# Staff/ Sr Staff Technical Program Manager, Hardware Systems

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 a Sr Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive program execution across Lightmatter's Hardware Systems team. You will drive schedules, resource planning, priorities, and cross-functional alignment for all projects and activities within the team - spanning electrical, mechanical, and system engineering.. You will work closely with internal teams such as SI, PI, SW, s

- **Id**: 952097
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lightmatter-sr-staff-technical-program-manager-hardware-systems>
- **Role**: Product
- **Role family**: Product
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Boston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T01:13:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T03:41:32Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-06T03:41:32Z
- **Days open**: 51
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8062
- **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 estimate

- **Min usd**: 192000
- **Max usd**: 356000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 712

## Technologies

- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Project** — Optional: no
- **Smartsheet** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-16T01:37:10Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-06T03:41:32Z

## 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

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