Lab Automation Engineer

Palo Alto Office Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 18, 2026 Last posted March 18, 2026
Job description

About Voltai
Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.

About the Team

Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents.

About this Role
You’ll design, implement, and maintain the automation infrastructure that powers Voltai’s hardware validation labs. You’ll build systems that automatically test, characterize, and qualify silicon and board-level designs — integrating software, robotics, and data pipelines for continuous validation and improvement.

You might thrive if you have 5+ years of experience in

  • Python, LabVIEW, or test automation frameworks

  • Instrumentation control (SCPI, VISA, PXI, etc.)

  • Data acquisition, measurement analysis, and reporting automation

  • Hardware bring-up, test planning, and failure reproduction

About this role

Summary

Design and maintain automation systems for hardware testing, data analysis, and validation.

Job title

Lab Automation Engineer

Experience level

5+ years

Industry

semiconductors

Location requirements

On-site in Palo Alto, no remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonLabVIEWtest automation frameworksinstrumentation controlSCPIVISAPXIdata acquisitionmeasurement analysis

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

automationtest automationinstrumentation controldata acquisitionhardware experimentation
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Palo Alto, CA, USA

On-site City