Drimva

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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First seen Oct 17, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)