Sr Data Analytics Engineer (Bay Area & Boston)

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!

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!

About the role

We are hiring for our Data Platform team at Lightmatter! The Data Platform team is the central hub for all engineering data at Lightmatter, enabling efficient workflows and decision-making across multiple engineering verticals. Our mission is to integrate and serve data from supply chain, OSATs, and internal engineering activities—both pre- and post-silicon—to support product development and high-volume manufacturing.

As part of a small, agile team, you will work across a broad range of responsibilities, from data ingestion and governance to application development and analytics. You’ll play a critical role in designing, developing, and deploying data systems that enable efficient data mining and analysis. In addition to improving product design and enhance operational efficiency.

Success in this role requires a quick learner who is not afraid to step outside their comfort zone across different layers of the technology stack.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into performant, efficient implementations using best-in-class data tools.
• Architect and implement end-to-end data products, including data ingestion, data modeling, and reporting.
• Contribute to in-house software frameworks for parametric results extraction from electronics and photonics components.
• Develop and enforce data governance best practices to ensure security, consistency, and accessibility.
• Leverage AI tools to enhance data discovery and integrate structured and unstructured data sources.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Photonics, Data Science, or related Engineering fields
• 8+ years in data engineering and software development
• Strong expertise in SQL and working experience with Snowflake
• Advanced experience with data orchestration tools like Dagster or Airflow
• Experience in data modeling
• Proficiency in Python for general software development (i.e beyond data manipulation)
• Experience with AWS Cloud services
• Able to integrate DevOps and CI/CD processes, particularly with GitHub Actions or Jenkins
• Best practices in the software development lifecycle, including maintaining Development, Quality Assurance (QA), and Production environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the hardware manufacturing or semiconductor industry
• Hands-on experience with Dagster.
• Experience with serverless architectures using S3, Lambda, SNS, and SQS
• Advanced expertise with Snowflake, including data apps, data sharing, Document AI, and AI/ML features.
• Experience with DBT

We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data.

Salary Range$195,000—$235,000 USD

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Savings Matching Program
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Paid Family Leave
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Commuter Benefits
• Flexible, hybrid workplace model
• Equity grants

Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

Export Control

Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.