Field Application Engineer
$149,900–$214,150 year
RemoteSan Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Negotiate technical specifications and performance trade-offs with customers to satisfy system and module needs. Participate in customer design reviews, collect application use cases, and troubleshoot prototypes at customer sites to drive successful design-ins. Build mini applications and rapid prototypes to demonstrate feasibility, while managing product documentation, corrective actions, and PCN processes. Provide consultation for prospective users and validate product capabilities against customer requirements. This role supports the global team of technical experts working alongside Product Line Management and R&D to promote Lumentum's Cloud Modules and components into datacenters and GPU clusters.
Required Qualifications
- Degree in the physical sciences, electrical engineering or equivalent
- Minimum of 3 years engineering experience designing/developing or testing coherent optical modules and components, preferably active products, and specifically DSPs, receivers, modulators and lasers
- Direct experience in product development and NPI processes with either an optical components/modules company or a system OEM
- Practical working knowledge of transceiver hardware including both specification and test of firmware/hardware interfaces
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally
- Ability to speak/understand English is required; written skills emphasized
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with device firmware structure & functionality is a strong positive
- Familiar with standards documents like CMIS, C-CMIS, Ethernet, Infiniband
- Familiar with popular switch/router platforms and ONTs including Arista, Cisco, and Nvidia
- Familiar with Python
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