Test Automation & Engineering Data Engineer

Touchdown Labs, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Touchdown Labs is seeking a Senior Test Automation & Engineering Data Engineer to advance measurement reproducibility across our semiconductor research and manufacturing initiatives. You will own instrument control, data pipelines, and AI-assisted analysis to accelerate insights.

Based in Santa Clara, CA (with Taiwan collaboration), you will build scalable automation and data schemas for measurement data, ensuring traceability by lot, unit, and recipe. Expect equity and competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and SQL.
• Instrument automation or manufacturing data experience.
• Software engineering discipline.
• Has built test automation used in production or a lab at scale.
• Has designed data schemas for measurement data.

Responsibilities

• Instrument control and automation.
• Data pipelines and traceability.
• AI-assisted analysis of engineering data.

Skills

Python

SQL

Instrument automation

Software engineering discipline

Test automation in prod

Data schema design

Tools

SCPI

PyVISA

Vendor SDKs

Job description

# Test Automation & Engineering Data EngineerBuild the software that makes every measurement reproducible.**Location:** Hsinchu, Taiwan · Santa Clara, CAAll roles →Apply for this role →---SeniorHsinchuSanta ClaraOpenings: 2Open role## Test Automation & Engineering Data Engineer### Our missionAI is becoming fundamental to how the world works. When it is, the ability to compute, and to manufacture the hardware that computes, should not be concentrated in a few places. Touchdown's mission is to make compute accessible to the whole world and to reindustrialize advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. We co-design everything for next-generation compute: the AI systems people use, the software that serves them, the architectures and chips underneath, and the packaging, test, and manufacturing that make them real. Co-design brings down the complexity and cost of building compute. That is what makes manufacturing in America competitive again, and what puts compute within reach of people and companies everywhere. We build alongside the world's best manufacturing ecosystems, including Taiwan's, and every role here makes one layer better and carries what it learns to the rest.### Why this role mattersCo-design runs on measurement. Automation and data infrastructure make every test and experiment reproducible, comparable, and fast to learn from.### Technical scopeInstrument control (SCPI, PyVISA, vendor SDKs); test sequencing and automation frameworks; data schemas and pipelines for test and failure data; traceability by lot, unit, and recipe; analysis tooling and dashboards; AI-assisted analysis with human review.### First 90 days* Take ownership of test automation and data.* Integrate instruments into automated, versioned flows.* Ship analysis that saves engineers time.### What you will own* Instrument control and automation.* Data pipelines and traceability.* AI-assisted analysis of engineering data.### What you bring* Strong Python and SQL.* Instrument automation or manufacturing data experience.* Software engineering discipline.* Has built test automation used in production or a lab at scale.* Has designed data schemas for measurement data.### Helpful experience* STDF and yield analytics### How we work* AI-native by default. You use coding agents, AI-assisted analysis, and automation every day, and you check their output against measurements before anyone relies on it.* We work alongside foundries, test houses, OSATs, and research labs, and we build with partners rather than against them.* Touchdown does not operate a production fab today.* Do not bring, send, or use confidential information or trade secrets from a current or former employer. We hire for skill and judgment, not for anyone else's process recipes.### How the role works* Full-time.* Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan · Santa Clara, CA.* Openings: 2.* Taiwan roles are employed through a local employer of record. Mandarin is a strong plus for Taiwan roles; English is required for written work.* Pay: $155,000–$205,000 base (Santa Clara, CA).* Ranges are base pay for U.S. roles and depend on location, experience, and level. Full-time roles also include equity and benefits. Taiwan pay is set to the local market and discussed in the first call.* Start date and employment details are discussed during the process.Apply for this role →Applications are reviewed against the work described here. We do not use a degree, title, or keyword list as a substitute for evidence.