Lead Laser Component Reliability Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, design, and execute reliability test plans for fiber-coupled multi-emitter pump modules and semiconductor laser diodes
• Conduct and analyze accelerated lifetime, burn-in, stress, and qualification testing
• Apply statistical methods to evaluate lifetime, degradation, failure rates, and confidence intervals
• Identify key reliability drivers and sensitivities in design and processes
• Investigate failure mechanisms and perform root-cause analysis of device degradation
• Prepare clear reliability reports and data-driven technical recommendations

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree with 3-6+ years of relevant experience, or PhD with 3+ years of industrial experience, in one of the following fields (Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or Materials Science)
• Strong background in reliability engineering for optoelectronic devices, semiconductor devices, photonic components, or laser diodes
• Deep understanding of statistics and lifetime data analysis, including Weibull modeling, Kaplan–Meier methods, log-normal modeling, probability distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and uncertainty analysis, etc.
• Strong experience with design of experiments and statistical test planning
• Experience with accelerated life testing and degradation modeling
• Ability to analyze reliability data using tools such as Python, R, or equivalent statistical software

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of optoelectronic packaging and material/interface reliability
• Experience with failure analysis techniques (SEM, FIB, EDX, microscopy)
• Ability to work cross-functionally and communicate complex technical results