Electrical Hardware Design & Test Engineer
About the job
- A Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering is required.
- Five to eight years of industry experience in electronics test or design is required.
- Hands-on experience with electronics bring-up, debugging, and hardware testing is required.
- Experience with test automation using Python or a similar scripting language is required.
- Strong lab skills using power supplies, oscilloscopes, multimeters, waveform generators, electronic loads, and logic analyzers are required.
- Soldering skills, including work with small components down to 0402, are required.
- Experience with Altium Designer for schematic design and layout is required; schematic and layout experience is preferred within this qualification.
- Familiarity with embedded systems and hardware/software integration is required.
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills, along with technical communication and documentation skills, are required.
- Design, build, and program custom electrical test stations for ASICs, circuit boards, and other subsystems.
- Evaluate, select, and procure test equipment with third-party vendors, including custom fixtures, sockets, and wafer probers.
- Integrate test equipment with custom electronics and software to create custom test protocols.
- Design research and development, production-test, and product circuit boards, including architecture block diagrams, component selection, schematic design, PCB layout, and management of fabrication and assembly.
- Perform board bring-up and verification of new hardware.
- Debug hardware using standard bench equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, and electronic loads.
- Identify root causes of hardware failures and drive corrective actions with cross-functional teams.
- Develop and execute validation plans for prototypes and production test systems.
- Participate in FMEA/FMECA analysis and create engineering and manufacturing documentation.
- Work closely with ASIC, firmware, FPGA, photonics, and mechanical engineering teams.
- Help establish scalable electrical test methodologies as products mature.
- Partner directly with OSATs to develop, deploy, debug, and optimize electrical test solutions, fixtures, and methodologies supporting semiconductor validation, qualification, and production ramp.
- Experience with semiconductor or ASIC test systems, including wafer probers, is preferred.
- Partnership or engagement with OSATs is preferred.
- Experience designing custom test fixtures or automated validation systems is preferred.
- FMEA/FMECA or other reliability engineering experience is preferred.
About the company
nEye Systems designs programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) that implement high-radix optical circuit switching on a silicon chip. Their main product is a programmable optical switch built on silicon photonics, enabling high-capacity, low-power data paths for AI, ML, and other data-intensive workloads. The system uses a PIC-based switch fabric that can be configured to route optical signals through many channels, reducing electrical power needs and easing network scaling in data centers. Compared with competitors, nEye focuses on integrating high-radix, programmable optical switching directly on silicon wafers to deliver scalable, energy-efficient networking for AI infrastructure, leveraging MEMS photonics and silicon photonics techniques. The company aims to make data center networks more power-efficient and scalable to meet rising demands from AI and ML workloads.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Series C
Total Funding
$152.5M
Headquarters
Berkeley, California
Founded
2020
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- nEye raised $80 million on April 14, 2026, reaching $152 million total capital.
- The company says production samples and pilot deployments target 2026 hyperscaler data centers.
- Open roles on neye.ai/join-us signal manufacturing, product, and engineering expansion.
What critics are saying
- Lumentum and Marvell demoed OCS integration at OFC 2026, compressing nEye's commercialization window.
- Google, Microsoft, and hyperscalers can standardize internal optics, eliminating nEye as a supplier.
- Any 2026 fab qualification slip delays revenue, burns $152 million, and invites consolidation.
What makes nEye unique
- nEye's OCS-on-a-chip fuses silicon photonics, MEMS, and CMOS into one wafer-scale chip.
- April 14, 2026 Series C from Sutter Hill, CapitalG, and M12 validates strategic demand.
- Its 128x128 target matrices beat bulky discrete switch architectures on footprint and power.
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- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Gym Membership
- Stock Options
- Company Equity