Component Reliability Engineer

Applied-Optoelectronics-Inc.; Sugar Land (TX); Presencial; USD 110.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health plans

401(k) matching

Generous PTO

Relocation package

Immigration sponsorships

Descripción de la vacante

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. in Sugar Land, TX is seeking a Component Reliability Engineer to qualify and improve reliability of optoelectronic semiconductor components.

You will plan, execute and analyze component-level reliability tests, review device parameters, and drive root-cause investigations. The role collaborates with R&D, Product and Yield Engineering, Quality, Test, and Data teams to connect reliability trends with process history and failure mechanisms, and prepares qualification

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, physics, materials science, reliability engineering or related field.
• Three+ years of semiconductor/optoelectronic/component reliability experience.
• Strong knowledge of electrical characterization and component-level testing.
• Experience interpreting reliability failure signatures and planning analyses.
• Understanding of semiconductor device physics and failure mechanisms.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and execute reliability qualification and monitoring plans for components in optoelectronic devices.
• Plan and analyze tests: burn-in, HTOL, accelerated life, temperature cycling, humidity, mechanical, ESD.
• Define stress conditions, sample sizes, measurements, and pass/fail criteria.
• Analyze operating electrical/optical parameters and degradation trends through tests.
• Monitor parameter shifts and identify early failures and wear-out behavior.
• Perform Weibull, lognormal, Arrhenius and other reliability analyses; prepare reports.
• Lead investigations by defining failure signatures and guiding root-cause analyses.
• Collaborate with failure analysis teams to correlate electrical/optical results with process history.

Conocimientos

Electrical characterization

Reliability testing

Educación

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor's in Physics

Bachelor's in Materials Science

Bachelor's in Reliability Engineering

Master's in Electrical Engineering/Physics/Materials Science/Reliability Engineering

Herramientas

Python

SQL

Descripción del empleo

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AOI) is seeking a Component Reliability Engineer to support the qualification and reliability improvement of optoelectronic semiconductor components at its Sugar Land facility.

This position will plan, execute, monitor, and analyze component-level reliability testing for semiconductor lasers and related optoelectronic devices. The engineer will evaluate electrical and optical performance before, during, and after reliability stress, identify degradation trends and failure signatures, and assess product lifetime and reliability risk.

The engineer will work closely with R&D, Product Engineering, Yield Engineering, Quality, Test Engineering, Equipment Engineering, and Data Engineers, to connect reliability behavior with fab process history and physical failure mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute component-level reliability qualification and monitoring plans based on product requirements, industry standards, and customer-specific requirements.
• Plan and analyze reliability tests such as burn-in, HTOL, accelerated life testing, temperature cycling, thermal storage, humidity testing, mechanical testing, and electrostatic-discharge testing, as applicable.
• Define stress conditions, sample sizes, read points, electrical and optical measurements, and pass/fail criteria.
• Analyze device characteristics such as operating voltage, current, series resistance, threshold current, optical power, slope efficiency, wavelength, spectral performance, and other product-specific parameters.
• Monitor parameter shifts and degradation rates before, during, and after reliability stress.
• Identify early failures, wear-out behavior, abnormal populations, and reliability outliers.
• Perform statistical reliability analysis using Weibull, lognormal, Arrhenius, acceleration-factor, lifetime-projection, confidence-interval, and distribution-analysis methods.
• Prepare qualification reports, customer reliability summaries, risk assessments, and technical presentations.
• Lead component-level reliability investigations by defining failure signatures, selecting representative samples, and establishing the technical questions for physical failure analysis.
• Partner with the failure analysis team to develop targeted root-cause analysis plans based on electrical, optical, and reliability results.
• Maintain reliability test records, failure classifications, investigation conclusions, and traceability to physical failure-analysis results.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Three or more years of experience in semiconductor, optoelectronic, photonic, or electronic-component reliability.
• Strong knowledge of electrical characterization and component-level reliability testing.
• Experience interpreting reliability failure signatures and developing technically sound failure-analysis plans.
• Understanding of semiconductor device physics, degradation mechanisms, and the relationship between electrical behavior and physical defects.

Preferred

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with InP, GaAs, semiconductor lasers, photodetectors, or other optoelectronic components.
• Working knowledge of Python, SQL, or other tools for reliability-data reduction, automation, and visualization.

Location

This position will be on-site based in Sugar Land, Texas.

Why AOI?

In addition to competitive salary, AOI offers

• Flexible and competitive health (medical, dental, vision) plans offer the employee with the right options to meet individual and family needs
• Employer matching on 401(k) deferrals
• Generous PTO policy, with unused PTO payout at end of the year
• Relocation package available within US
• Immigration sponsorships (Must be currently authorized to work in the US)