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Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Thoroughly review new product designs from the architectural definition stage and collaborate closely with lead RF and optical designers, suppliers, mechanical designers, process engineers to identify potential risks and mitigation plans to prevent product failures.

• Assess field risks associated w/ new product platforms, components, assembly challenges, and system architectures to define, prioritize, track, and validate reliability improvements throughout the NPI process
• Develop new methodologies early in NPI to analyze reliability estimates, applying a combination of known and unknown industry standard approaches, field statistics, and component data.
• Formulate a product validation strategy to confirm product stability and robustness while balancing any customer/business constraints, ensuring compliance to rigorous quality and reliability criteria set by Coherent and our customers.
• Define the qualification plan, tests, resource, execute, and monitor progress of the qualification program, including leverage of internal, external, and offshore locations for test infrastructure and data analysis. 
• Collaborate closely with supplier and NPI teams, providing critical technical data throughout all phases of product development and steep production ramp.
• Analyze aging data to establish lifetime and random failure estimates and present the reliability assessments and qualification status to key customers throughout the co-development process.
• Provide regular reliability updates to customers, presenting product risk assessments based on technical justifications

Travel to suppliers and factories will be required to build relationships and best assess process risk, scalability challenges, and manufacturing readiness.

Education & Experience

• M.S. or higher in Engineering or related field

Minimum 15 years of experience in the telecom or datacom industry at the transceiver, system, or subassembly level

Skills

• Optical and electrical performance in transceivers, switches, data centers, etc.  Extensive knowledge of materials, adhesives, interconnects, packaging technology, advanced photonics devices. 
• Technical understanding of optical and electrical test measurements.  Experience with reliability statistics, physics of failure, and failure analysis methodologies.  Ability to leverage a wide variety of reliability approaches to establish the most reasonable estimates with many unknowns and lack of data. 
• Ability to synthesize complex situations into communications which deliver key points understandable by the team and decision-makers.  Escalate issues to drive actions/decisions to ensure success.
• Professional, respectful, honest communication.  Logical, data-based reasoning for conclusions and recommendations. Insightful and creative solutions.
• Willingness to work off-core-hours on occasion to provide more effective communication and collaboration with Asia reliability labs.

Working Conditions

• Office Environment
• Occasional Lab Environment for testing, inspection, failure analysis

Physical Requirements

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Safety Requirements

All employees are required to follow the site EHS procedures and Coherent Corp. Corporate EHS standards.

Quality and Environmental Responsibilities

Depending on location, this position may be responsible for the execution and maintenance of the ISO 9000, 9001, 14001 and/or other applicable standards that may apply to the relevant roles and responsibilities within the Quality Management System and Environmental Management System.

Culture Commitment

Ensure adherence to company's values (ICARE) in all aspects of your position at Coherent Corp.:

Integrity - Create an Environment of Trust

Collaboration - Innovate Through the Sharing of Ideas

Accountability - Own the Process and the Outcome

Respect - Recognize the Value in Everyone

Enthusiasm - Find a Sense of Purpose in Work

Coherent Corp. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Coherent is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials and networking components. We are a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent provides a comprehensive career development platform within an environment that challenges employees to perform at their best, while rewarding excellence and hard-work through a competitive compensation program. It's an exciting opportunity to work for a company that offers stability, longevity and growth. Come Join Us!
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