# Sr/Staff Digital 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! We are hiring a Digital Design Engineer to help develop an ASIC for the next-generation artificial intelligence computing architecture alongside a team of world-class scientists and engineers. If your passion is innovation, solving challenging technical problems, and doing impactful work, you should join our team and help build the world's first optical computers! Responsibiliti

- **Id**: 3903858
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lightmatter-srstaff-digital-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T01:28:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T15:14:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4290
- **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**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 123000
- **Max**: 175000
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 125052

## Technologies

- **Cadence Xcelium** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **Synopsys VCS** — Optional: no
- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: no
- **Verilog** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T01:58:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 99
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.993
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:2, wave, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 125052
- **Is top pay**: no

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