# Mechanical Design Engineer

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! In this role, you will be working on leading-edge packaging technologies to enable AI architectures that set new industry standards for compute power, performance, and efficiency. As a member of the Packaging team, you will collaborate with several teams to identify key failure modes under product use conditions and run appropriate parametric design studies to influence product

- **Id**: 309713
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lightmatter-mechanical-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States, Boston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-13T18:43:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-25
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T02:54:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 178
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4788
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Chips & Accelerators, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 16141
- **Name**: Lightmatter
- **Domain**: lightmatter.co
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lightmatter-co>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 53
- **Ghost share**: 0.302
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 135000
- **Max**: 212000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 212000

## Technologies

- **GD&T** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no
- **Abaqus** — Optional: yes
- **ANSYS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 177

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T15:42:26Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 27 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 27

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.3
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 177
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 212000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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