Photonics Test Engineer

Ayo Semiconductor•Boston, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Ayo is a venture-backed early-stage startup that will radically redefine how humanity performs computing for AI. Our photonic processors will provide orders of magnitude improvement in speed and power efficiency in comparison to conventional digital compute platforms by taking advantage of the natural parallelism, speed, and energy efficiency of light. We are seeking a Photonics Test Engineer to serve as a core team member and among the first employees at Ayo. You will be responsible for operating and expanding our automated wafer-level test capabilities, writing the scripts that run them, and executing hands-on measurements that feed directly into our design and fabrication cycles. You will serve as the hands and eyes of the integrated photonics team, capturing and preparing the data that will shape the decisions we make on every chip we build.

Requirements

Expertise using standard photonic test equipment, including tunable lasers, photodetectors, spectrum analyzers, and fiber optic components
Expertise using standard electronic test equipment, including source measurement units, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and power supplies
Strong Python and/or MATLAB skills applied to instrument control, data collection, or analysis
Comfortable working with fiber optic components and semiconductor probing equipment in a lab environment
Familiarity with the fundamentals of integrated photonics

Nice To Haves

Experience with automated wafer-level test equipment, such as automated wafer probers
Experience testing photonic integrated circuits

Responsibilities

Use our automated wafer prober to measure integrated photonic devices
Write automated probing scripts in Python to control test equipment and collect data
Devise and build manual test setups and execute measurements
Prepare and analyze test data for the integrated photonics team