Photonics Test Engineer

About the role

Ayo 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.

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

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

Qualifications

• Preferred qualifications include experience with automated wafer-level test equipment, such as automated wafer probers
• Experience testing photonic integrated circuits

Skills

• Expertise using standard photonic test equipment
• Expertise using standard electronic test equipment
• Strong Python and/or MATLAB skills
• Comfortable working with fiber optic components and semiconductor probing equipment
• Familiarity with the fundamentals of integrated photonics

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity commensurate with stage and seniority
• Benefits package including health, dental, and vision
• Full-time onsite in Boston

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD

Benefits

• Health
• Dental
• Vision