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Lightmatter

Photonic computing hardware for AI acceleration

Financial Planning and Analysis Manager - Supply Chain & Revenue

Corporate Finance & FP&APosted on Nov 13
Full-timeMountain View, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • The role requires 5–8 years of progressive experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Operational Finance within the semiconductor industry.
  • The role requires demonstrated understanding of semiconductor economics, including tape-outs, die yields, wafer fabrication workflows, OSAT pricing, and inventory capitalization.
  • The role requires advanced Excel modeling capabilities and proven experience building complex, bottom-up manufacturing COGS models from scratch.
  • The role requires active use of and enthusiasm for modern AI and large language model tools to optimize complex modeling, data synthesis, and day-to-day work.
  • The role requires a bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver comprehensive customer-level revenue forecasts, tracking units from sample evaluation through customer qualification and high-volume production ramp.
  • Audit the sales pipeline alongside Sales Operations, analyzing average selling prices, customer mix, volume discount tiering, and non-recurring engineering revenue timing.
  • Create and maintain dynamic, bottom-up financial models for cost of goods sold, inventory absorption, standard-to-actual cost variance, and gross margin optimization.
  • Support Supply Chain and Operations teams by aligning commercial revenue demand against foundry capacity reservations, long-lead inventory commitments, and wafer build schedules.
  • Manage capacity and cost models for Electronic Design Automation software licensing and high-performance computing cloud data hosting.
  • Partner with Accounting on work-in-process inventory valuation and month-end close commentary.

Desired Qualifications

  • Prior experience in a fast-growing, high-tech hardware startup.
  • A proven track record of building revenue forecasts, auditing sales pipelines, and partnering directly with Sales, Sales Operations, or Commercial teams.
  • Familiarity with enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and FP&A tools such as Salesforce, NetSuite, Anaplan, Pigment, and Workday Adaptive.
  • A strong cross-functional presence and a track record of challenging sales pipeline or engineering assumptions with data-backed rigor.

About the Company

Lightmatter

Photonic computing hardware for AI acceleration

Lightmatter develops photonic computing hardware that accelerates AI workloads using light-based processors. Its photonic supercomputers run AI tasks faster and use far less energy (about 10x faster and 90% less energy) than traditional electronic systems. The company differentiates itself by focusing on electro-photonic systems and practical AI acceleration for AI and autonomous vehicle workloads, working with universities and selling hardware, software licenses, and partnerships. Its goal is to bring scalable photonic computing to market so AI and self-driving applications can run faster, more efficiently, and at larger scale.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Series D
Total funding
$822M
Headquarters
Mountain View, CA
Founded
2017

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