Senior Hardware Test Automation Lead

Lightmatter; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter benefit

401(K)

Happy hour

Generous vacation policy and holidays

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Job summary

Lightmatter in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Hardware Test Automation Engineer to design and implement test software for automated device bring-up, characterization, and production testing across bench and ATE environments.

You will collaborate with hardware and characterization teams to translate device physics into repeatable test software and build data pipelines to capture and analyze results. Senior staff will mentor others and drive cross-functional technical decisions.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with ATE test method/test flow development and embedded test frameworks.
• Track record of owning test software architecture across a product line.
• Experience integrating ATE with wafer-level hardware (probers/handlers) is a strong plus.
• Comfortable reading embedded software/C firmware at hardware/software boundary.
• Mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional technical decisions.

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.
• Work directly with hardware and characterization engineers to translate device physics and test requirements into repeatable test software.
• Build and maintain data logging and results pipelines so test data is captured accurately and usable downstream.
• 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.
• Communicate daily with the team on progress and blockers, and spend regular time in the lab working hands-on with hardware.

Skills

ATE Development

Test Automation

C/C++

Firmware Interfaces

Instrumentation Automation

Python/Java

Data Pipelines

Wafer-level Testing

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor in CS/EE

Master or PhD +3 years

Tools

SCPI/VISA

Job description

Lightmatter in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Hardware Test Automation Engineer to design and implement test software for automated device bring-up, characterization, and production testing across bench and ATE environments.

You will collaborate with hardware and characterization teams to translate device physics into repeatable test software and build data pipelines to capture and analyze results. Senior staff will mentor others and drive cross-functional technical decisions.