Senior Test Automation Engineer, Photonics

Job Summary

The test automation engineer will be responsible for developing and implementing the software, methods and test infrastructure required by standard test flows for various electrical, optical and electro-optical subsystems.

• Leading a complex, high speed electro-optical test station project which includes definition of requirements, equipment sourcing, station assembly, and testing and validation of the finished system.
• Review of sub-system designs including integration of optics, electronics, firmware, software and thermal design.
• Designing and building laboratory setups comprised of light sources, detectors, switches function generators, oscilloscopes, etc.
• Developing SW scripts to automatically drive the measurements setups and feed data into a database.
• Developing SW and algorithms to perform data analysis and extract key performance parameters.
• Developing test plans, standard tests procedures and automated test flows.
• Transferring test procedures and instructions to lab operators.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or physical science with 6+ years of industry experience.
• Experience in the design and testing of high-speed electro-optical sub-systems such as line cards used in telecommunications equipment or similar.
• Able to drive the sourcing and testing of test equipment, optical assemblies, and electronics.
• Proficiency in Python, including the principles of object-oriented programming, for automating data collection and data analysis.
• Experience developing test methods such as tuning/calibration algorithms.
• Experience with interfacing and automating optical hardware test equipment, including power meters, optical back scatter reflectometers (O ), optical spectrum analyzers (OSA), oscilloscopes, function generators (AWG), and vector network analyzers (VNA).
• Technical project management experience preferred.
• Experience with manufacturing execution system (MES) and SQL is preferred.

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• U.S. Base Pay Range: $155,000 — $180,000 USD
• Bay Area Pay Range: $180,000 — $200,000 USD