Development Lead, R&D

VIAVI Solutions•Ottawa, ON

1d•$100,219 - $186,121

About The Position

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions for telecommunications, cloud, enterprises, first responders, military, aerospace, and railway. VIAVI is also a leader in light management technologies for 3D sensing, anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, government and aerospace applications. We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are passionate about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company – to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

Requirements

Degree in Physics, Eng. Physics. Advanced degrees in the same preferred. Degrees in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering will be considered if combined with experience in optics
Proven background in product or systems development.
5+ years of experience in new product development
Experience working with multi-discipline teams in a collaborative environment
Strong written and verbal communications skills.
Proven attention to detail – compliance matrices, technical reports.
Experience providing technical presentations to management.

Responsibilities

Interact with product line management in initial program or product definition – this may be as part of a brainstorming multi-function team.
Co-ordinate front end research programs – prototypes, evaluation, reports
As technical lead for new product development programs: Develop or support the development of requirements, specifications, and test plan.
Create and manage the detailed R&D schedule, provide input to resourcing plan
Interact with the Project Manager to support gate reviews, regular progress updates, and issue escalations
Participate in all technical reviews on owned programs. Possibly lead reviews in area of expertise.
R&D contact prime for operations as the product moves from core development to NPI to full factory deployment in a low cost manufacturing environment (i.e. offshore)
As product familiarity grows, possible design authority role on a product family – this implies: Roadmap input, architecture input
Life cycle R&D point of contact – factory ECO’s, Work instruction change verification, factory escalations, EOL issues
Customer technical issues.