Optical Test Engineer

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Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum’s commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. Fsor more information, visit www.lumentum.com.

Lumentum currently has an opening for an Optical Test Engineer to develop test platforms and characterize and test very high speed electro-optical devices for both R&D use as well as for manufacturing. This position will be primarily responsible for test infrastructure development and design verification testing on novel electro-optic devices.

Our ideal candidate is ambitious, self-directed, independent, and adept in the lab. Of particular importance to us are the ability and desire to learn, and the drive to work very hard with similarly motivated people.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop test method and setup for high speed electro-optical devices
• Understand product specifications and create test plans for EVT.
• Perform electro-optical device characterization, EVT , test data analysis, and failure analysis.
• Develop automated test tools and lab environment for efficient and reliable data collection.
• Support the adaptation of test stations from the design verification environment to high-volume manufacturing test platforms.
• Close loop with RD team to achieve a better design

Key Qualifications

• 2 year+ industry / academic experience with component characterization.
• Undergraduate degree in physics, electrical engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with high-speed characterization tools/methods and optical testing.
• Ability to analyze measurement data to extract key device performance features.
• Experience with automation software languages (Python, VB.Net, Matlab, Labview or others)
• Proficient working with large datasets and statistical analysis tools.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
   

Desired Qualifications

• Graduate degree in physics, electrical engineering, or a related field.
• Fluency with programming for test automation.
• 3+ years of experience with component test and evaluation.
• Communication link testing including BER measurements.
• Hands-on experience with coherent communication system and link testing.