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Optical Test Engineer
| Company | Intel |
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| Location | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $186070 – $262680 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Master’s, PhD |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- MS or PhD degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
- 5+ years (if MS) or 2+ years (if Ph.D.) of combined industry experience in developing electro-optic systems.
- Experience with benchtop photonic testing hardware and automation software.
- Experience with photonic testing instruments such as: EXA, OSA, LCA, OBR, oscilloscope, SMF piezo alignment.
- Experience taking an opto-electronic product to market: design, debug and validation.
- Experience with Design Validation Testing and handoff to manufacturing.
- Proficiency with Python.
- Experience with photonic devices: waveguides, couplers, photodetectors, electro-optic modulators, and/or micro-ring resonators.
- Experience with statistical analysis of test data, DOE methods.
Responsibilities
- Develops verification test strategies, test flow methods, and conducts test experiments for various optical and photonic components, devices, and subsystems products.
- Contributes to technical documentation, analyzes test results, performs root cause analysis, and drives corrective measures for mitigation.
- Partners with optical modeling experts to build correlations and understand the difference between measured and simulated performance.
- Conducts assembly, integration, and test of complex optical systems and uses optical test equipment to measure optical performance and alignment.
- Collaborates cross functionally to define testing requirements and methodologies and develops and qualifies tolerance and manufacturability related instrumentation to characterize performance parameters of optical sensing systems and modules.
- Works closely with system, optics, and software engineers to ensure manufacturability, testability, and characterization of optical products and components.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience bringing up custom electronic hardware.
- Experience developing and validating custom component-level tests.
- Familiar with feedback control.
- Strong Python skills for test automation.
- Familiarity with optical transceiver principles, transmission formats, and industry trends.
- Familiar with packaging of electro-optical fiber-optic modules.
- Familiar with databases.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams (firmware, hardware, packaging).
