Lightmatter
Sr. Staff Product Manager (Photonics)
$214K–$286K
Boston, MA +3 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Mountain View, CA
Boston, MA
Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 10+ years of related experience, including 6+ years in product management, marketing, applications engineering, and business development roles.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.
About the job
Leads product definition, commercialization, rollout, and lifecycle management for Lightmatter’s silicon photonics products, driving design wins with semiconductor and cloud vendors.
What you'll do
- Define product requirements, SKU strategy, and commercial positioning for the Passage interconnect platform, evaluation systems, and demonstration vehicles.
- Manage strategic optical-hardware partnerships and customer product rollouts from early development through volume production.
- Partner with sales and technical teams on customer proposals, collateral, pricing, margin models, and revenue forecasts.
What they ask for
- Detailed market and technical knowledge of silicon photonics and related optical technologies.
- 10+ years of related experience, including 6+ years in product management, marketing, applications engineering, and business development roles driving complex semiconductor products to volume production.
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering field.
- Experience taking products from business definition through design-in, volume production, and end-of-life; knowledge of datacenter optical components and semiconductor design and manufacturing.
Nice to have
- PhD focused on Optics, Photonics, or related advanced photonic technology.
- Established professional network across datacenter, semiconductor, and optical industries.
Pay
$214,000 — $286,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
silicon photonics, Passage, lasers, fibers, connectors
AI focus
The role supports adoption of photonics-enabled products for advanced AI and HPC workloads; no specific AI development work is stated.
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