Principal Product Engineer

Join Lightmatter as a Principal Product Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in driving the strategic direction of our hardware portfolio. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize manufacturing flows, improve yield and quality, and reduce costs. Your responsibilities will include managing yield and quality indicators, defining manufacturing and test strategies, and driving continuous improvement in quality, yield, and cost. This position offers a unique opportunity for end-to-end ownership and hands-on leadership in the semiconductor industry.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize manufacturing flows, improve yield and quality, and reduce costs.
• Define manufacturing and test strategies, including DFT implementation, test hardware specs, and test program creation.
• Drive continuous improvement in quality, yield, and cost by reducing test time, eliminating test sockets, closing test holes, and increasing yield through root cause analysis.
• A minimum of 5+ years experience in semiconductor industry as a product engineer, with a cumulative of 12 years of relative industry experience
• Experience developing test plans
• Master’s in Computer Science,Electrical Engineering, Physics, Material Science or a related field
• Familiarity with advanced packaging flows
• Familiarity with ATE Test area equipment and methodology
• Excellent communication skills with ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely
• Experience partnering with OSATs to develop manufacturing test flows for CMOS or Optical transceiver products
• Experience developing DFT strategy
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior company leadership and partner with vendors and customers
• Familiarity with statistical analysis & data acquisition tools such as JMP, Snowflake
• Experience partnering with a OSAT to develop manufacturing test flows for Co-Packaged Optics technology
• Programming or scripting: Python, C, Java, Ruby, SQL, or shell scripting