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Embedded Software Development Intern (Boston)

Lightmatter
Boston, MA Intern
POSTED ON 2/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/14/2025

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 this Role

We are hiring an Intern for our Platform Software team at Lightmatter! We are a photonic computer company redefining what computers and human beings are capable of by building the engines that will power discoveries and drive progress in a sustainable way. With modern human progress relying heavily on computers, the world has hit a dead end with traditional transistors, and the prospect of constantly building data centers is an environmental nightmare. Lightmatter has created a solution in photonic computing : using photons instead of electrons to take advantage of their higher bandwidth. We build chips for artificial intelligence computing. Our architecture leverages the unique properties of light to enable fast and efficient inference and training engines.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to enhancing the CI / CD workflow for projects underway, making use of your embedded experience
  • Incorporate Development Kit hardware test workflows into the software review and approval process
  • Write and debug integration tests for embedded code
  • Contribute to production software and firmware code bases

Requirements

  • Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate engineering university program, in Computer Science or related field
  • Familiarity with Hardware Abstraction Layer for embedded systems
  • Knowledge of buses, bus drivers and peripheral devices in embedded systems
  • Proficiency with GitHub
  • Experience in one or more environments (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Travis CI, etc.)
  • Proficiency with Python or C / C
  • Willingness to learn from an exciting team!
  • Our internship hourly rates are a standard pay determined based on the position and your location, year in school, degree, and experience.

    Hourly Rate in USD

    28-$48 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.

    Salary : $28 - $48

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