Sr. Principal Hardware Engineer
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! Note to recruiters and employment agencies: We will not pay for unsolicited resumes from recruiters and employment agencies unless we have a signed agreement and have required assistance, in writing, for a specific opening.
Requirements
- B.Sc. degree or above in electronics engineering, telecommunication
- 8+ years of board-level or system-level hardware design experience in the telecommunications or embedded systems.
- Proven expertise in high-speed digital circuit design, with hands-on experience developing telecom line cards.
- Strong skills in analog circuit simulation and practical implementation.
- Experience in designing high sensitivity optical signal detection circuits.
- Solid background in FPGA-based control system circuit design, including interface and logic integration.
- Familiar with hardware circuit design tools such as Orcad and Cadence Allegro
- Deep understanding of hardware design and engineering process (PCB and PCBA) and quality control is required
- Strong communication skills and experience working in cross-cultural and global team environments.
- Excellent teamwork, self-motivated and responsible.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with EDFA (Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier), OTDR (Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer), or OCM (Optical Channel Monitor) products is a strong plus.
Responsibilities
- New product development – 70%
- Electrical design throughout feasibility study, solution simulation and verification, schematic creating, BOM management, PCBA bring-up, function verification test including signal integrity check for key signals and generate test report.
- Working with manufacturing team to develop manufacturing electrical functional tests.
- Customer technical support.
- Work with NPI and Test Eng teams to transfer design to manufacture.
- Legacy Sustaining – 20%
- RMA investigations and implementation of corrective actions
- Handle part EOL or part shortage in mass production, suggest alternative part, do verification and ECO to introduction the parts.
- Technical Development – 10%
- Improving product density is a key mandate. To that end:
- Identify technologies to reduce product power consumption
- Identify technologies to reduce required pcba area
- Coach junior hardware engineers
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
