Photonics Hardware Engineer - PCB, Embedded & Test

Teradyne; Invercargill City; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid birthday leave

Employee assistance programme

Great staff facilities

Walking distance from ConstellationBus

Flexible and supportive work env.

Job summary

Teradyne's Quantifi Photonics in New Zealand seeks a Hardware Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and validate electronic hardware for photonics test systems. You will apply rigorous analogue, digital, and mixed-signal design across prototype bring-up to production, ensuring reliability, manufacturability, and cost targets.

You will collaborate with Systems, Firmware, Software, Mechanical, NPI, Test Systems, Production, and Supply Chain teams to deliver robust hardware solutions and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in EE/CE or related field required.
• 3+ years hardware design, development, testing or support experience.
• Schematic capture, PCB layout and design-for-manufacture knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own design and development of circuits, PCBAs, hardware modules.
• Translate requirements into hardware specs, test plans, verification evidence.
• Schematic capture, component selection, layout, prototype bring-up.
• Plan and execute lab testing with oscilloscopes and power supplies.
• Debug hardware with root-cause analysis and implement improvements.
• Develop automated test and data-analysis scripts for efficiency.
• Maintain design docs, BOMs, and release data in PLM systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet production needs.
• Establish manufacturing tests and acceptance criteria for new PCBAs.

Skills

Analogue & digital circuit design

Mixed-signal & power electronics

Python or MATLAB test scripting

C/C++ embedded programming

Git or SVN version control

Hands-on lab equipment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Altium Designer

Job description

Teradyne's Quantifi Photonics in New Zealand seeks a Hardware Engineer to design, develop, integrate, and validate electronic hardware for photonics test systems. You will apply rigorous analogue, digital, and mixed-signal design across prototype bring-up to production, ensuring reliability, manufacturability, and cost targets.

You will collaborate with Systems, Firmware, Software, Mechanical, NPI, Test Systems, Production, and Supply Chain teams to deliver robust hardware solutions and