Staff/ Sr. Staff HW Test Automation Engineer
Lightmatter · Mountain View, CA
CHECKED 14H AGO
Infrastructureonsitestaff$167k–$227k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build software that brings photonic chips to life from bench to production.
- Automate device bring-up and characterization for extreme-scale AI workloads.
- Prove 3D-stacked photonics connecting processors at speed of light.
What they offer
- New hire equity grant and annual performance-based equity
- Comprehensive health care plan (medical, dental & vision)
- Retirement savings matching program
- Generous time off and paid family leave
- Training & development and commuter benefits
Ideal candidate
Seasoned hardware-adjacent software engineer who loves the lab and owns test architecture end-to-end. You mentor others, bridge hardware and software, and care about repeatable, data-driven bring-up of cutting-edge photonics.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
- 8+ years in hardware test software, ATE systems, or test architecture
- Track record owning test software architecture for a product line
- Deep hands-on experience with ATE test method/flow and instrumentation automation
- History mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional decisions
- Can scope, plan, implement and validate automation end to end
- Comfortable at hardware/software boundary reasoning about embedded C/C++ and firmware
- remote policy
- hybrid
Lab profile
About Lightmatter
Building 3D-stacked photonics engines connecting AI processors at light speed for data centers.
What they build
- Passage™ 3D-stacked photonics engine
- Photonic interconnects for AI / HPC data centers
Known for
- Silicon photonics
- 3D-stacked packaging
- High-speed analog / mixed-signal design
- Electro-optic systems
Key facts
- Raised $400M Series D
- $4.4 billion valuation