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# Photonics Test Development Engineer

- **Company:** Acceler8 Talent
- **Location:** Niwot, CO, United States
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Infrastructure, Python (Programming Language), Systems Development Life Cycle, PIC Microcontroller
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75665642-photonics-test-development-engineer

## About the Role

* Personally built or substantially developed PIC test stations
 * Hands-on fiber-to-chip coupling and optical-alignment experience
 * Automated motion stages and laboratory instruments
 * Written Python code for test control, data acquisition and analysis
 * Characterized devices at die, wafer or packaged-device level
 * Worked across optical and electrical measurements
 * Diagnosed measurement stability and repeatability problems
 * Taken ownership of test infrastructure rather than only operating established equipment/

This is an opportunity to build a critical engineering capability from the ground up and own the test feedback loop connecting photonic design, fabrication and system development.

## Description

They are hiring a Photonics Test Development Engineer to build and own the company's optical and electro-optical characterization capability.

This is not a generic optics or validation position. You'll personally develop the fiber-coupled test stations, automation and data infrastructure needed to characterize photonic integrated circuits and improve subsequent device generations.

You'll work on problems such as:

 * Building automated fiber-coupled PIC characterization stations
 * Developing repeatable fiber-to-chip alignment methods
 * Automating positioning stages and laboratory instruments
 * Writing Python software for control, acquisition and analysis
 * Characterizing passive and active integrated photonic devices
 * Measuring loss, coupling efficiency, bandwidth and polarization response
 * Improving calibration, repeatability and test throughput
 * Diagnosing optical, electrical and alignment-related problems
 * Developing test methods for new device operating environments
 * Feeding characterization results back into design and fabrication.