Senior Optical Design Engineer (6976)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world?

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career.

Position Overview

The Senior Optical Design Engineer is an established and experienced contributor on a team of outstanding engineers that research, develop, design, test, and transfer to manufacture our next generation of high-reliability opto-electronic network elements including monitoring and telemetry terminal equipment, as well as undersea repeaters, branching units and ROADMs. The primary job activity synthesizes novel fiber optic designs based on commercial and custom high reliability fiber optic components. The position relies heavily on knowledge of fiber optic components (including lasers, amplifiers, modulators, OCM, WSS, couplers, filters, WDMS, isolators, Photodiodes, receivers, optical connectors) as well as optics, fiber optics, direct and coherent detection, OTDRs, optical testing methods, reliability, and computer control of devices and instrumentation. The role reports to the Director of Network Element Optical Design.

Responsibilities

• Participates in developing and approving product and system requirements documents
• Participates in product requirement and design reviews.
• Devises and develops new electro-optic modules and optical amplifiers for terminal and undersea applications.
• Simulates electro-optic performance using optical modeling tools
• Specifies components, negotiates with suppliers and characterizes fiber optic components to be used optical designs.
• Plans and completes design verification and environmental qualification test regimes as well as writes applicable reports.
• Analyzes, interprets and presents test data that validates optical module performance.
• Collaborates with electrical engineers and PCBA CAD designers to generate PCBA design files
• Develops GUI based test software tools for testing new circuit boards and components
• Provides firmware requirements and supports integration testing of firmware on new circuit assemblies
• Creates manufacturing test requirements and transfers newly designed modules from R&D to manufacturing.
• Supports manufacturing and provides field support throughout the life of such modules.
• Consistently ensures that business is always conducted with integrity and that behavior aligns with SubCom policies, procedures, and core values of quality, accountability, innovation, and teamwork