Photonic Test Engineer

Develop and implement high-throughput test plans to characterize quantum emitters embedded in active and passive large-scale on-chip silicon photonic circuits – cryogenic and room-temperature

Plan for new measurement concepts and architectures to validate and improve quantum emitter performance

Design and optimise measurement sequences to reduce cycle time and maximise test throughput

Develop and document test and measurement processes and procedures, including developing standard operating procedures

Define test stations that integrate temperature-controlled environments with optical and electrical subsystems in collaboration with Device Engineering

Define automation requirements to improve test station productivity and repeatability, pushing continuous improvement and efficiencies to our systems and processes

Communicate across an interdisciplinary team with varying levels of quantum expertise to translate complex problems to actionable tasks

Define and align acceptance criteria for test stations and methods to be adopted in the test and assembly flow with the Test and Device Engineering teams

Execute cryogenic tests and generate scripts to analyze results, troubleshooting, diagnosing, to meet chip measurement goals

Characterize test station performance and repeatability

PhD or Master’s degree in physics, applied physics, materials science, electrical engineering, or other relevant discipline

3+ years of hands-on experience with photonic or quantum devices

Knowledge of and hands-on-experience with integrated photonics and optics

Experience developing automated test and data acquisition scripts (e.g., Python)

Ability to translate research-style experiments into scalable, repeatable engineering processes