Staff Embedded Software Engineer

Lightmatter · Boston, MA; Mountain View

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Company
Lightmatter
Location
Boston, MA; Mountain View
Salary
$175,000 — $220,000
Posted
July 15, 2026

About this job

We are hiring a talented software engineer to help us build the next generation of photonic AI processors and interconnects. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and extending the device software and firmware stack for Photonic Compute and Photonic interconnect products. You will collaborate with other software teams and hardware systems teams to develop security, telemetry, virtualization, and remote administration functionality. Responsibilities Collaborate across a multidisciplinary team including Photonic, Analog, Digital, Systems and Network experts to define control plane architecture for Lightmatter's photonic interconnect products. Define diagnostics and monitoring architecture for photonic transceivers.…

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