Photonics Circuit Simulation, Intern

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!

About this Role

We are hiring an Intern for our Laser System Architecture and Engineering (LSA&E) team at Lightmatter! We are a photonic computer company redefining what computers and human beings are capable of by building the engines that will power discoveries and drive progress in a sustainable way. With modern human progress relying heavily on computers, the world has hit a dead end with traditional transistors, and the prospect of constantly building data centers is an environmental nightmare. Lightmatter has created a solution in photonic computing: using photons instead of electrons to take advantage of their higher bandwidth. We build chips for artificial intelligence computing. Our architecture leverages the unique properties of light to enable fast and efficient inference and training engines.

Responsibilities

• Design high-fidelity behavioral models for passive, active silicon photonics devices covering the fabrication variability and dispersion of the components

• Develop and implement analog and photonics circuits in python to model the behaviour of Lightmatter Guide Laser products.

• Develop a simulation framework with control algorithms to interface with analog and photonics models to assess the performance of the laser modules under various operation states.

• Interface the python workflow with the AMS and digital verification teams as a representative of laser subsystem for optical link simulations

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program, specializing in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Photonics, or related fields.

• Good understanding of Silicon Photonics and Analog Electronics, by developing behavioural mode photonics and analog components using Python

• Demonstrate problem-solving skills in problems that do not have obvious solutions

• Data-driven and analytical; translates numbers into actionable strategies

• Process-oriented and programmatic: builds structure through processes

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in design of integrated photonics and analog electronics with emphasis in compact modelling and circuit simulations

• Work with foundries

Our internship hourly rates are a standard pay determined based on the position and your location, year in school, degree, and experience.

Hourly Rate in USD
$50—$65 USD

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

• Retirement Savings Matching Program

• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)

• Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)

• Paid Family Leave

• Short Term & Long Term Disability

• Training & Development

• Commuter Benefits

• Flexible, hybrid workplace model

• Equity grants (applicable to full-time employees)

Benefits eligibility may vary depending on your employment status and location. Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

Export Control

Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.