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Staff/ Sr. Staff HW Test Automation Engineer

Lightmatter · Mountain View, CA

CHECKED 14H AGO

Infrastructureonsitestaff$167k–$227k
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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
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