Director, Reliability Engineering — Programmable Optics

Lumotive; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision

PTO plus 14 paid company holidays

401K with 3% contribution

Stock Options

Life insurance and disability

Job summary

Lumotive in Australia is seeking a Director of Reliability Engineering to own reliability end-to-end for the LCM device. You will translate customer mission profiles into qualification plans, design aggressive, well-controlled studies, and lead the reliability function from theory to production. You will present data to customers and coordinate with design, materials, and process teams to ensure robust lifetime performance.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in semiconductor or optoelectronic reliability, failure analysis, or quality engineering, including leading a reliability function, team, or major qualification program.
• Proven track record taking a new technology from prototype through qualification into volume production.
• Experience owning qualification at component and module/system level.
• Experience translating customer mission profiles into qualification plans and lifetime requirements.
• Experience running split-lot DOEs with wafer fabs or materials vendors to improve intrinsic reliability.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability pipeline end to end — from fundamental failure-mechanism studies through component, module, and system qualification, to the data package delivered for customer sign-off.
• Own customer mission profiles and translate them into qualification plans with cross-functional teams.
• Run qualification surgically with carefully designed studies and controlled execution.
• Uncover unknown failure modes and maintain a living map of mechanisms across chip, package, and module.
• Build lifetime models and defend assumptions under customer scrutiny.
• Drive Design for Reliability and Design for Test reviews and correlate reliability outcomes to process and materials.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Strong communication

Experimental design discipline

Statistical fluency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, materials science, or related fields

Master’s or PhD in electrical engineering, physics, materials science, or related fields is preferred

Tools

JEDEC standards (JEDEC Q100/Q102)

AEC-Q100/Q102

ISO standards

Job description

Lumotive in Australia is seeking a Director of Reliability Engineering to own reliability end-to-end for the LCM device. You will translate customer mission profiles into qualification plans, design aggressive, well-controlled studies, and lead the reliability function from theory to production. You will present data to customers and coordinate with design, materials, and process teams to ensure robust lifetime performance.