Senior Optical Product Development Engineer (5634)

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

As an R&D Product Development Engineer, you’ll be responsible for researching, designing, prototyping, testing, qualifying electro-optic circuit pack assemblies and transferring new designs into a production environment. This role will provide production and field support for developed products. Products will include optical amplifiers, line monitoring equipment, command response telemetry equipment, as well as other terminal optical equipment. 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.

Responsibilities

• Participate in product requirement and design reviews.
• Devise and develop new electro-optic modules and optical amplifiers for terminal applications.
• Simulate electro-optic performance using optical modeling tools
• Specify components, negotiate with suppliers and characterize fiber optic components to be used in above-mentioned modules.
• Plan and complete design verification and environmental qualification test regimes as well as write applicable reports.
• Analyze, interpret and present test data that validate optical module performance.
• Create manufacturing test requirements and transfer newly designed modules from R&D to manufacturing.
• Support manufacturing and provide 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.