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 seeking a Quality Engineer responsible for ensuring products, processes, and quality systems meet industry standards, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations. This crucial role involves developing and maintaining a robust Quality Management System (QMS) to enhance product quality, improve efficiency and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Develop, lead and manage the execution of QMS and its core processes, coordinating resources and prioritizing tasks for internal and external process and specification development
- Partner with product engineering during new product development phases to ensure compliance with QMS requirements, develop new quality capabilities, and conduct internal audits prior to manufacturing and production readiness reviews
- Create Lightmatter's QMS roadmap for tools and capabilities, aligning with company growth, customer needs, new product quality requirements, and scaling quality processes
- Manage the internal QMS audit process, participate as an auditor
- Create and manage internal CAPA systems for continuous quality improvement
- Communicate with external audit agencies and support any future customer audits
- Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities for the QMS and product quality
- Support the development and delivery of QMS training modules, promoting QMS importance within the organization
- Partner with customer-facing teams to drive root cause analysis and corrective actions for quality issues
- Participate in resolving customer-reported quality issues, collaborating with internal teams for customer interaction
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of quality system or customer quality engineering experience
- Experience with developing QMS at scale and experience in maintaining the internal quality standards
- Expert knowledge of QMS requirements and auditing in complex product environments, in one or more of the following QMS standards: ISO 9001:2015, IATF 16949:2016, TL 9000 R6.3, AS9100D, AS9110C, AS9120B, AS6500, ISO13485:2016 or similar standards
- Working knowledge of semiconductor design, development, prototype manufacturing, supply chain, deployment, contracts, high volume manufacturing and testing
- Familiarity with product life cycle, ERP, and Business intelligence (BI) systems
- Demonstrated success in implementing and maintaining effective QMS
- Proven understanding of silicon product development flow
- Working knowledge of semiconductor quality processes, reliability goals, failure analysis, CAPA process, 8D process and field defect rates
- Willingness to travel 5%-10% of the time
Preferred Qualifications
- ASQ Certification for lead auditor or CQE, CRE, CMQ/oE, CQA
- Experience with low-volume, high-complexity manufacturing
- Experience with onboarding teams and supporting remote site QMS
- Excellent customer and vendor communication skills
We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data.
Salary Range
$183,000—$211,000 USD
- 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.
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