Staff Electrical Optical Test Development Engineer

Non-CA Pay Range (Annual):

$121,000.00 - $224,600.00

At Infinera, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. Your actual base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role may be eligible for equity grants, discretionary bonuses, or commission payments. The amount of these incentives is based on the terms of the Company’s incentive plans, the Company’s financial performance, and/or individual employee job performance.

Infinera also offers paid leave, medical, 

dental, and vision coverage, 401(k),

life, and disability insurance to

eligible employees.

St. Electro-Optical Test Development Engineer
Allentown, PA, USA
Full-Time
Essential Functions / Key Responsibilities 
•    Participate in the software, hardware, and test plan development for calibrating and measuring performance of Infinera’s coherent pluggable products based on Photonics Integrated Circuits (PIC)s
•    Be familiar with optical communication basics and be able to identify characterizations of optical transceivers that may impact performance of optical signals. 
•    Define and configure required test instrumentation and hardware
•    Partner with product team to author, debug, and refine novel, efficient optical calibration sequences to drive capability and performance of the optical transceiver module.
•    Co-develop with firmware, DSP teams on feature introduction
•    Develop software to fully automate the test execution
•    Partner with engineering staff to define and implement detailed testability requirements
•    Provide fault isolation and identification capability to the design and manufacturing technical staff
•    Help drive end to end test yield improvements and test time reduction efforts
Education / Experience
•    MS in science or engineering required, PhD desired (Physics, Optics, Electrical Eng)
•    Previous experience in developing test and measurement solutions for electrical and optical components or subsystems is beneficial
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
•    Proficient in writing scalable software a requirement.
•    Experience with object oriented languages required.   VB.Net exposure is a plus.
•    Familiarity with quadrature amplitude modulation theory is a requirement
•    Experience with testing and characterizing photonic circuits containing I/Q modulators and demodulators
•    Hands on experience with optical and electrical test and measurement equipment including programmable optical power meters, attenuators, and switches, optical spectrum analyzers, digital multi-meters and oscilloscopes
•    Experience with Serdes, electrical RF testing, and FEC operation are all pluses
•    Attention to detail and willingness to produce detailed test plan documentation
•    Experience with digital and mixed signal IC testing is beneficial

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