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title: 'EDA & CAD Manager at Lumilens'
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# EDA & CAD Manager at Lumilens

- **Company:** Lumilens
- **Location:** San Jose, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lumilens/e2ca7d7f-0cd2-46fc-b9b4-59b601e533a5

## Job description

## ABOUT LUMILENS

At Lumilens we are building the critical photonics infrastructure that powers tomorrow’s AI supercomputing. From chip-to-chip optical interconnects to scalable photonic engines, Lumilens is unlocking a new era of computing faster, cooler, and massively more efficient.

We’re a well-funded startup backed by Mayfield and led by industry’s veterans who’ve built and scaled some of the most transformative technologies in the industry. This isn’t incremental innovation, it’s a ground-floor opportunity to rethink the optical layer from the silicon up. You’ll work alongside a team of world-class engineers solving some of the hardest challenges in optics, systems, and scale. Every line of code, every design decision, every breakthrough you help deliver will shape the infrastructure of tomorrow.

If you're looking for mission, momentum, and the chance to make an outsized impact jump on the rocket ship. We’re just getting started.

## POSITION OVERVIEW

We are seeking an experienced EDA & CAD Manager to build and manage a robust design environment that supports multiple disciplines of IC designers across Lumilens. This role will own critical EDA methodology, CAD flows, design infrastructure, tool administration, and automation that enable faster, more reliable silicon development. You will partner closely with IC design, IT, and engineering leadership to strengthen our foundation, scale our tool environment, and improve the pace and quality of development across multiple programs.

What You'll Do:

- Support IC design and IT leadership with EDA tool upgrades, infrastructure improvements, and methodology enhancements across analog, mixed-signal design, layout and verification, and digital design and verification environments.
- Manage repositories for PDKs, internal and external IP, design data, and tools from multiple vendors, ensuring configuration control, reliability, and ease of adoption for engineering users.
- Advise design and IT leadership on future planning, EDA methodology improvements, design environment scalability, and infrastructure investments that support rapid growth.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain custom tools, scripts, automation, and plug-ins that improve designer productivity and are easily adopted across teams.
- Support CAD flows integrating tools such as Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, Pegasus, Genus, Innovus, Xcelium, Synopsys IC compiler, Siemens EDA, Calibre and related verification and signoff infrastructure.
- Maintain and troubleshoot EDA infrastructure, including Linux and Unix environments, compute-farm integration, environment modules, tool-version management, license servers, and interactions between EDA applications and engineering infrastructure.
- Build and support automated regression, validation, build, and deployment pipelines for EDA tools, design flows, and CAD environments.
- Stay current with advancements in EDA tools, CAD methodologies, license management, IP management, and design infrastructure relevant to Lumilens’ technical goals.

What You'll Bring:

- Deep understanding of Cadence/Synopsys tool flows, including analog and mixed-signal design tools such as Virtuoso, AMS, and Spectre.
- Hands-on experience with layout and signoff tools such as PVS, Pegasus, and Calibre, as well as synthesis, APR, and physical design tools such as Genus, Innovus and Fusion Compiler.
- Experience supporting multiple PDKs simultaneously, with familiarity with Intel, TSMC and GlobalFoundries preferred.
- Strong experience with revision control, repository administration, and methodology recommendations using systems such as Perforce, VersIC, Git, or similar tools.
- Experience managing internal and external IP, design data, PDK releases, and tool environments across multiple vendors and engineering teams.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Perl, Tcl, Bash/Shell, and SKILL, including automation of EDA flows, tool setup, regression runs, log parsing, environment configuration, and design-data processing.
- Experience administering and troubleshooting FlexNet/FlexLM license environments, including license-server configuration, lmstat/lmutil diagnostics, feature availability, checkout failures, queueing, utilization monitoring, and vendor-daemon issues.
- Strong Linux and Unix troubleshooting skills, including LSF, Slurm, or Grid Engine compute-farm integration, environment modules, tool-version management, and debugging interactions between EDA tools, compute infrastructure, and license servers.
- Demonstrated history of solving complex problems for EDA users and improving the reliability, usability, and scalability of design environments.

Nice-to-Haves:

- Experience supporting remote computing environments such as ETX.
- Experience supporting engineering teams across multiple international locations.
- Some degree of systems administration ability across Linux, storage, compute, and engineering infrastructure environments.
- Experience with build systems such as Make, GNU Make, CMake, and custom Makefile-based flows, including build dependencies, environment setup, and reproducible EDA/CAD workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD and regression infrastructure such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions, including automated regression, validation, build, and deployment pipelines for EDA tools and design flows.

Why Join Us? ● Competitive salary commensurate with experience ● Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance ● Professional development opportunities and certification support ● Access to cutting-edge technology and cloud platforms ● Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams ● Lumilens is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, identity, orientation, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

## About Lumilens

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lumilens designs and manufactures next-generation photonic interconnects to massively scale AI compute infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – led by Accton Technology; prior Series A of $30M from Mayfield and Spark Capital)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Ankur Singla (CEO), Samuel Liu (VP Products), Ritesh Kapahi (VP/GM India), Dave Friedman (VP Operations)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Photonics / optical interconnects for AI data centers
- **Target customers**: Large-scale AI providers and hyperscale data center operators (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission**: “To rapidly innovate in photonics and connectivity architectures to enable the massive scaling of compute infrastructure required to deliver the full potential of AI.”

## Products & Services
- **Photonic Interconnects (Scale-Out & Scale-Up)**: High-density, low-latency optical links that enable cluster-to-cluster and direct GPU-to-GPU connectivity. Supports 100x higher quantity of GPU direct connections than legacy approaches.
  - *Type*: Hardware (silicon photonics modules) + integrated manufacturing
- **Automated Manufacturing Platform**: End-to-end custom robotics and AI-optimized production processes to maximize yield, quality, and supply-chain flexibility.
  - *Type*: Service / Manufacturing capability (in-house)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $30M Series A (June 2024); Series B led by Accton Technology (amount undisclosed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mayfield, Spark Capital, Accton Technology
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 287% YoY (54 employees as of mid-2025) [linkedin.com]
  - Operations in 8 countries: USA, India, Thailand, Poland, Singapore, Czechia, South Korea, Malaysia
  - 48 active job postings (+23.1% monthly growth) [linkedin.com]
  - Leadership team with deep photonics/networking experience from Cisco, Juniper, Meta, Lumentum, Coherent

## Competitive Advantages
- **In-house silicon photonics development** – full control over design and supply chain
- **Systems-level expertise** – can partner on both scale-out and scale-up architectures
- **Manufacturing automation** – robotics + AI processes enable faster innovation, higher quality, and predictable deployment
- **Standards-based interconnects** – easy deployment into existing infrastructure
- **Manufacturing anywhere** – supply-chain continuity and scalable manufacturing

## Strategic Focus
- Enable massive scaling of AI infrastructure by overcoming electrical/copper limitations with advanced photonics
- Disaggregate GPUs to mitigate power and density challenges in data centers
- Expand manufacturing capacity globally and continue to automate production
- Align product roadmap with industry standards to accelerate adoption

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced startup environment with deep technical expertise; mission-driven focus on enabling the future of AI
- **Work policy**: In-office (HQ San Jose, CA with Bengaluru, India as major hub) [builtin.com]
- **Perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge photonics, robotics, and AI manufacturing; direct impact on world’s largest AI infrastructure
- **Engineering culture**: Heavy emphasis on silicon photonics, hardware design, robotics automation, and system-level architecture. Teams are led by veterans from Cisco, Juniper, Meta, Lumentum, Coherent.

## Sources
1. [lumilens.com](https://lumilens.com/) – Company overview, mission, leadership, products
2. [lumilens.com/company](https://lumilens.com/company) – Vision, investors, leadership team
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/lumilens) – Career page, employee count, year founded, office policy
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lumilens) – Headcount, funding details, geographic/department breakdown, job trends, talent sources
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lumilens) – Current job openings (48 listings)

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