Voyant Photonics
Systems Software Engineer, Hardware Validation
$110K–$170K
New York Office (HQ) · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years, or equivalent depth from research, internships, or serious personal projects.
About the job
Owns software releases and hardware-in-the-loop validation for silicon photonics products, debugging issues across software and hardware and integrating products into customer systems.
What you'll do
- Build, verify, version, and ship product bundles, including field updates, release notes, and runbooks.
- Expand hardware-in-the-loop CI across subsystems and products, and investigate and fix bugs at their root cause.
- Integrate products with systems involving time sync, calibration, sensor fusion, OCP, and ROS.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent depth from research, internships, or serious personal projects.
- Strong Python and comfort debugging unfamiliar languages.
- Hands-on hardware experience, including bring-up, reading schematics, and using lab instruments.
- CI/CD experience, ideally against real hardware; proactive communication and documentation.
Nice to have
- Rust, C++ or embedded C; Linux device drivers; System Verilog; HIL rigs and lab automation.
- Fiber optics, datacenter networking, PTP, point clouds, ROS 2, or supporting customer-facing software.
Pay
$110K – $170K USD base salary
Tools
Python, Rust, C++, STM32, Linux, System Verilog, SCPI/VISA, ROS 2
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