Chip Firmware Validation Engineer
Lightmatter2 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$185k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with photonics, analog, digital, systems, and network experts to define control architecture for photonic interconnect products.
- Drive software and firmware validation testing for photonic products.
- Debug and troubleshoot embedded systems using GDB, JTAG, and logic analyzers.
- Help define product architecture, validation test plans, requirements, and usability criteria.
- Gather, analyze, and report validation data while supporting software stack optimization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in ASIC firmware validation.
- Strong understanding of hardware-software integration and practical knowledge of embedded-system communication, control, peripherals, and buses.
- Experience developing embedded software and commercial or enterprise-level software and firmware on Linux.
- Experience with Git and CMake for building and managing software projects.
- Proficiency with Python, C, C++, and MongoDB.
- Preferred experience with Snowflake, CMIS, OpenBMC, validation and reliability/FIT testing, optical test and measurement, and photonic transceiver firmware.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement savings matching program.
- Basic, voluntary, and AD&D life insurance.
- Vacation, sick leave, and public holidays.
- Paid family leave and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Training and development programs and 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.