Lumotive
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$59M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$14M
Venture round · Jul 2025 · 14 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
8
+2 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Due for its next round
14 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
20/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 8, 2025
Expanded Lumotive opens offices in Oman and Taiwan to boost commercialization of its optical 3D sensor chips · geekwire.com
Jul 22, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $14M · SiliconANGLE
Jul 14, 2025
Partnership SolidVue and Lumotive Collaborate to Advance Next-Generation LiDAR Systems · PRNewswire
Feb 19, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $45M
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Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jul 2025 | $14M | — | SiliconANGLE |
| Venture round | Feb 2025 | $45M | — | geekwire.com |
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How Lumotive hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Lumotive scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
The Lumotive team is growing! Browse Open Positions A NEW ERA: PROGRAMMABLE OPTICS Light Control Metasurface™Optical Beamforming Technology The Era of Programmable Optics Has Begun Beamforming is as easy as software No mirrors, no lenses? No problem.
News
Lumotive Expands Global Footprint and Adds Key Leaders Amid Growing Demand for Programmable Optical Semiconductors
/PRNewswire/ -- Lumotive, a pioneer in programmable optical semiconductor, today announced major global expansion and key leadership hires to meet the surging...
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Lumotive opens offices in Oman and Taiwan to boost commercialization of its optical 3D sensor chips
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Lumotive Adds Amazon And ITHCA Group To Series B Raise
A new generation of software-defined LiDAR enables software configurability of multi-dimensional performance features with universal hardware.
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Lumotive: Investment Raised From Amazon And ITHCA
Lumotive, a pioneer in programmable optical semiconductor tech, announced investments from Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and ITHCA Group.
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Lumotive nabs $14M for its liquid crystal beamforming chips
Startup Lumotive Inc., which makes chips that can change the direction of laser beams, hasraised $14 million in funding.Amazon.com Inc.'s Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and ITHCA Group prov
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Amazon backs programmable optics startup Lumotive
Lumotive reopened its February Series B round to add Amazon's Industrial Innovation Fund and ITHCA Group, increasing the size of the round to $59 million.
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SolidVue and Lumotive Collaborate to Advance Next-Generation LiDAR Systems
/PRNewswire/ -- SolidVue, a leader in SPAD sensor IC technology, announced a strategic collaboration with Lumotive, a US-based pioneer in programmable optical...
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lumotive over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
15
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
C
C++
Embedded C
Frameworks & libraries
Open3D
ROS
Cloud & platforms
Linux
FreeRTOS
RTOS
Unix
AI & ML
LCM
Stable Diffusion
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Full Lumotive tech stack
15 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$115k
Typical range
$100k – $235k
Open positions
7
7
Jobs
Junior
14.3%
Senior
28.6%
Staff
28.6%
Architect
28.6%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $115k | $115k |
| Senior | 2 | $100k | $100k |
| Staff | 2 | $138k | $105k – $170k |
| Architect | 2 | $213k | $190k – $235k |
Highest paying role
Vice President, Operations
$235k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
8
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
117 days
faster than 14% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~14 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
33% ▼
Hardware
33% ▲
Leadership
33% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Unix to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Taipei
Sep 2026
Added SolidWorks to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Redmond
Aug 2026
Added Stable Diffusion to stack
Aug 2026
Added LCM to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Milpitas
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Milpitas
United States
Corporate office
4 open roles 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff $155k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, HR, Management
Redmond
United States
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff $132k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Hardware, Leadership
Taipei
Taiwan
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Hardware
Earlier presence
Muscat, Oman
Jobs
$160k – $190k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Redmond
Stable Diffusion
LCM
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$80k – $100k per year • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Redmond
Python
Git
Unix
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$90k – $105k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Redmond
Python
Stable Diffusion
LCM
DevOps
Git
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≈ $36k – $86k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Taipei
SolidWorks
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$90k – $115k per year • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • Milpitas
Python
C++
RTOS
Git
Linux
IoT
FreeRTOS
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$145k – $170k per year • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Milpitas
Python
C++
CMake
DevOps
RTOS
Git
Linux
Windows
IoT
FreeRTOS
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