Field Application Engineer

Lumentum Operations LLC; Washington; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumentum is seeking a Field Applications Engineer to join a global team of technical experts. You will collaborate with Sales, PLM, Product Development, and key customers to drive design-ins for Cloud Modules and components into datacenters and GPU clusters.

The role requires hands-on engineering with optical modules, strong customer-facing communication, and the ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Qualifications

• Degree in physical sciences, electrical engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum of 3 years engineering experience with coherent optical modules and components.
• Experience in product development and NPI processes.
• Familiar with standards and testing of firmware/hardware.

Responsibilities

• Provide pre-sales technical support for complex products and solutions.
• Deliver technical presentations and product demos to sales teams and customers.
• Collaborate with customers to gather requirements and drive design-in.
• Prepare specifications and design documentation for customer projects.
• Support field deployments and troubleshooting at customer sites.

Skills

Python

Travel willingness

Technical communication

Education

Electrical engineering degree

Physical sciences degree

Tools

CMIS / C-CMIS

Ethernet

Infiniband

Transceiver testing

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! It is an exciting time to join Lumentum! The advent of AI has created a multitude of optical module needs within the AI Ecosystem (Hyperscalers, GPU and AI System providers). Lumentum is uniquely positioned to serve this market. If you like working with Tier 1 customers on cutting edge technology, we have an opportunity for you! Job Description: Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.lumentum.com. Our Cloud & Networking Platform is looking for a Field Applications Engineer (FAE) to join a global team of multi-disciplined technical experts, working alongside Product Line Management, Sales, and R&D to engage customers across our product portfolio, and help develop and drive design-ins. In this role, the FAE will report to the Senior Director of Sales and serve as an integral part of the sales and marketing team, working closely with sales, PLM, Product Development, and key customers and to encourage and support adoption of Lumentum’s Cloud Modules and components into Datacenters and GPU Clusters.

Job Duties:

• Primarily provides pre-sales technical support for the development and implementation of complex products/applications/solutions.
• Uses in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff and the customer through sales presentations and product demonstrations.
• Grows technical relationship with customer.
• Assists the sales staff in assessing potential application of company products to meet customer needs and may prepare detailed product specifications for the development and implementation of customer products/applications/solutions.
• May create detailed design and implementation specifications for complex products/applications/solutions.
• May build a mini application based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping and/or product demo for client.
• May provide consultation to prospective users and/or product capability assessment and validation

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Negotiate technical specifications and performance trade-offs with customers that will satisfy their system and module needs; promoting Lumentum product preferences at targeted customers.
• Participate in customer design reviews and contribute to the technical response to RFI/RFQs.
• Work closely with sales and directly with customers to collect customer’s requirement and application use cases.
• Work directly with targeted customers to bring up transceiver modules at customer sites, troubleshoot customer prototypes, and develop solutions that support end-user applications, resulting in successful design-in of our products.
• Develop and manage primary customer product documentation which can include corrective actions, analysis reports, manufacturing test plans, performance improvement plans and reliability qualification plans and reports.
• Manage Product Change Notification process (PCN) with customers and engineering Participation in critical Failure Analysis, Corrective Action & Lessons Learned activities

ESSENTIAL REQUIRMENTS:

• This individual must be motivated and should enjoy working in an open, rapidly changing, communicative and team-oriented environment.
• A hands-on, "can-do" attitude, a commitment to excellence, plus the ability to anticipate change and try new approaches and create innovative solutions under pressure
• Degree in the physical sciences, electrical engineering or equivalent
• Minimum of 3 years engineering experience designing/developing or testing coherent optical modules and components, preferably active products, and specifically DSPs, receivers, modulators and lasers
• Direct experience in product development and NPI processes with either an optical components/modules company or a system OEM.
• Practical working knowledge of transceiver hardware including both specification and test of firmware/hardware interfaces.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
• Familiarity with device firmware structure & functionality is a strong positive.
• Familiar with standards documents like CMIS, C-CMIS, Ethernet, Infiniband
• Familiar with popular switch/router platforms and ONTs including Arista, Cisco, and Nvidia
• Familiar with Python
• Ability to speak/understand English is required; written skills emphasized

Pay Range:

P80-USA-1 :$149,900.00 - $214,150.00

Disclaimer:

Final base salary for the successful candidate will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job location, where work will be performed, qualifications, work history and relevant experience. With our continual goal of making Lumentum a best place to work for our employees, we strive to offer employees competitive total compensation packages, which may include annual bonus, commission for certain sales roles, equity, and health and welfare benefits.

Lumentum is illuminating the networks of tomorrow with advanced photonic technologies that enable AI, data centers, telecom, industrial, and sensing applications. As AI accelerates the global demand for bandwidth and energy efficiency, we deliver the building blocks that keep data moving reliably, efficiently, and at massive scale. Our optical products support AI and compute infrastructure, cloud and DCI environments, metro and long-haul networks, while our lasers drive breakthroughs in precision manufacturing and sensing. For nearly five decades, Lumentum has been at the intersection of light and innovation. What began as a vision with JDS Uniphase to harness the power of photonics has evolved into a global force driving the communication infrastructure of tomorrow. At Lumentum, we’re building more than a business—we’re building a team of passionate innovators whose drive to collaborate, create, and connect the world fuels everything we do. We are part of the AI technology revolution and we are illuminating the path forward.

Headquartered in San Jose, California, we operate worldwide through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations.