Sr. Engineer, Optoelectronics Test

Overview

Location: San Jose, CA

Job : 506

# of Openings: 0

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On-site in San Jose. As a Sr. Engineer in the Test Hardware group, you will drive the development and maturity of the Test Equipment required to deliver Ayar Labs’ next generation Super Nova and TeraPHY products. Responsibilities include interfacing with Product Development Engineers, Design Engineers, and Validation Engineers to create test software and equipment that deliver trustworthy data to our partners and customers.

You will be joining a small team in a dynamic startup environment, where each member is able and expected to take on a wide range of responsibilities, and to learn and grow with the company.

• Define, develop, implement, and provide hands-on support for Test hardware solutions for Photonics products based on Test Program content, Product Development needs, and Validation requirements
• Determine Tester configuration, including developing Module Technical Specs, and meet with vendors to customize advanced tester modules
• Troubleshoot Tester issues related to optical instrumentation, electrical components, or software
• Identify gaps in test coverage, design, and flow. Implement new tests to improve coverage
• Optimize test flows and processes to enable volume manufacturing
• Work with vendors to design and source probe cards, load boards, control boards, and other key collaterals
• Test and validate product yield compliance with margin to specification across critical functional areas of the products
• Review technical specifications and interfaces for conformity to design guidelines and functionality
• Perform statistical analysis to demonstrate repeatability and reproducibility of Test modules and data
• Interpret test data and create reports based on the results
• Work with Ayar Labs Data Engineering to ensure that test results flow smoothly into internal database

• MS + 2 years of relevant industry experience in Electrical Engineering, Physics or related field
• 2+ years experience testing and characterizing optoelectronic systems and components such as semiconductor lasers, transceivers, wave guides and EDFA's
• Industry or laboratory experience using OSA's, MZM's, DCA's, BER testers, SMU's and polarize rs
• Must have knowledge of CMOS hardware and hands-on experience with bench equipment such as Oscilloscope, VI meter, Signal generator and analyzers
• Experience writing and debugging programs for instrument control
• Experience performing statistical analysis
• Needs understanding of semiconductor physics, optics, fiber optics and/or laser physics

• Ph.D. with knowledge of photonics and optoelectronics
• Understanding of DFT insertion techniques including Scan, ATPG, and LBIST
• Able to read and understand firmware code
• Experience with Python
• Experience working in Windows and Linux environments
• Experience with software version control, including Git tracking

Salary Range: $150,000 - $192,000

NOTE TO RECRUITERS:
Principals only. We are not accepting resumes from recruiters for this position. Remuneration for recruiting activities is only applicable subject to a signed and executed agreement between the parties. Please don’t send candidates to Ayar Labs, and do not contact our managers.

About Ayar Labs:
At Ayar Labs we’re about to revolutionize computing by moving data with light. We’re unleashing processing power for artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cloud and telecommunications by removing the bottlenecks created by today’s electrical I/O -- making it possible to continue scaling computing system performance. Ayar Labs is the first to deliver an optical I/O solution that combines in-package optical I/O chiplets and multi-wavelength remote light sources to replace traditional electrical I/O.

This silicon photonics-based I/O solution enables chips to communicate with each other from millimeters to kilometers, to deliver orders of magnitude improvements in latency, bandwidth density, and power consumption. With our strong collaborations with industry leaders and government, our deep ties to MIT and UC Berkeley, and our commitment to hiring the best engineers in photonics and electronics,…