Samtec, Inc Careers

• Collaborate with engineering design team to develop and execute validation plans for optical and opto-electronic components (e.g. lenses, VCSELs, drivers…)
• Work with critical vendors to ensure reliable supply of specified components
• Contribute to developing specific metrology to ensure appropriate incoming inspection of specified components and to maintain quality of our products
• Contribute to product development through Design For Manufacturing and Design For Test
• Join product development teams to ensure that the optoelectronic design is well-documented and has sufficient margin for performance validation, reliability qualification, production ramp, and manufacturing yield.
• Collaborate with Multidisciplinary Engineering teams to develop and Implement control plans and manufacturing tests to ensure production satisfies market needs.
• Partner with production and supply chain teams to transition designs into scalable manufacturing processes, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Own design integrity for product after transition from development to production. Maintain the set of product requirements and design artifacts and coordinate engineering change management post product release.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical challenges related to optoelectronic performance.
• Track engineering orders through product development lifecycle to ensure delivery of new optoelectronic products on schedule and within cost targets

• 10+ Year’s experience in a relevant optics engineering environment with fundamental experience in OE systems and taking OE designs to manufacturing
• Expertise in product lifecycle management processes and tools, including requirements definition and management
• Deep technical expertise in:
  • Optoelectronic design, including optical components such as PINs and VCSELs, fiber optic interfaces and complimentary semiconductor devices.
  • Industry standard manufacturing and assembly processes for OE components, such as epoxy dispense and cure, wirebonding, etc, their operation and common failure modes.
  • Data interpretation of common failure analysis and reliability methods related to optoelectronic components.
• Strong team player able to engage and influence teams from design to operations, contribute to NPD projects to release and address quality/yield issues as they arise.
• Must have excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills and the ability to work effectively with different levels and individuals inside and outside of the organization.
• Demonstratable reasoning skills. Hands-on problem solving with experience in the use of FMEA, SPC, DOE, phase gate processes.
• Experience in Optical modelling software and metrology including but limited to ANSYS (Zemax), Solidworks.
• Experience working in a cleanroom, particularly with ESD sensitive components.
• Working knowledge of optical and opto-electronics design, interpretation of drawings, CTQ and tolerance analysis (GD&T).
• Must be able to handle multiple projects simultaneously as priorities can change quickly.

Education:  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Optics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics or a related field is required. Master’s preferred.