Senior Engineering Technician

Location: Newington

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world?

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - Sub Com has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the Sub Com team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), Sub Com has opportunities to advance your career.

Position Overview The Senior Engineering Technician is a highly experienced hands-on contributor within the R&D organization, supporting the development, characterization, and validation of advanced lightwave telecommunication technologies. This role requires significant expertise in electronics and electro optics, the ability to work independently on complex systems, and the judgment to support early-stage research through advanced prototyping and debugging. The Senior Engineering Technician may also serve as a technical resource and mentor for junior technicians and engineers.

Responsibilities Independently design, builds, modifies, calibrates, maintains electronic and electro optical test sets and instruments for R&D programs.

Works with colleagues, venders, and purchasing staff to procure instruments, adapters, fixtures, optical and electrical equipment/components

Supports development and characterization of lightwave telecom subsystems and modules, including lasers, modulators, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), photodetectors, amplifiers, and high-speed optical transceivers.

Performs advanced optical, electrical, and electro optical measurements, such as:

Optical power, gain spectrum, wavelength stability, and polarization

BER, eye diagrams, jitter, and signal integrity analysis

RF and high-speed electrical characterization

High voltage measurements - leakage current, partial discharge

Operate high voltage powering equipment

Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis efforts for understanding prototype device failures and anomalous test results.

Collaborate closely with R&D engineers to refine designs, test methodologies, and experimental approaches.

Provide hands-on support for board bring-up, system integration, and early product validation.

Develop, document, and improve test procedures, fixtures, and best practices.

Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior technicians.

Maintain laboratory infrastructure, including equipment readiness, calibration tracking, ESD controls, and safety compliance.

Identify opportunities to improve lab efficiency, data quality, and test repeatability.

Contribute practical insights to design reviews based on hands-on lab experience.

Qualifications Associates degree or technical diploma in Electronics Engineering Technology, Photonics, Optics, or a related field5+ years of hands-on experience in an R&D or advanced engineering lab environment.

Experience supporting early-stage research, proof-of-concept builds, or new product introduction (NPI) preferred.

Strong background in analog and digital electronics

Fundamental understanding of optics, circuit board lead and lead-free (RoHS) soldering, electro-mechanical fabrication, electro-optical instruments, and supporting metrology (calibration).Proven ability to independently set up, execute, and interpret complex experiments

Ability to find creative solutions to technical problems when traditional resources are not immediately available

Advanced troubleshooting and…