Lumotive's revolutionary programmable optical semiconductors enhance perception, boost computing power, and ensure robust high-speed communication across various markets.

The award-winning, highly patented Light Control Metasurface (LCM™) chip is the first commercially available software-defined photonic beamforming solid-state technology addressing critical gaps in multiple industries, from 3D sensing to AI computing.

Our LCM™ chip has already secured multiple design wins in our initial market, positioning it at the forefront of the 3D sensing evolution. By merging lidar and ToF camera technologies, it caters to a wide range of markets, including consumer electronics, robotics, industrial, and automotive sectors.

Lumotive was named Fast Company’s Next Big Thing in Tech and won two CES Innovation Awards. Headquartered in Redmond, WA, with offices in San Jose, CA, and Vancouver, Canada, Lumotive is backed by notable investors, including Gates Frontier, MetaVC Partners, Quan Funds, Samsung Ventures, and Uniquest.

The Senior Electrical Engineer plays a key role in a small cross-functional team in a start-up environment developing the next generation Lidar solutions for automotive, industrial and consumer applications. You will participate in defining system level requirements and functions, then translate these requirements to hardware design implementation. You will be responsible for analog, mixed signal, and high-speed digital circuit design and simulation, schematic capture, printed circuit board layout, component selection, prototype bring-up, design validation and design documentation. The candidate must have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively across internal functional teams as well as with third party suppliers, partners, and customers. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to think creatively and to operate within a flexible, fast-paced program dedicated to advancing product development. This position reports to the Sr. Director of Hardware Engineering.  

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of electrical designs to deliver product features, system performance and quality for low-cost high-volume 3D sensing applications. 

• Independently develop transmitter, receiver and compute boards to produce differentiated products based on Lumotive’s core technologies. 

• Responsible for the selection and evaluation of electrical components and subsystems. 

• Responsible for electrical prototyping and testing process and infrastructure. 

• Responsible for planning, execution, and reporting for design validation, electrical performance, and compliance with industry standards. 

• Responsible for board build and bring up, including working with domestic and overseas contractors and suppliers. 

• Work closely with FPGA engineers, mechanical engineers, optical engineers, system engineers, and related cross-functional engineering team members to meet technology, performance, and schedule objectives in delivering product features and requirements. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and develop project plans. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. Advanced degree preferred.  

• Minimum 5 years industry experience or 3 years with advanced degree. 

• Experience in analog, mixed signal, and high-speed digital circuit design. 

• Experience designing multi-layer, high-density and complex PCB. 

• Experience in DFX and best practices for power integrity and signal integrity. 

• Experience and proficiency with schematic capture and PCB layout design tool, Altium Designer preferred. 

• Experience with high-speed differential data interfaces: MIPI CSI 2, LVDS, USB, Ethernet; and serial peripheral interfaces: SPI, I2C, UART. 

• Experience in 3D sensing related technologies (e.g., LiDAR, Radar) desired. 

Pay range is $150,000 to $190,000 (USD) and scaled according to location + Performance based Quarterly Bonus + Equity depending on experience.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental 
• Vision
• FSA
• HSA
• PTO
• 14 Paid Holidays
• Company paid Benefits
  • Life Insurance 
  • Long Term Disability 
  • Short Term Disability

Lumotive is an equal opportunity employer - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other legally protected status.

All your information will be kept confidential.