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Staff Sr Staff HW Test in Canada new

  • Lightmatter
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Toronto

Responsibilities

  • Design and build test software for device bring-up, characterization, and production test across bench and ATE environments.
  • Develop and maintain test methods, test flows, and instrument control code.
  • Collaborate with hardware and characterization engineers to translate device physics and test requirements into repeatable test software.
  • Build and maintain data logging and results pipelines for metric computation, yield analysis, and production handoff.
  • Debug integration issues across the device under test, fixtures, instruments, and test code.
  • Own test software architecture and determine how frameworks scale across projects and teams.
  • Support test program releases to internal test cells and, at senior levels, external test facilities.
  • Work hands-on in the lab with hardware and communicate progress and blockers with the team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of experience in hardware test software, ATE systems, or test architecture, ideally in semiconductor or photonics.
  • Experience owning test software architecture for a product line and making framework scalability decisions.
  • Deep hands-on experience with ATE test method or test flow development and/or embedded test frameworks for hardware test automation.
  • Fluency with instrumentation automation using SCPI, VISA, or equivalent, with the ability to teach others.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional technical decisions with hardware, characterization, and manufacturing teams.
  • Ability to explain how an automation project was scoped, planned, implemented, and validated end to end.
  • Ability to work at the hardware/software boundary and reason about embedded software, controls, or firmware, including C/C++.
  • Preferred: Master’s or PhD with 3+ years of relevant experience.
  • Preferred: experience integrating ATE with wafer-level hardware such as probers and handlers.
  • Preferred: experience with photonic test instrumentation.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary of $122,000–$171,000 CAD, plus equity and other rewards.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care plan.
  • Retirement savings matching program.
  • Basic, voluntary, and AD&D life insurance.
  • Vacation, sick leave, and public holidays.
  • Paid family leave and short- and long-term disability coverage.
  • Training and development programs.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Flexible hybrid workplace model.
  • Equity grants for eligible full-time employees; eligibility may vary by employment status and location.

Salary: Competitive

Lightmatter

Lightmatter builds photonic computing and interconnect hardware for AI and high‑performance computing data centers. Its products include Envise, a photonic AI accelerator, and Passage, a 3D‑stacked photonics engine that links large numbers of processors at high bandwidth and low latency. Founded ...

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