Photonics Hardware Validation Engineer - Hybrid with Equity

Lightmatter; Mountain View (WY); Hybrid; USD 177,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Equity grants

Hybrid workplace

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Training & development

Job summary

Lightmatter, USA, is hiring a Photonics Hardware Validation Engineer to design, develop, and build test systems for validating silicon photonics-based optical interconnect products. You will collaborate with device, hardware, software, and design teams to support end-to-end development, validation, and qualification of photonic systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on bench work, chip bring-up, test-plan development, lab equipment setup, and automated data analysis in a cross-functional team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with bench test equipment for data communications, including electro-optic link testing and characterization.
• Experience in data communications, specifically electro-optic link-level testing and characterization in a lab environment.
• Familiarity with PCB design, including hardware testing and debugging of electro-optic circuits.
• Ability to work with Design, Software and cross-functional teams to drive chip bring-up and validation in lab.
• Basic scripting skills for automation of lab tests including analysis of results and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Understand chip specifications to take responsibility for chip bring-up, testing, and validation of Optical Interconnect products, including test plan development and interoperability testing.
• Contribute to test plan development, test bench configuration, setup of lab test equipment, and troubleshooting of validation setups.
• Work within the product validation team on electro-optic, link-level testing in the lab using industry-standard practices and equipment.

Skills

Bench testing

EO link testing

PCB design familiarity

Automation scripting

Cross-functional collaboration

Chip bring-up

Data communications

Education

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

Tools

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Lightmatter, USA, is hiring a Photonics Hardware Validation Engineer to design, develop, and build test systems for validating silicon photonics-based optical interconnect products. You will collaborate with device, hardware, software, and design teams to support end-to-end development, validation, and qualification of photonic systems.

The role emphasizes hands-on bench work, chip bring-up, test-plan development, lab equipment setup, and automated data analysis in a cross-functional team.