Lightmatter
Staff Electrical Design Engineer
$186K–$250K
Mountain View, CA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of related system-level electrical design experience; 5+ years in lab experimentation, non-intrusive circuit debugging, and leading cross-functional integration teams.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.
About the job
Leads electrical design and integration of board- and system-level hardware for silicon photonics AI accelerators and interconnect products, from concept through production.
What you'll do
- Define system-level hardware requirements and design power, memory, and interconnect circuits across analog and digital domains.
- Develop and validate chip-module and system designs; oversee PCB layout, manufacturability, and laboratory qualification.
- Lead cross-functional integration and support contract manufacturers, component vendors, and supply partners.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
- 8+ years of related system-level electrical design experience, with several products taken from concept to production.
- Proficient in schematic design using Cadence, Mentor, or Altium tool set (Altium preferred); in-depth knowledge of VRMs, high speed SERDES, CPUs, and interfaces/protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet, QSPI, I3C, and I2C.
- 5+ years of lab experimentation, non-intrusive circuit debugging, and leading cross-functional integration teams; experience with thermal solutions for integrated circuits and board-level systems.
Nice to have
- Experience designing electrical systems for networking or similar industries; knowledge of integrated circuit layout and carrier PCBA design.
- Knowledge of common manufacturing and design processes, Systems Engineering principles, or 3D Mechanical CAD tools such as Solidworks or AutoCAD.
Pay
$186,000 — $250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Cadence, Mentor, Altium, VRMs, SERDES, PCIe, Ethernet, Oracle Agile
AI focus
Develops electrical hardware systems for silicon photonics-based AI accelerators and interconnect products supporting AI and machine-learning workloads.
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