# Photonics Module Test Engineer 3

We are seeking a Senior Photonics Module Test Engineer to join our Quantum Photonics Module team. In this role you will be the technical owner for characterization, qualification, and reliability testing of photonic components and modules. You will work closely with architecture and design engineers to design and build test stations, execute rigorous DOE-driven experiments, and perform comprehensive optical measurements including power, phase noise, RIN, and nonlinearity. Spanning EVT, DVT, and PVT phases, you will generate lab-quality data that drives design decisions, accelerates product development, and ensures production readiness. Characterization: Design: Build and operate test setups for photonic components and modules, measuring output power, wavelength, linewidth, phase noise, RIN, optical nonlinearity, and beam parameters (profile, M², divergence) DOE & Experiments: Draft structured DOE test plans, carry out experiments, document results, and deliver clear data analysis and engineering reports. Reliability Testing: Carry out life testing for modules and key components; trend data and deliver reports. Conduct failure analysis under guidance of SME and scientists. Desig

- **Id**: 699026
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/monarchquantum-photonics-module-test-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Diego, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T16:29:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 119
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4080
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Quantum Computing Hardware, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 678365
- **Name**: Monarch Quantum
- **Domain**: monarchquantum.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/monarchquantum>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 37
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 54
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 125000
- **Max**: 175000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 175000

## Technologies

- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 119

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T02:29:19Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.645
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 119
- **Expected fill days**: 54
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 175000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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