Optoelectronic Component Reliability Engineer

Applied-Optoelectronics-Inc.; Sugar Land (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) matching

Generous PTO

Relocation package

Immigration sponsorships

Job summary

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

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Electrical characterization

Reliability testing

Education

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

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

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