Director, Test Engineering

Creandum; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity/Stock options

Living-Local Bonus

Retirement plan

Competitive compensation

Job summary

OLIX seeks a Director of Test Engineering to lead manufacturing test strategy, architecture, equipment, automation, and processes for the DX-1 AI accelerator across component, subsystem, and final product testing.

You will partner with Engineering, NPI, Quality, Industrial Engineering, and manufacturing partners to ensure test capability meets quality, coverage, cycle time, and cost objectives as we scale from NPI to high-volume production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Optical/Computing engineering or related field.
• 15+ years of engineering leadership in Test Engineering with 5+ years leading teams.
• Expertise in manufacturing test architecture, equipment, and automation.
• Experience from NPI to high-volume manufacturing for complex electrical/optical products.
• Proven ability to optimize coverage, throughput, yield, and cost.
• Experience building automated test systems and analyzing data.
• Ability to partner with contract manufacturers to scale production.
• Outstanding leadership, communication, and stakeholder relationship skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end manufacturing test strategy across components and final products.
• Design, integrate, validate, and qualify test equipment, fixtures, and software.
• Ensure test readiness for manufacturing launches with cross-functional partners.
• Improve test coverage, throughput, cycle time, and cost; reduce false failures.
• Scale test manufacturing with partners to support ramp and high-volume production.

Skills

Test leadership

Test architecture

Automation

Instrumentation

Data analysis

Vendor management

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree (EE/Optical)

Tools

Test software

Instrumentation

Job description

About OLIX

AI is growing faster than any technology in history and the explosion in demand has created a massive infrastructure gap; we can no longer build chips or power stations fast enough to keep up. The industry is still leaning on a ten-year-old hardware blueprint that has reached its limit. A new paradigm that is faster and more efficient will be the biggest economic opportunity of the next century and create the most important company of the next decade. The OLIX Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1) is the first accelerator architected specifically for decode. Rack-scale co-design of logic, data movement, packaging, optics and interconnect enables a step change in system level performance.

The Role

We're looking for a Director of Test Engineering to develop and industrialize the test solutions required to support OLIX's next-generation AI computing solution. You'll own manufacturing test strategy, test architecture, equipment, automation, and test processes across component, subsystem, and final product test, ensuring scalable test capability that meets quality, coverage, cycle time, and cost objectives from NPI through high-volume manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities

Develop manufacturing test strategy: Define the end-to-end manufacturing test strategy, architecture, coverage, and requirements across component, subsystem, and final product test.

Develop and qualify test solutions: Design, integrate, validate, and qualify test equipment, fixtures, instrumentation, software, and automation required for production.

Deliver production test readiness: Partner with Engineering, NPI, Quality, Industrial Engineering, and manufacturing partners to develop test processes and ensure test capability is ready for manufacturing launch.

Optimize test performance: Improve test coverage, repeatability, throughput, cycle time, yield, and cost while reducing false failures and unnecessary test content.

Scale test manufacturing capability: Deploy, qualify, and sustain test solutions with manufacturing partners to support production ramp and high-volume manufacturing.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Optical Engineering, or related technical discipline.

• 15+ years of engineering leadership experience in Test Engineering, Manufacturing Test, or Product Test within semiconductor, photonics, electronics, or advanced computing, including at least five years leading teams.

• Subject matter expertise in manufacturing test architecture, test equipment, instrumentation, fixtures, automation, and test software.

• Experience developing and qualifying test solutions for complex electrical, optical, and high-speed products from NPI through high-volume manufacturing.

• Proven success optimizing test coverage, yield, throughput, cycle time, repeatability, and cost.

• Experience developing automated test systems and analyzing test data to identify failures, improve test capability, and drive manufacturing performance.

• Proven ability to partner with contract manufacturers to deploy, qualify, and scale production test capability.

• Exceptional leadership, communication, and relationship-building skills with the ability to influence executive stakeholders and build high-performing teams.

Nice to Have

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Optical Engineering, or another advanced technical discipline.

• Experience with high-speed electrical interconnect, optical interconnect, photonics, or advanced AI compute hardware.

• Six Sigma or other advanced continuous improvement certification.

Compensation & Equity

• Competitive Salary: Commensurate with your experience, skills, and location

• Equity & Ownership: Meaningful stock options. You’re not just joining the mission; you’re owning a piece of it

• Proximity Bonus: We value your time. To minimise your commute and maximise your life, we offer an annual Living-Local Bonus if your residence is within 20 minutes of the office

• Retirement Benefits:Employer-contributed retirement plans to help you build long-term financial security

Due to U.S. export control regulations, candidates’ eligibility to work at OLIX depends on their most recent citizenship or permanent residency status. We are generally unable to consider applicants whose most recent citizenship or permanent residence is in certain restricted countries (currently including Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Russia, Belarus, China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Venezuela). Applicants who have subsequently obtained citizenship or permanent residency in another country not subject to these restrictions may still be eligible.