Member of Technical Staff – Silicon Photonics Integration

• Own integration architecture for coherent transmission products from component and PIC/EIC interfaces through the optical engine, module, and system

• Translate capacity, reach, optical performance, power, thermal, form-factor, cost, reliability, and manufacturability goals into specifications and acceptance criteria

• Lead design tradeoffs across SiPh PICs, coherent DSP/ASICs, drivers and TIAs, lasers, passive optics, electrical interfaces, package/interconnect, PCB, thermal/mechanical design, and embedded control

• Establish interface control, tolerance budgets, and design-review closure across disciplines

• Develop link budgets, impairment and margin stacks, calibration/monitoring strategies, and predictive models

• Lead bring-up, characterization, DVT, reliability qualification, correlation, and root-cause investigations at device, assembly, module, and system levels

• Partner with product, program, manufacturing, test, quality, reliability, firmware, sourcing, foundry, OSAT, contract-manufacturing, and supplier teams

• Manage technical risks and deliver DFM/DFT, production calibration, yield learning, cost, schedule, and volume-ramp objectives

• Shape coherent and silicon-photonics technology roadmaps and evaluate emerging architectures and suppliers

• Support standards, customer, and partner engagements; generate and protect intellectual property

• Mentor engineers through rigorous, data-based technical decision making

• Work in office and engineering laboratory environments using computers and optical/electronic test equipment

• Collaborate with global engineering, product, manufacturing, supplier, and customer teams

• Travel for supplier, manufacturing, customer, or program activities and provide schedule flexibility during bring-up, qualification, issue resolution, and production ramp

Requirements

• Master's or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, Optics, Applied Physics, or a closely related field;
  Ph.D. preferred
• A bachelor's degree with substantial directly relevant experience may be considered
• Typically 15+ years of relevant industry experience
• Significant technical leadership in optical communication systems and silicon-photonics or photonic-integrated-circuit product development
• Demonstrated delivery of complex optical hardware through architecture, detailed design, prototype bring-up, design verification, qualification, manufacturing transfer, and volume ramp
• Experience with coherent optical products such as 400ZR/800ZR, coherent plug gables, digital coherent optics, transponders, or comparable high-speed transmission platforms strongly preferred
• Proven success leading matrixed, cross-functional technical teams
• Deep knowledge of coherent transmitter/receiver architecture, modulation and detection, optical link budgets, OSNR, dispersion, polarization effects, nonlinearities, and DSP/hardware impairment interactions
• Hands-on knowledge of SiPh PIC characterization and integration with EICs, lasers, fiber attach and optical coupling, advanced package/interconnect technologies, and high-speed electrical interfaces
• Strong system-level understanding of RF design, signal and power integrity, thermal/mechanical constraints, control/monitor functions, and optical/electrical calibration
• Ability to create and use analytical and simulation models, structured experiments, statistical data analysis, and automated characterization
• Working knowledge of DFM, DFT, reliability physics, qualification methods, configuration/change control, failure analysis, production test, and quality systems
• Demonstrated judgment in requirements decomposition, interface management, architecture trade studies, technical risk management, and design-review leadership
• Ability to work effectively across global teams and time zones
• Ability to travel up to approximately 15%
• Ability to follow site EHS procedures and Coherent Corp. Corporate EHS standards
• Ability to wear required PPE and occasionally lift or move equipment, fixtures, or materials weighing up to 20 pounds

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive expertise in optical communication systems and silicon-photonics product development, with a strong focus on coherent optical…