Principal Optical Engineer - Light Sources
$158,600–$237,600 year
On-site · Irvine, California, United States or Santa Clara, California, United States
Job Summary
Principal Optical Engineer – Light Sources: Drive end-to-end development of Celestial external light source technology from concept to volume manufacturing; provide full life-cycle support of light sources including initial design selection, development, procurement, full characterization, reliability qualification, and production release. Act as main point of contact with vendors to enable milestones and resolve performance/yield/supply issues. Collaborate cross-functionally with systems, packaging, firmware, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams to deliver production-ready solutions. Contribute to development of other external optical components and fiber sub-assemblies used in Celestial products.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields OR Master’s degree and/or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields with 5-10 years of experience
- Strong experience with semiconductor DFB laser diodes
- Clear grasp of laser physics and fundamentals
- Experience with laser assembly and packaging techniques for data-center environments
- Vendor engagements for component procurement
- Experience running reliability assessment and qualification programs for optical components and lasers
- Experience designing and working with fiber-optic and integrated-optics components and assemblies
- Knowledge of standard manufacturing processes for integrating external components into Silicon photonics/integrated-optics products
- Experience setting up test stations for laser characterization and familiarity with standard test equipment (OSAs, reflectometers, PWMs)
- Experience with free-space design software (Zemax, Code-V)
- Ability to collect and analyze large datasets (e.g. JMP, DataConductor)
- Familiarity with Silicon Photonics systems is a plus
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