Staff/ Sr. Staff HW Test Automation Engineer
Lightmatter10 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$167k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build test software for device bring-up, characterization, and production test across bench and ATE environments.
- Develop and maintain test methods, test flows, and instrument-control code.
- Translate device physics and test requirements into reliable, repeatable automation software with hardware and characterization engineers.
- Build and maintain data logging and results pipelines for metric computation, yield analysis, and production handoff.
- Debug integration issues across the device under test, fixtures, instruments, and test code.
- Support test program releases to internal test cells and, at senior levels, external test facilities.
- Own test software architecture for a product line and determine how frameworks scale across projects and teams.
- Mentor engineers and drive technical decisions with hardware, characterization, and manufacturing teams.
- Work hands-on in the lab and communicate daily on progress and blockers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a 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.
- Deep hands-on experience with ATE test method or test flow development and/or embedded test frameworks for hardware test automation.
- Fluency with instrumentation automation using SCPI/VISA or equivalent, at a level where it can be taught to others.
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional technical decisions.
- Ability to explain how an automation project was scoped, planned, implemented, and validated end to end.
- Ability to read and reason about embedded software in C/C++, controls, or firmware and co-develop with hardware engineers.
- A master’s degree or PhD with 3+ years of relevant experience may qualify.
- Experience integrating ATE with wafer-level hardware such as probers or handlers is preferred.
- Experience with photonic test instrumentation is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision healthcare plan.
- Retirement savings matching program.
- Basic, voluntary, and AD&D life insurance.
- Vacation, sick, and public holidays.
- Paid family leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Training and development.
- Commuter benefits.
- Flexible hybrid workplace model.
- Equity grants for eligible full-time employees.
- Benefits eligibility may vary by employment status and location.
About Lightmatter
Lightmatter builds photonic computing and interconnect hardware for AI and high‑performance computing data centers. Its products include Envise, a photonic AI accelerator, and Passage, a 3D‑stacked photonics engine that links large numbers of processors at high bandwidth and low latency. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the privately held company sells chips and systems to data center operators and AI infrastructure providers.