Silicon Photonics and Subassemblies Test Technician - Military Veterans

Meet the Team:

Acacia is a Cisco company that takes pride in providing and fostering a collaborative environment to ensure success and personal growth. You will work with other Acacia quality and reliability technical team members to conduct reliability tests, analyze data, and collaborate on understanding product performance and reliability through DFR analysis. Our small team of reliability engineers and technical leaders significantly impacted product release and qualification and improved product design through reliability testing while working in an agile and efficient environment where every member respects each other's talents and personhood.




Your Impact:

• Qualification and reliability contractor is responsible for the execution of qualification and reliability testing of Acacia products under the direction of a reliability engineer.
• You will perform reliability testing using the existing test platforms, fixturing, software.
• You will assist in validating and reporting test data associated with Reliability Testing for novel photonic packages and die. You will assist in the development and building of new test platforms.
• You will develop your knowledge and experience in Optics design, manufacturing, testing, and reliability as you assist in test development. You will also investigate failures and work closely with Design and Process Development teams to determine failure root causes and implement reliability improvements.
• You will closely work with design, engineering, and manufacturing in component/vendor failure analysis to drive corrective action and qualification.
• You will assist in the failure analysis.
• You will assist in lab maintenance activities.

Minimum qualifications

• BS in Optical/Electronic Engineering, Physics, or Materials Science or related discipline or 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience working with optical fiber devices
• Experience in soldering.

Preferred qualifications

• Willingness to learn and interest in quality and reliability engineering for optical communications components and systems
• Familiarity with development of custom test racks and software to drive qualification testing
• Willingness to learn about Design for Reliability and Physics of Failure Analysis techniques and models, Telcordia and JEDEC qualification and reliability standards related to module assemblies and associated components, e.g. die, passives, optical components, capacitors, diodes,
• Physical and electrical characterization techniques
• Knowledge of programming languages/software such as Python, Matlab, and Labview desirable

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