Staff/Sr. Staff HW Test Automation Engineer (Photonics)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States; flexible hybrid workplace model.

Salary: $167,000–$227,000 USD annually, plus equity and other rewards.

Company

hirify.global develops photonics infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing data centers, including 3D-stacked photonic engines.

What you will do

• Design and build test software for device bring-up, characterization, and production testing across bench and automated test equipment environments.
• Develop test methods, test flows, instrument-control software, and integrations with wafer probers and hardware interfaces.
• Build 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 software.
• Collaborate with hardware and characterization engineers to convert device-physics and test requirements into repeatable automation.
• Support test-program releases and spend regular time working hands-on with hardware in the lab.

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 scaling frameworks across projects and teams.
• Hands-on experience with ATE test methods, test flows, embedded test frameworks, and instrumentation automation using SCPI/VISA or equivalent.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions with hardware, characterization, and manufacturing teams.
• Ability to reason about embedded software, controls, or firmware in C/C++ and collaborate at the hardware/software boundary.

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience integrating ATE with wafer-level hardware, probers, or handlers.
• Experience with photonic test instrumentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid workplace model.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement savings matching, life insurance, disability coverage, and paid family leave.
• Vacation, sick leave, public holidays, commuter benefits, and training and development support.
• Equity grants for full-time employees.
• Capacity to comply with federally mandated U.S. export-control requirements.