Physical Design, Intern (Boston)

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!

We are hiring an Intern for our Physical Design 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.

• Deliver block level physical designs for active project
• Produce physical design flow enhancements
• Explore new physical design capabilities
• Run experiments on block level designs and gather performance data
• Learn the Physical Design Flow at Lightmatter
• Participate in Physical Design activities directly related to our next generation products
• In conjunction with the Physical Design team - choose an aspect of the PD flow to improve or explore. This could be a new flow capability or feature, or a new method of processing or visualizing existing data

• ​Currently enrolled in a graduate engineering program, preferably in an ECE, EE or Computer Engineering degree
• Interest in Physical Design
• Experience with Python or TCL
• Understanding of Verilog RTL
• Exposure to VSLI Design and/or Architecture
• Understanding of Semiconductor Device Theory
• Willingness to learn from an exciting team!

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cadence Innovus, Genus, Tempus, Voltus, Virtuoso