Senior Optical Test Engineer

The Opportunity...

Do you enjoy solving technical puzzles?

Do you have optical products development and process automation skills?

Do you communicate well with others and act as a team player?

If so, we want you on our team!

This full-time position as a Senior Optical Test Engineer is an opportunity to work in a leading high technology telecommunications company, with a multidisciplinary team that develops a broad range of optical telecommunication products, including next-generation WSS and OCM modules, Amplifier modules, Circuit Packs, ROADMs, SDN White boxes and many other advanced photonic products.

In this role, you will be responsible for

• Designing and implementing optical test and verification strategies for internal customers, to bring leading-edge products from initial design and NPI stages to volume manufacturing.
• Preparing design verification test plan, executing the test cases and summarizing results to a technical report to either internal or external customers.
• Collaborating with engineers in the R&D, Manufacturing, and Quality teams, to help meet or exceed the product requirements.
• Designing and developing advanced testing methods to address emerging applications.
• Delivering robust, well-documented, scalable optical tests and completed verification and validation on the targeted products using agile development methodologies.
• Sharing best practices, influencing, and supporting other engineering teams with optical development activities related to process and test automation.
• Programming automated testing software.

What you will bring to the position...

• A Master in the following disciplines : Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, or a related field.
• 3+ years Automation Programming experience with VB.NET, C# or C++
• Strong reasoning, troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with ability to drive solutions through cross-functional teams in a rapid-pace environment.
• Experience with electrical and optical test and measurement equipment.
• Knowledge of optical components and systems.

Advantageous for the position...

• Experience of design and / or test on optical components and subsystems of optical communications.
• Experience of test automation to interact with device under test and test equipment.
• Familiarity with tools for Agile software development (e.g., Jira), source control (SVN, Git), and peer code review.
• Worked with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), such as Camstar.
• Interaction with Manufacturing teams, in either a primary or support role.
• Understanding of Lean and Six-Sigma concepts and statistics, such as OEE, SPC, GR&R.
• Device test automation, data gathering and statistical analysis.

As a global, multi-cultural company driven by innovation, we are building a diverse and inclusive culture where differences are valued.

We are unified in our commitment to live our Values : Care, Trust, Own, Discover, and Deliver . Our differences make us stronger, more creative, and capable of delivering better results.