Senior Validation Engineer, Electro-Optical Devices

Senior Validation Engineer, Electro-Optical Devices at Psi Quantum, Milpitas, California (remote). A senior-level full time position in the 4565 - Sub System Validation team, listed under hardware engineering.

Come join us.

The Senior Validation Engineer will be responsible for developing and implementing the methods and techniques to validate the performance of various electro-optical subsystems, drive measures in the Engineering environment, debug issues, and supervise larger quantity builds in manufacturing

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Actual compensation may vary outside of these ranges and is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's qualifications, relevant education and training, competencies, experience, geographic location, business needs, and internal equity. Your recruiter can share more details about the salary range applicable to your location during the hiring process.

• Zone 1 - Bay Area and NYC
• Zone 2 - Examples include Los Angeles and Washington DC
• Zone 3 - Examples include Austin, Chicago, and Sacramento
• Zone 4 - Examples include Nashville and Phoenix/Tempe and many remote locations

This position includes the following benefits:

• competitive health coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with company match
• equity grants
• access to financial wellness tools and planning resources
• wellness benefits
• family support programs
• life and disability insurance
• paid leave programs
• company-designated paid holidays
• discretionary time off (DTO)
• an end-of-year company shutdown

Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

• Review electro-optical design from simple PCBA + Optical assemblies to more complex designs where multiple PCBA & optical parts work together. Including integration of optics, electronics, firmware, software, and thermal design.
• Identify key parameters to measure and methods for the specific measurements, in collaboration with the Design team.
• Write the full validation plan for the characterization of new designs, estimate time to complete measures on large quantities of devices.
• Design and run experiments to validate design functionality and performance: from building laboratory setups comprised of light sources, detector, switches; function generators, oscilloscopes, etc., to developing software scrips and algorithms to collect relevant data, perform data analysis and extract key performance parameters.
• Own the validation effort: supervise the measures, provide reports with expected yield indications for the operation team. Identify issues, provide detailed descriptions and help identify root cause, enable design and/or process engineer to identify fixes. Have a high awareness of milestones and impact of delay on overall program.
• Work with operations team / manufacturing to review build data and yield indication.

• Experience with Python is preferred.
  
  Experience with EDVT & Fast Fail methodology.
• Familiarity with programming CPUs to interface with FPGA's is a plus.