Foundry Engineer

Lightmatter•Mountain View, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company invented the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads. Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion. We will continue to accelerate the development of data center photonics and grow every department at Lightmatter! If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders. Lightmatter is (re)inventing the future of computing with light! The person in this role will be a technology development and manufacturing team member working on planning, developing foundry process technology, manufacturing and characterization for next-generation Lightmatter products. The team will be creating product-specific silicon manufacturing process flow plan, working with supplier and internal core competency team such as package design team, silicon design teams on qualifying technology nodes, characterizing manufacturing processes and monitoring plan for Lightmatter products from product definition through qualification and high-volume manufacturing. It also involves engaging with design and platform engineering teams in addition to the supply chain organization to influence the definition of the product and to leverage the capabilities of the ecosystem from a manufacturing process perspective.

Requirements

Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Engineering/Science, Mechanical Engineering or other related fields
At least 8 years of industry experience with at least 5 years of silicon process experience
Experience bringing products from first silicon to production
Strong knowledge of working and collaborating with a foundry
Experience with Silicon foundry processes, technologies, control plan and failures related to Silicon.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to packaging technology with understanding of assembly processes, packaging materials, quality and reliability standards, and packaging failure mechanism etc is preferred
Experience in foundry manufacturing process or process development/integration engineer in any fab foundries
Experience in photonics laser foundry and package integration
Master’s or Phd in chemistry, materials sciences or physics.

Responsibilities

Lead foundry process technology development, manufacturing strategies and specifications efforts for our highly integrated photonics-based AI platform and our photonics chiplet communication fabric
Establish silicon fabrication process coverage metrics and establish yield expectations and monitoring mechanisms
Provide manufacturing process solutions for integrated digital/analog/photonic/laser devices
Work closely with Foundry suppliers to ensure manufacturing output specifications are being met
Collaborate with the Design-For-Manufacturing (DFM) team early in the design process
Develop silicon technology and capability roadmap to support Lightmatter product requirement.
Develop initial product fabrication qualification and execution plan
Establish metrics and methodology to characterize and ensure reliable product operation at customer sites over the expected product lifetime
Collaborate with design and /layout team to coordinate product tapeout to foundry.