Principal Solutions Architect - Silicon Photonics

Overview

Principal Solutions Architect - Silicon Photonics

Mountain View, CA

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 now looking for an outstanding Principal Solutions Architect to join our team. The role’s primary responsibility is to collaborate with customers in architecting the next generation of supercomputers and machine learning systems enabled by Lightmatter’s photonic interconnect technology Passage. In this role, you will work closely with Tier 1 Semiconductor companies and Cloud Service Provider organizations that are defining the next generation of scale-out, HPC, and machine learning systems. You will work cross-functionally within Lightmatter as you define an optimal technical solution. Additionally, you will be collaborating with customers who are experts in silicon photonics, and integrated optics. You should be comfortable supporting deep technical discussions on silicon photonics design, optical transceivers, cable / fiber management, and lasers. We are looking for a professional with excellent interpersonal skills and an outstanding communicator who can effectively interface with management and engineering teams. Our new team member must be able to work independently, which is essential to success in the role.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Lightmatter sales leaders to develop strong relationships with key technical stakeholders, and help them optimize their system architecture by taking advantage of Lightmatter’s interconnect technology
• Act as the primary technical interface and domain expert with customers in Lightmatter’s Silicon Photonics and Laser Technology
• Develop and deliver technical proposals to customers, based on customer’s technical requirements and system architecture
• Work as the field expert in silicon photonics, to provide in-depth training and guidance of the photonic architecture / design to the FAE team, to create and share the related technical articles and reference designs
• Define new and refine existing ideas and design concepts that address scaling HPC and ML system architectures using Lightmatter’s highly disruptive interconnect technology Passage
• Explain advanced silicon photonics and laser technology concepts and understand how those concepts relate to other disciplines

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Benefits

Benefits eligibility may vary depending on your employment status. 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.

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