Director, Reliability Engineering

Lumotive is pioneering the era of programmable optics—where light is controlled as intelligently and flexibly as software.

At the heart of this transformation is a once-in-a-generation innovation: a flat CMOS-based “general purpose optic.” Lumotive’s Light Control Metasurface (LCM™) beam forming chips can be programmed to function as a beam steering mirror, a lens, mirror, a beam splitter—or any optical function—replacing bulky and mechanical optical components with a fully digital, reconfigurable semiconductor . This breakthrough lays the foundation for a massive shift in multiple technologies—from 3D sensing and imaging to optical networking, free space optical communication, and beyond. Like the shift from analog to digital in electronics, programmable optics will reshape industries from robotics, self-driving cars, AI, defense, and healthcare.

Lumotive’s first commercial application is in LiDAR, where its software-defined beam steering chips are already enabling compact, high-performance, solid-state sensors. These sensors are being deployed today in smart infrastructure, robotics, and mobility systems through leading module makers and solution integrators.

With more than 200 patents and growing commercial traction, Lumotive is delivering the world’s first digital platform for light—and redefining what’s possible in the optical age.

Job Description:

We are looking for a Director of Reliability Engineering to own reliability end to end — from the physics of how an LCM degrades to the qualification data package delivered for customer sign-off.

The LCM is a new class of semiconductor device: a CMOS backplane, novel thin-film material stacks, and liquid crystal. It ships into products whose mission profiles range from climate-controlled indoor robotics to outdoor infrastructure and automotive-grade exposure. The standard qualification playbooks were not written for this device, and the acceleration models often have to be built from data we generate ourselves.

You will set the reliability and qualification strategy for the LCM and the reference designs in which they are deployed, collect customer mission profiles and translate them into stress conditions and lifetime requirements, run the studies that determine whether we meet them, and drive the findings back into process, materials, design, and system architecture. You will also present our reliability data directly to customers and their quality teams.

We want someone who runs qualification surgically: studies that are carefully designed, well controlled, and executed as planned, so the result holds up when a customer challenges it. Someone with the depth to work unfamiliar failure modes from first principles, the judgment to know which risks matter at the system level, and the instinct to hunt for the failure modes we have not characterized yet — before a customer finds them.