Senior Hardware Test Automation Engineer – ATE & Photonics

Lightmatter; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter benefit

401(K)

Happy hour

Generous vacation policy and holidays

Learning from peers across electronics

Job summary

Lightmatter is seeking a Hardware Test Automation Engineer to drive automation across wafer test, lab and production environments. You will bridge bench engineering and software teams by implementing scalable test software and data pipelines, while learning hardware to make informed software decisions.

You will own test method development, instrument control, and integration with wafer-level hardware, contributing to robust test flows and tooling in a fast-paced semiconductor/photonics setting.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in hardware test software, ATE systems, or test architecture, ideally in semiconductor or photonics.
• History of mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional technical decisions with hardware, characterization, and manufacturing teams.
• Comfortable reading and reasoning about embedded software (C/C++), controls, or firmware to co-develop with engineers.
• Deep hands-on experience with ATE test method/test flow development and/or embedded test frameworks for hardware test automation, plus fluency with instrumentation automation (SCPI/VISA) at a level to teach others.

Responsibilities

• Design and build test software that automates device bring-up, characterization, and production test sequences across bench and ATE environments.
• Develop and maintain test methods, test flows, and instrument control code depending on level and project; writing and reviewing code daily.
• Work directly with hardware and characterization engineers to translate device physics and test requirements into working, repeatable test software.
• Build and maintain data logging and results pipelines so test data is captured accurately and usable downstream (metrics, yield analysis).
• Debug test hardware/software integration issues across device under test, fixture, instrument, and test code to find root cause.
• Support test program releases to internal test cells and, at senior levels, to external test facilities.

Skills

C/C++

ATE systems

test architecture

SCPI/VISA

wafer prober integration

instrument control

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field

Master’s/PhD with 3+ years in hardware test software

Tools

ATE systems

Embedded test hardware tools

Job description

Lightmatter is seeking a Hardware Test Automation Engineer to drive automation across wafer test, lab and production environments. You will bridge bench engineering and software teams by implementing scalable test software and data pipelines, while learning hardware to make informed software decisions.

You will own test method development, instrument control, and integration with wafer-level hardware, contributing to robust test flows and tooling in a fast-paced semiconductor/photonics setting.