with at least one relevant tool such as SolidWorks, ANSYS, ADS, Cadence, Python, or MATLAB
  • Have the capacity to comply with federally mandated U.S. export control requirements

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to signal and power integrity analysis, PDN design, and simulation
  • Perform thermal engineering analysis, including CFD simulation and cooling evaluation
  • Support mechanical and thermo-mechanical design, structural analysis, and tolerance stack-up
  • Contribute to 2.5D and 3D packaging, fiber attach, heterogeneous integration, yield, and reliability

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health care plan including medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Retirement savings matching program
  • Life insurance including basic, voluntary, and AD&D coverage
  • Generous time off including 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 eligible full-time employees