Staff Hardware Test Automation Engineer - Hybrid & Equity

Lightmatter; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement match

Life Insurance

PTO & holidays

Family leave

Disability insurance

Training & development

Hybrid work

Equity grants

Job summary

Lightmatter, based in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Staff/Sr. Staff HW Test Automation Engineer to design and implement test software for photonics hardware across bench and production environments.

You will collaborate with hardware and software teams to automate bring-up, characterization, and data pipelines, ensuring reliable results and scalable test architectures.

This role offers a hybrid work model, competitive compensation, and equity, with a focus on advancing AI data center photonics.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hardware test software experience in semiconductor or photonics.
• Ownership of test software architecture across multiple projects.
• Fluency with instrumentation automation and embedded interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Learn hardware to inform software decisions.
• Design and build test software for bring-up, characterization, and production test.
• Develop and maintain test methods and instrument control code.
• Collaborate with hardware/characterization teams to translate requirements into tests.
• Build data logging and results pipelines for usable metrics.
• Troubleshoot integration issues across device, fixture, instrument, and code.

Skills

Java

Python

C/C++

Test automation

ATE systems

Instrumentation

Data pipelines

Hardware awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Tools

SCPI/VISA

Wafer prober control

LabVIEW

Job description

Lightmatter, based in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Staff/Sr. Staff HW Test Automation Engineer to design and implement test software for photonics hardware across bench and production environments.

You will collaborate with hardware and software teams to automate bring-up, characterization, and data pipelines, ensuring reliable results and scalable test architectures.

This role offers a hybrid work model, competitive compensation, and equity, with a focus on advancing AI data center photonics.