CareerPlan

Senior Test Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer, Photonics

Palo Alto, CaliforniaRemoteFull-time$201k–$237k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-09

Core

Own the data pipeline and reliability of systems carrying test results from a fleet of electro-optical test stations into a central data platform.

Role type

Senior IC test infrastructure and reliability engineer (distributed systems)

Builds

Data pipelines, observability dashboards, alerting systems, and shared infrastructure for test stations

Domain

Quantum computing (silicon photonics) + distributed systems infrastructure

Required skills

Python (async/multi-process), distributed systems architecture, observability stack design, SQL, root-cause analysis, incident response

Preferred skills

Lab/manufacturing/hardware test environment experience, on-call rotation experience

Technologies

Grafana, Loki, SQL

Responsibilities

Own data pipeline (measurement uploaders, run creation, linking), build fleet-wide observability (dashboards, logs, metrics), define/maintain alerting guardrails, harden shared infrastructure against failure modes, investigate fleet-wide reliability incidents, partner with data platform and test software teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC