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Sr Staff Design Verification

Lightmatter

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Dec 9, 2025

Salary
$224k – $257k
Location
Mountain View, CA
Workplace
Onsite
Type
Internship
Department
Hardware Engineering
Seniority
Senior
Experience
2+ years
Source
Greenhouse

Description

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!

As a Design Verification Engineer at Lightmatter, you will find yourself at the heart of a dynamic, interdisciplinary team. Your role will involve close collaboration with our digital design experts, using UVM testbench techniques to rigorously verify their designs. Your responsibilities will include working alongside photonic and analog designers, gaining a deep understanding of their innovative designs, and applying Real Number Modeling (RNM) and AMS verification methods. This critical function ensures the integrity of their work. We are hiring at multiple levels. 

Your interaction with the Architecture team will be crucial in comprehending system requirements and spearheading performance verification. This role offers a unique platform to enhance your skills across a spectrum of areas including UVM, AMS modeling, mixed-signal verification, post-silicon validation formal verification, emulation, and both performance modeling and verification.

Responsibilities

  • Define and enhance the DV methodologies required for integrated digital, analog, and photonic devices with a strong emphasis on emulation for design verification.
  • Create and execute test plans to ensure high-quality tapeouts that meet functional and performance goals, while leveraging emulation where appropriate.
  • Collaborate with architects, DV engineers, digital designers, and analog/photonics designers to define validation flows.
  • Create reusable and scalable test bench components that enable efficient and effective verification.
  • Close coverage and finish all DV signoff requirements, with a focus on leveraging mixed signal simulations to achieve high coverage metrics
  • Work on block level and full chip design verification.
  • Integrate analog design IPs from vendors and internal teams and develop verification environments for simulation and emulation.
  • Work with analog design engineers to create behavioral models for analog designs and with digital design engineers to integrate models/testcase/checkers into upper levels

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Minimum of 8 years of design verification and SystemVerilog experience
  • 2+ years of experience in Python
  • Expertise in developing with the UVM library
  • Experience with simulators such as Xcelium, ModelSim, Questa, or VCS
  • Strong problem solver and collaborator

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Master’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience with 6 years of relevant experience 
  • Experience with post-silicon validation and debug
  • Experience with AMS verification

We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data.

Salary Range: total compensation goes beyond base salary, it also includes a new hire equity grant, annual performance-based equity, and other rewards that recognize your impact and contribution.
$224,000$257,000 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. 

Skills

Python

Benefits

Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)Retirement Savings Matching ProgramLife Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)Paid Family LeaveShort Term & Long Term DisabilityTraining & DevelopmentCommuter BenefitsFlexible, hybrid workplace modelEquity grants (applicable to full-time employees)

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