Description:
This role is centered on management of strategic design for reliability, qualification testing, and ensuring the long-term reliability of cutting-edge optoelectronic and silicon photonic components and subassemblies within a highly complex and fast-paced R&D and manufacturing environment.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Planning and managing component-level qualifications, including GR-468 and customer-specific reliability testing for laser chips, photodetectors, and other photonic devices.
- Collaborating across functions—Product Design, Product Engineering, Manufacturing, and both internal and external suppliers and customers—to ensure new products meet Coherent’s high standards for quality and reliability.
- Driving reliability strategies from early design through production, ensuring robust performance and compliance with industry and customer requirements.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Design for Reliability (DFR)
- Participate in architectural design reviews and collaborate with R&D on new product development in InP and Silicon Photonic ICs
- Provide reliability input using DFMEA and Design for Reliability (DfR) methodologies.
- Apply expertise in materials science, fabrication processes, and environmental stress failure modes.
- Engage with design teams to assess reliability risks and integration readiness.
Qualification & Testing
- Develop and manage qualification plans (e.g., GR-468, customer-specific).
- Coordinate qualification programs, analyze data, and generate lifetime models.
- Oversee life testing under stress conditions (temperature, humidity, thermal cycling) and perform electrical/optical testing.
Data Analysis & Reporting
- Conduct statistical and reliability analysis (e.g., FIT rate calculations, confidence intervals).
- Prepare and present reliability reports to internal teams and customers.
- Serve as the primary contact for reliability prediction models and customer documentation.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with Product Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and external partners.
- Assess the impact of component issues on higher-level assemblies.
Education & Experience
- Doctorate degree in Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in reliability engineering, preferably in optoelectronics and Silicon Photonics.
- Strong knowledge of reliability testing standards (e.g., GR-468), statistical analysis, and failure mechanisms.
- Experience with PICs, laser chips, photodetectors, and transceiver modules is highly desirable.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Skills
- Strong foundation in reliability engineering, including DFMEA, Design for Reliability (DfR), and lifetime modeling.
- Deep understanding of materials science, semiconductor physics, and photonic device fabrication.
- Experience with qualification standards such as GR-468, and customer-specific reliability protocols.
- Proficiency in statistical analysis tools (e.g., JMP, Minitab, Python, MATLAB) for reliability data interpretation.
- Hands-on experience with environmental stress testing (e.g., HTOL, HAST, TC, THB) and optical/electrical testing.
- Familiarity with photonic integrated circuits (PICs), lasers, modulators, photodetectors, and transceiver modules.
- Ability to interpret failure analysis results and link failure modes to process or design root causes.
- Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration and customer-facing technical discussions.
- Experience working with external vendors and contract manufacturers on component reliability.
- Knowledge of reliability prediction models and FIT rate estimation.
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, high-complexity R&D environment.
- Understanding of quality, health, safety, and environmental regulations relevant to optoelectronic manufacturing.