Senior Active Alignment Engineer for Optical Transceivers

Citadel Search; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Citadel Search is seeking an experienced Active Alignment Process Engineer to develop and optimize optical alignment processes for Optical Transceiver manufacturing. You will drive process performance, support NPI projects, and collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure quality and reliability.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in Optical/Electronics/Mechanical Engineering or related field and at least 5 years in optical assembly, precision alignment, or photonics

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in Optical/Electronics/Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 5 years hands-on optical assembly, precision alignment, or photonics manufacturing.
• Experience with optical transceiver manufacturing is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of Active Alignment principles and optical coupling.

Responsibilities

• Develop, qualify, and optimize Active Alignment processes for optical transceiver products.
• Establish and maintain alignment recipes, process parameters, and SOPs.
• Optimize optical coupling performance, process repeatability, and manufacturing throughput (UPH).
• Drive improvements in yield, alignment accuracy, equipment utilization, process stability and cycle time.
• Investigate optical performance failures and resolve manufacturing issues.
• Support NPI projects, engineering builds, and product transfers into mass production.
• Conduct process characterization, capability studies, and DOE experiments.

Skills

Active Alignment

Process development

DOE

Cross-functional teamwork

Optical performance measurements

Education

Optical / Electronics / Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SPC

Job description

Citadel Search is seeking an experienced Active Alignment Process Engineer to develop and optimize optical alignment processes for Optical Transceiver manufacturing. You will drive process performance, support NPI projects, and collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure quality and reliability.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in Optical/Electronics/Mechanical Engineering or related field and at least 5 years in optical assembly, precision alignment, or photonics