currentPosition: Test Strategy Lead / System Level Test Engineer
Position Summary:
Join Salience Labs as a Test Strategy Lead/ System Level Test Engineer, where you will be a key player in transforming our photonic switching technology into operational AI networks. This position demands a blend of technical depth, organizational skills, and a strong ability to drive automation and process improvements. Your role involves designing and implementing test strategies, building and maintaining complex setups, automating test sequences, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure test outputs align with system-level performance requirements. You will also be responsible for identifying and mitigating risks, optimising existing processes, and collaborating closely with the photonics, electronics, firmware, and product teams to ensure seamless integration and alignment with system requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement system-level test strategies, ensuring comprehensive coverage and data-driven decision making
- Build and maintain complex optical and electronic measurement setups with a focus on stability, repeatability, and safety
- Automate test sequences and data capture pipelines to streamline workflows and accelerate learning cycles
- Develop and communicate a clear view of test readiness, critical paths, and parallelisable work
- Create plans, timelines, and prioritization frameworks that reflect real engineering constraints
- Optimize existing test processes by identifying wasted effort, anticipating failure modes, and preparing setups ahead of hardware arrivals
- Collaborate closely with teams to ensure test outputs align with system-level performance requirements for high-bandwidth, low-latency switching
- Drive a culture of disciplined execution with a clear understanding of the commercial end goal
- Shape and lead the function with competence, judgement, and reliability, even before formal line management is introduced
Qualifications:
- Strong experience working hands-on in lab environments involving complex optical, photonic, or mixed signal electronic setups
- Demonstrable ability to build, debug, and optimize measurement systems, and automate test workflows
- Comfortable operating in environments where test coverage, data quality, and repeatability underpin every decision
- Ability to plan rigorously, track progress, think in parallel, and flag risks early
- Background in photonics, optics, MEMS, mixed signal electronics, semiconductor test, or high-speed transceiver validation
- Experience with automated test frameworks, scripting for test automation, and data analysis tooling
- Fluency in Python (NumPy) and familiarity with VISA/SCPI protocols essential
- Strong organizational capability, able to set expectations, anticipate bottlenecks, and maintain momentum across multiple teams
- Based in the UK or willing to relocate, with consistent presence required in the Oxford lab
We are excited to have the opportunity to discuss how you can shape the core test capability of a deep tech company redefining photonic switching for AI infrastructure. If you are driven by turning complex hardware behavior into clear signals, structured plans, and meaningful progress, we would be honored to hear from you.
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