Senior Principal Optical Design Engineer

Coherent Corp.Fremont, CA
$127,875 - $223,813Onsite

About The Position

Coherent is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials and networking components. We are a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent provides a comprehensive career development platform within an environment that challenges employees to perform at their best, while rewarding excellence and hard-work through a competitive compensation program. It's an exciting opportunity to work for a company that offers stability, longevity and growth. Come Join Us! As a core member of the design team, the candidate will be responsible for optical modeling and parameter optimizing, simulating and calculating related optical tolerances as the guideline to other design aspects. Communicate with suppliers and CM/SDE to build components, respond to feedbacks and DFM from them. The candidate should have an overall view of advanced technologies and proactively develop the sense to design the most suitable technical route for project needs. Coordinate with internal teams including Process, Testing, and Automation to review and respond to their DFM items, optimize design, and establish appropriate assembly and test workflows. The candidate should have good experience in making high manufacturability designs to achieve good projected production yields. Responsible for and support the failure analysis on components and final products from an optical aspect. Candidates should have a wide range of technical knowledge, not only within the job function but in other fields that can be used to solve problems. Responsible for training new optical engineers and peer review optical design.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of related experience in optical transceiver electrical design.
  • Or Master’s degree with 5 years; or a PhD with 3 years experience.
  • Capable of expressing in English with accuracy and efficiency, for both written and oral.
  • Proficiency with optics ray tracing software such as Zemax.

Nice To Haves

  • Familiarity with fiber optic transceivers and CPO/NPO modules a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Optical modeling and parameters optimizing, simulate and calculate the related optical tolerances as the guideline to other design aspects.
  • Communicate with suppliers and CM/SDE to build components, respond to feedbacks and DFM from them.
  • Coordinate with internal team include Process, Testing, Automation to review and response to their DFM items, optimize design and establish appropriate assembly and test workflow.
  • Responsible for and support the failure analysis on the components and final products from optical aspect of view.
  • Responsible for training new optical engineers and peer review optical design.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation program
  • Comprehensive career development platform
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