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MEMS Characterization Engineer
Accepting applicationsLumicity · San Francisco Bay Area
Full-Time Mid_senior ASICATECadenceFPGAI2C
Posted
1d ago
Category
Design
Experience
Mid_senior
Country
United States
Small team building a new analog-physical device and the custom silicon that reads and drives it. This role owns lab bring-up: get the module and the chip talking, measure what the hardware is actually doing, and turn those measurements into a repeatable test flow.
Not a transistor-design seat. You will work next to the analog IC designer. You do not have to design the readout chip. You do have to understand it well enough to bring it up and debug charge injection, offset drift, and noise.
What you will do
Own characterization and debug of MEMS / sensor-array hardware plus the companion readout or driver IC
Measure device behavior on the bench (C-V, I-V, actuation / threshold, noise, parasitics, failure modes)
Bring up silicon over I2C / SPI / I3C or equivalent
Automate the rack (Python, LabVIEW, C#, FPGA/MCU — whatever you already use)
Root-cause system issues with the IC and device teams and feed them real data
Required
Hands-on characterization of MEMS, inertial, acoustic, optical, or similar sensor devices
Working knowledge of ROIC / AFE / ASIC interfaces — enough to drive and debug, not necessarily to design
Test automation you have written yourself
Probe station, SMU, LCR, or equivalent bench measurement experience
Comfort owning work in a small hardware team
Strong plus
InvenSense / TDK, FLIR, TI DLP, Menlo, Knowles, Apple or Google sensor hardware
MEMS microphones, gyros, scanning mirrors, microbolometers, capacitive arrays
PCB / FPC bring-up
Packaging, parasitics, or closed-loop control of a variable capacitive load
Not this role
Cadence-only analog design
Production ATE / wafer-sort test software
Foundry process or program management
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Not a transistor-design seat. You will work next to the analog IC designer. You do not have to design the readout chip. You do have to understand it well enough to bring it up and debug charge injection, offset drift, and noise.
What you will do
Own characterization and debug of MEMS / sensor-array hardware plus the companion readout or driver IC
Measure device behavior on the bench (C-V, I-V, actuation / threshold, noise, parasitics, failure modes)
Bring up silicon over I2C / SPI / I3C or equivalent
Automate the rack (Python, LabVIEW, C#, FPGA/MCU — whatever you already use)
Root-cause system issues with the IC and device teams and feed them real data
Required
Hands-on characterization of MEMS, inertial, acoustic, optical, or similar sensor devices
Working knowledge of ROIC / AFE / ASIC interfaces — enough to drive and debug, not necessarily to design
Test automation you have written yourself
Probe station, SMU, LCR, or equivalent bench measurement experience
Comfort owning work in a small hardware team
Strong plus
InvenSense / TDK, FLIR, TI DLP, Menlo, Knowles, Apple or Google sensor hardware
MEMS microphones, gyros, scanning mirrors, microbolometers, capacitive arrays
PCB / FPC bring-up
Packaging, parasitics, or closed-loop control of a variable capacitive load
Not this role
Cadence-only analog design
Production ATE / wafer-sort test software
Foundry process or program management
Show more Show less