Reliability Engineer

Lumentum; Northampton; On-site; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in optical and photonic products is seeking a Reliability Engineer in Northampton. The role involves assessing semiconductor reliability, customer interfacing, and collaboration with product teams. Ideal candidates will have a PhD and experience in opto-electronics. Excellent salary and benefits are offered, including private medical and training opportunities.

Benefits

25 Holiday + bank holiday

Private Medical

Pension

Health Cash Plan

Training & Development

Qualifications

• Experience in opto-electronic component reliability and qualification.
• Hands-on experience on accelerated life testing and life-prediction.

Responsibilities

• Assessment of semiconductor and optical component ageing characteristics.
• Customer interfacing on reliability documentation.
• Conduct root cause investigation and reliability analysis.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Risk analysis

Statistical data analysis

Problem solving

Education

PhD in physics, electronic engineering, material science

Tools

Reliasoft

Weibull++

JMP

Minitab

Job description

Lumentum Northampton, England, United Kingdom

Reliability Engineer

Lumentum Northampton, England, United Kingdom

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·Reliability engineering, reliability evaluation, physics-of-failure study, risk analysis and formal qualification of InP and SiP chips/PIC.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

·Assessment/evaluation of semiconductor and optical component ageing characteristics, failure modes & associated risks.

·Customer interfacing on reliability documentation and reliability work based on solid knowledge of physics-of-failures.

·Working closely with) product and quality teams to conduct root cause investigation and reliability analysis of field returns

·Definition and implementation of optical component qualification programmes.

·Problem solving, test engineering, testing and statistical data analysis.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

·Assessment of reliability risks and the rapid verification of product reliability to the satisfaction of both internal and external customers.

·Close working collaboration with chip R&D, wafer fabrication manufacturing and quality teams.

REPORTS:

·Report to Chip Reliability Manager

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:

Education/Qualification - Minimum:

·PhD in physics, electronic engineering, material science or similar related discipline.Strong academic background is essential.

• Experience in opto-electronic component reliability and qualification (to Telcordia and JEDEC standards)
• Reliability/qualification programme definition, planning, and implementation.
• Hands-on experience on accelerated life testing and life-prediction of opto-electronic devices.
• Reliability modeling/statistical data analysis. Experience with statistical software package: Reliasoft/Weibull++, JMP, Minitab.
• FTA, FMEA and root cause analysis
• Hands-on experience in using FIB-SEM, TEM and EDS

·Excellent report writing and presentation skills, able to robustly defend data analysis and conclusions (experience in Journal papers publications and conference presentation).

• Opto-electronic component, design, performance, processing and operation.
• Previous experience with customer communications on matters of reliability and qualification is beneficial.
• Previous experience on mentoring junior colleagues is desirable.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

·Good interpersonal and project management skills.

·Willing & able to pro-actively engage with other groups within the company both verbally and via written communication.

·Ability to travel worldwide to visit customers to discuss reliability work.

·Self-motivated, energetic, able to work to deadlines.

• The flexibility to cope with rapidly changing objectives.

Office is based in a rural location in Towcester, Northamptonshire and is not supported by public transport.

Commutable from: Northampton, Milton Keynes, Towcester, Rugby, Banbury, Coventry, Kettering, Bedford, Silverstone, Buckingham, Brackley

Keywords: Reliability analysis, Failure investigation, Physics-of-failure,statistical analysis, FMEA, Electron Microscope, FIB-SEM, TEM, Photonic integrated circuits (PICs), Detector, Receiver, Engineering, R&D, manufacturing, NPI, Wafer, optoelectronics, semiconductor technology, physics, electronics, photonics, telecommunications, III-V-semiconductor wafers, InP optical components, laser design.

EXCELLENT SALARY & BENEFITS:

We offer a competitive salary and provide company benefits such as:

·25 Holiday + bank holiday, Private Medical, Pension, Health Cash Plan, Training & Development with great career progression, plus much more.

About Lumentum:

Lumentum Holdings Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and laser applications worldwide. Its segments include Cloud & Networking and Industrial Tech. The Cloud & Networking segment products include a comprehensive portfolio of optical and photonic components, modules, and subsystems supplied to cloud and communications network operators and network equipment manufacturers building cloud data center infrastructure, including products for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and data center interconnect (DCI) applications, and communications service provider networks, including products for access (local), metro (intracity), long-haul (city-to-city and worldwide), and submarine (undersea) network infrastructure. The Industrial Tech segment products include solid-state lasers, kilowatt-class fiber lasers, diode lasers, ultrafast lasers, and gas lasers, which address applications in numerous end-markets.

Equal opportunities:

Lumentum is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified.

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