Staff Embedded Software Engineer
Lightmatter2 months ago
Boston, MA, USA or Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$175k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define control-plane architecture for photonic interconnect products in collaboration with multidisciplinary hardware and software teams.
- Define diagnostics and monitoring architecture for photonic transceivers.
- Integrate with data center administration capabilities using CMIS, OpenBMC, and DMTF environments.
- Debug and troubleshoot embedded systems using GDB, JTAG, and logic analyzers.
- Participate in customer engagements to gather requirements and usability criteria.
- Develop and extend device software and firmware for photonic compute and interconnect products.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or master’s degree and 6+ years of experience, in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field.
- Industry experience with device-driver and kernel-side development.
- Strong understanding of hardware-software integration and embedded-system communication, control, peripherals, and buses.
- Experience developing commercial or enterprise-level software and firmware on Linux.
- Experience using Git and CMake to build and manage software projects.
- Hands-on experience designing, simulating, or deploying control of autonomous systems.
- Proficiency with Python or C++.
- Familiarity with GDB, JTAG, and logic analyzers.
- Experience developing firmware for photonic transceivers or similar systems.
- Experience with CMIS, OpenBMC, DMTF, optical communication systems, or related technologies.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision healthcare plan.
- Retirement savings matching program.
- Basic, voluntary, and AD&D life insurance.
- Vacation, sick, and public holiday time off.
- Paid family leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Training and development opportunities.
- Commuter benefits.
- Flexible hybrid workplace model.
- Equity grants for eligible full-time employees.
About Lightmatter
Lightmatter builds photonic computing and interconnect hardware for AI and high‑performance computing data centers. Its products include Envise, a photonic AI accelerator, and Passage, a 3D‑stacked photonics engine that links large numbers of processors at high bandwidth and low latency. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the privately held company sells chips and systems to data center operators and AI infrastructure providers.