Staff/ Sr. Staff HW Test Automation Engineer
Lightmatter10 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
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.
- Collaborate with hardware and characterization engineers to translate device physics and test requirements into repeatable test software.
- 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.
- Own test software architecture and determine how frameworks scale across projects and teams.
- Support test program releases to internal test cells and, at senior levels, external test facilities.
- Work hands-on in the lab with hardware and communicate progress and blockers with the team.
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.
- Experience owning test software architecture for a product line and making framework scalability decisions.
- 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, with the ability to teach others.
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional technical decisions with hardware, characterization, and manufacturing teams.
- Ability to explain how an automation project was scoped, planned, implemented, and validated end to end.
- Ability to work at the hardware/software boundary and reason about embedded software, controls, or firmware, including C/C++.
- Preferred: Master’s or PhD with 3+ years of relevant experience.
- Preferred: experience integrating ATE with wafer-level hardware such as probers and handlers.
- Preferred: experience with photonic test instrumentation.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary of $122,000–$171,000 CAD, plus equity and other rewards.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care plan.
- Retirement savings matching program.
- Basic, voluntary, and AD&D life insurance.
- Vacation, sick leave, and public holidays.
- Paid family leave and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Training and development programs.
- Commuter benefits.
- Flexible hybrid workplace model.
- Equity grants for eligible full-time employees; 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.