Senior Hardware Test Automation Engineer, Photonics

The role

The Senior Hardware Test Automation Engineer, Photonics will lead test automation and test station development for electro-optical components. This includes designing test stations, developing automation software, and acquiring data from electrical, optical, and electro-optical systems.

What you will do

• Lead the team designing, building, and validating electro-optical test stations.
• Define test station features and capabilities to match requirements.
• Select instrumentation and devices for measurements on subassemblies.
• Manage equipment sourcing and station assembly.
• Develop optimized software scripts to automate test measurements, data analysis, and device characterization.
• Analyze test data to extract performance parameters and create reports.
• Store acquired data and analysis results in a designated database.
• Build code using object-oriented programming design principles.
• Review test station performance and explore enhancements.
• Write operator work instructions and training procedures.

Required qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering, computer physical science, or equivalent degrees, or 6+ years of industry experience.
• Experienced with interfacing and automating optical hardware test equipment, including power meters, optical backscatter reflectometers (OBR), optical spectrum analyzers (OSA), oscilloscopes, function
• Experienced in developing test methods such as tuning/calibration algorithms.
• Proficiency in Python, including the principles of object-oriented programming, for automating data collection and data analysis.
• Experienced in leveraging AI to resolve common problems and to develop code.
• Knowledgeable in the sourcing of test equipment and electronics, and the testing of optical assemblies, and electronics.
• Experienced in the design and testing of high-speed electro-optical systems such as line cards used in telecommunications equipment or similar.
• Technical project management experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with manufacturing execution systems (MES) and SQL

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits

About the company

PsiQuantum's mission is to build the first useful quantum computers using silicon photonics architecture. The company focuses on building and deploying million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems.