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JOB PURPOSE:
1. Reliability engineering, reliability evaluation, physics-of-failure study, and formal qualification of InP and SiP chips/PICs
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
2. Assessment/evaluation of semiconductor and optical component ageing characteristics, failure modes & associated risks.
3. Customer interfacing on reliability documentation and reliability work based on solid knowledge of physics-of-failures.
4. Working closely with) product and quality teams to conduct root cause investigation and reliability analysis of field returns
5. Definition and implementation of optical component qualification programmes.
6. Problem solving, test engineering, testing and statistical data analysis.
KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
7. Assessment of reliability risks and the rapid verification of product reliability to the satisfaction of both internal and external customers.
8. Close working collaboration with chip R&D, wafer fabrication manufacturing and quality teams.
REPORTS:
9. Report to Chip Reliability Manager
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:
Education/Qualification - Minimum:
10. PhD in physics, electronic engineering, material science or similar related discipline. Strong academic background is essential.
Skills/Competencies Essential:
11. Experience in opto-electronic component reliability and qualification (to Telcordia and JEDEC standards)
12. Reliability/qualification programme definition, planning, and implementation.
13. Hands-on experience on accelerated life testing and life-prediction of opto-electronic devices .
14. Reliability modeling/statistical data analysis. Experience with statistical software package: Reliasoft/Weibull++, JMP, Minitab.
15. Test engineering.
16. FTA, FMEA and root cause analysis
17. Hands-on experience in using FIB-SEM, TEM and EDS
18. Excellent report writing and presentation skills, able to robustly defend data analysis and conclusions (experience in Journal papers publications and conference presentation).
19. Candidates with early experience from universities or research institutes, as well as those with short- or long-term industry experience, will be considered and offered roles appropriate to their level. I am particularly interested in engineers with experience in reliability studies related to semiconductor devices
Skills/Competencies Desirable:
20. Opto-electronic component, design, performance, processing and operation.
21. Previous experience with customer communications on matters of reliability and qualification is beneficial.
22. Previous experience on mentoring junior colleagues is desirable.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
23. Good interpersonal and project management skills.
24. Willing & able to pro-actively engage with other groups within the company both verbally and via written communication.
25. Ability to travel worldwide to visit customers to discuss reliability work.
26. Self-motivated, energetic, able to work to deadlines.
27. The flexibility to cope with rapidly changing objectives.
Office is based in a rural location in Towcester, Northamptonshire and is not supported by public transport.
Commutable from: Northampton, Milton Keynes, Towcester, Rugby, Banbury, Coventry, Kettering, Bedford, Silverstone, Buckingham, Brackley
Keywords: Reliability analysis, Failure investigation, Physics-of-failure, statistical analysis, FMEA, Electron Microscope, FIB-SEM, TEM, Photonic integrated circuits (PICs), Detector, Receiver, Engineering, R&D, manufacturing, NPI, Wafer, optoelectronics, semiconductor technology, physics, electronics, photonics, telecommunications, III-V-semiconductor wafers, InP optical components, laser design.
EXCELLENT SALARY & BENEFITS:
We offer a competitive salary and provide company benefits such as:
28. Competitive Salary
29. 25 Holiday + bank holiday, Private Medical, Pension, Health Cash Plan, Training & Development with great career progression, plus much more.
About Lumentum:
Lumentum Holdings Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and laser applications worldwide. Its segments include Cloud & Networking and Industrial Tech. The Cloud & Networking segment products include a comprehensive portfolio of optical and photonic components, modules, and subsystems supplied to cloud and communications network operators and network equipment manufacturers building cloud data center infrastructure, including products for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and data center interconnect (DCI) applications, and communications service provider networks, including products for access (local), metro (intracity), long-haul (city-to-city and worldwide), and submarine (undersea) network infrastructure. The Industrial Tech segment products include solid-state lasers, kilowatt-class fiber lasers, diode lasers, ultrafast lasers, and gas lasers, which address applications in numerous end-markets.
Equal opportunities:
Lumentum is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified.