12 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect modular software for automated optical, electrical, MEMS, and system-level test stations.
- Integrate laboratory instruments, motion systems, control electronics, DUT interfaces, and supporting hardware.
- Develop instrument drivers, hardware abstraction layers, APIs, automated sequences, calibration, limits checking, and result handling.
- Build reliable data acquisition, logging, metadata, structured storage, diagnostics, exception handling, and station monitoring systems.
- Scale prototype engineering setups into reproducible validation, qualification, manufacturing, and multi-lab test platforms.
- Support deployment, commissioning, debugging, maintenance, documentation, version control, code review, automated testing, and release management.
- Collaborate with optical, photonics, MEMS, hardware, firmware, systems, reliability, product validation, manufacturing, and operations teams.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Applied Physics, Mechatronics, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of experience developing software for automated test equipment, laboratory instrumentation, semiconductor test, optical test, hardware validation, or hardware-in-the-loop systems.
- Strong Python and/or C++ software development skills, with Python strongly preferred.
- Experience controlling physical instrumentation and hardware through software and developing instrument drivers, hardware abstraction layers, automated test sequences, or station-control frameworks.
- Familiarity with VISA/PyVISA, SCPI, serial, TCP/IP, USB, GPIB, REST APIs, or vendor SDKs.
- Experience building data acquisition, logging, configuration, and structured test-result pipelines.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in modular architecture, debugging, version control, testing, and documentation.
- Ability to troubleshoot issues spanning software, instrumentation, electrical hardware, and physical test systems.
- Experience working directly with hardware engineers, scientists, or validation teams in a laboratory environment.
- Preferred experience with optical or photonic test equipment, silicon photonics, optical transceivers, MEMS, semiconductor devices, electro-optical systems, motion control, FPGA/ASIC test boards, embedded systems, or electromechanical devices.
- Preferred familiarity with LabVIEW, TestStand, pytest, Docker, CI/CD, automated deployment, long-duration reliability testing, high-volume parametric data collection, and AI-assisted development tools.
About nEye.ai
nEye.ai builds MEMS-based silicon photonics optical circuit switches that interconnect thousands of GPUs and memory units for AI and high‑performance computing in hyperscale data centers. Its SuperSwitch is a high‑radix, chip‑scale, low‑power optical switch sold to cloud and HPC operators integrating photonic fabrics into their networks. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Santa Clara, the privately held company targets data center scalability and power efficiency constraints with programmable photonic integrated circuits.