Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion.
Source posting
Hardware & Robotics
Lightmatter is hiring. 44 roles are open right now.
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HQMountain View, CA
Posted (90d)24
[01] HIRING NOW
See Lightmatter's current openings.
We update these listings as we find new roles and learn that others have closed.
Open roles
44
Posted (90d)
24
Posted range
—
Roles with the most current openings
Semiconductor / Chip Design
20 roles
Electrical / Hardware Engineer
15 roles
Software Engineer
4 roles
QA Engineer
3 roles
Technical Product Manager
2 roles
[02] OPEN ROLES
Apply to Lightmatter now.
Live roles pulled from Lightmatter's career page. Open one to see the full description, location, and pay, then let Scoutify apply for you, or apply on Lightmatter's site yourself.
Location
Type
The 20 most recent roles out of 44 open roles
Boston, Massachusetts, United States · internship · $110k - 135k
Boston, Massachusetts, United States · full-time · $119k - 123k
Canada, Ontario, Toronto · full-time
California, Mountain View, United States · full-time · $149k - 220k
California, Mountain View, United States · full-time · $149k - 220k
California, Mountain View, United States · full-time · $186k - 256k
Canada, Ontario, Toronto · full-time · $107k - 122k
Boston, California, Massachusetts, Mountain View, United States · full-time · $150k - 207k
California, Mountain View, United States · full-time · $186k - 250k
Boston, California, Canada, Massachusetts, Mountain View, Ontario, Toronto, United States · full-time · $185k - 220k
[03] COMPENSATION
What Lightmatter pays.
Compensation depends on the role and location. Check the individual postings below for employer-provided salary information.
By level · reported by current and former Lightmatter employees on Levels.fyi
Software Engineer
Source: Levels.fyi| Level | Total | Base | Equity | Bonus | N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Staff Software Engineer | $315K | $210K | $105K | $0K | 2 |
Source: Levels.fyi · median across reported samples
[04] IN THEIR OWN WORDS
How Lightmatter pitches itself.
“We build ambitious healthcare technology products.”
Source: lightmatter.com
[05] VISA SPONSORSHIP
Hiring international candidates.
Lightmatter has a documented USCIS H-1B petition history.
Sponsors H1B · USCIS-confirmed petitioner
Source: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. Classifications: yes (5+ approvals), conditional (1-4), no (0).
[06] WHERE THEY'RE HIRING
Where Lightmatter is hiring.
These are the cities named in current job listings. A role can appear in more than one city.
Top cities by open roles
Mountain View, California
29 roles
Boston, Massachusetts
17 roles
Toronto, Ontario, CA
12 roles
[07] KEY FACTS
Founded
2017
Data: Wikidata (CC0) · Q107518457
[08] IN THE NEWS
Lightmatter in the headlines.
Recent press coverage, pulled from Google News. Worth a scan before an interview or a cold email: funding rounds, launches, and leadership changes are the fastest way to sound current.
GetLatka4 months agoTracxn4 months agoCounterpoint Research4 months agosemivision5 months agoData Center Dynamics5 months ago
Source: Google News. Last 12 months.
[09] FROM THE POSTINGS
What the job postings tell us.
These details come from the linked postings. Benefits and working arrangements can differ by role and location.
The Senior Laser & SOA Characterization Engineer role requires strong hands-on lab expertise and works with laser design, photonics, packaging, systems, reliability, and software teams.
Source postingThe Mixed-Signal Digital Architect role reports directly to the Chief Scientist and works closely with digital, analog, photonic, and software teams.
Source postingSources reviewed 2026-10-19.
[10] ABOUT
What Lightmatter does.
Lightmatter builds chips that enable extreme-scale artificial intelligence computing clusters. Its Passage photonics engine connects thousands to millions of processors for AI and HPC workloads in data centers.
[11] RESEARCH OUTPUT
What Lightmatter publishes.
Peer-reviewed papers, preprints, and citations attributed to Lightmatter on OpenAlex, the open scholarly-graph index. The volume and citation count of recent work is a strong prestige signal for research-heavy roles.
40papers in the last 2 years
99 all-time4.2 avg citations
Most-cited papers, last 2 years
Universal photonic artificial intelligence acceleration
2025-04-09Sufi R. Ahmed, Reza Baghdadi, Mikhail Bernadskiy +3
64 Gb/s O-Band GeSi Quantum-Confined Stark Effect Electro-Absorption Modulators Integrated in a 300 mm Silicon Photonics Platform
2024-11-25Ahmed Kandeel, Gaspard Hiblot, Clément Porret +3
A blueprint for precise and fault-tolerant analog neural networks
2024-06-14Cansu Demirkiran, Lakshmi S. Nair, Darius Bunandar +1
Mirage: An RNS-Based Photonic Accelerator for DNN Training
2024-06-29Cansu Demirkiran, Guowei Yang, Darius Bunandar +1
A case for server-scale photonic connectivity
2024-11-11Abhishek Vijaya Kumar, Arjun Devraj, Darius Bunandar +1
Most prolific authors, last 2 years
Darius Bunandar · 14 papers
Ajay Joshi · 7 papers
Cansu Demirkiran · 5 papers
[12] INTERVIEW PREP
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[13] HOW TO APPLY
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