Senior Silicon Photonics Reliability Engineer

About the role

Intel's Silicon Photonics Quality & Reliability team is seeking a Senior Silicon Photonics Reliability Engineer to drive reliability strategy, qualification, and technology development for advanced photonic devices and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs). In this role, you will partner closely with technology development, process integration, design, manufacturing, and quality teams to assess, improve, and certify the reliability of silicon photonics technologies and products. You will play a key role in identifying reliability risks, developing qualification methodologies, resolving complex technical challenges, and ensuring successful transitions from technology development to high-volume manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Assess and characterize the intrinsic and extrinsic reliability of photonic devices, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), lasers, and integrated optical products.
• Develop reliability models and acceleration methodologies through Design of Experiments (DOE), statistical analysis, and reliability testing.
• Drive reliability improvements through process, design, and material optimization efforts.
• Develop and implement new reliability characterization techniques, screening methodologies, and quality controls.
• Define reliability, qualification, and certification requirements for new silicon photonics technologies and products.
• Lead failure analysis and root cause investigations using data-driven and model-based problem‑solving techniques.
• Evaluate reliability risks and provide recommendations to engineering and business stakeholders.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams to ensure quality and reliability requirements are integrated throughout the technology development lifecycle.
• Support new technology introduction and successful transfer into high‑volume manufacturing environments.
• Analyze large data sets