Staff / Sr. Staff HW Test Automation Engineer

Mountain View, CAfull time

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senior

$154k–$213k

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Lightmatter The Staff / Sr. Staff HW Test Automation Engineer designs and builds test software for photonic chips, automating device bring-up, characterization, and production test sequences. This role works closely with hardware engineers and supports test program releases.

Responsibilities

Learn the hardware you're automating well enough to make informed software decisions about it.
Design and build test software that automates device bring-up, characterization, and production test sequences across bench and ATE environments.
Develop and maintain test methods, test flows, and instrument control code depending on level and project while writing code and reviewing code are both daily parts of the role.
Work directly with hardware and characterization engineers to understand their needs and translate device physics and test requirements into working, repeatable test software.
Build and maintain data logging and results pipelines so test data is captured accurately and usable downstream (metric computation, yield analysis, production handoff).
Debug test hardware/software integration issues, working across the device under test, the fixture, the instrument, and the test code to find root cause.
Support test program releases to internal test cells and, at senior levels, to external test facilities.
Communicate daily with the team on progress and blockers, and spend regular time in the lab working hands-on with hardware.

Qualification

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceCan articulateMaster's/PhD with 3+ years

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field.
8+ years of experience in hardware test software, ATE systems, or test architecture, ideally in semiconductor or photonics.
Track record of owning test software architecture for a product line, including decisions on how the framework scales across projects and teams.
Deep hands-on experience with ATE test method/test flow development and/or embedded test frameworks for hardware test automation, plus fluency with instrumentation automation (SCPI/VISA or equivalent) at a level where you can teach it to others.
History of mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional technical decisions with hardware, characterization, and manufacturing teams.
Can articulate, end to end, how they scoped, planned, implemented, and validated an automation project.
Comfortable working at the hardware/software boundary — reading and reasoning about embedded software (C/C++), controls, or firmware well enough to co-develop directly with the engineers who own it.

Preferred

Master's/PhD with 3+ years, of experience in hardware test software, ATE systems, or test architecture, ideally in semiconductor or photonics.
Experience integrating ATE with wafer-level hardware (probers, handlers) is a strong plus.
Experience with photonic test instrumentation

Benefits

Dental
Vision
Equity/RSU
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

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