Nvidia Senior Photonics Test Engineer 

United States, California 

712620215

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead Photonics test development for NVIDIA’s next generation Silicon Photonics products and platforms.

• Responsible for defining test methodologies, test flow and parameters, designing and developing photonics test equipment and running various photonics test flows on the equipment.

• Work closely with test integration vendors to install, enhance and qualify Photonics Test equipment across multiple labs and manufacturing sites.

• Partner with internal design, fabrication, and packaging multi-functional teams to establish new test requirements, test flows, aid in designing different test structures, exchange data, and spearhead new Photonics testing processes.

• Drive our fabrication, assembly, substrate, and test vendors and partners.

• Drive continuous improvement in testing cycle time and test quality/reliability.

What we need to see:

• Degree in Optics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics or related fields with equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of optical testing and/or optical packaging experience.

• Strong background & experience in Silicon Photonics design, fabrication, test, packaging and assembly.

• Hands-on experience in carrying out Photonics testing at wafer or chip-scale, building and qualifying Photonics test equipment and analyzing test data.

• Strong statistical analysis skills – ability to use data visualization techniques to deliver test data analysis and optimizing test techniques.

• Understanding of quality control, statistical process control and DOE techniques.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Experience in Silicon Photonics device design or fabrication, including familiarity with photonics test structure design.

• Solid understanding of AutoCad, Zemax or other opto-mechanical software tools.