Lead Photonics System Engineer

🕒 April 14

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $105.1k - $189.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Jabil

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1966

🤝 B2B

B2B • Manufacturing • Sustainability

Jabil is a leading business-to-business (B2B) company providing engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and design services. With over 50 years of experience, Jabil partners with some of the world's top brands to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. The company operates over 100 locations globally, emphasizing sustainability and community involvement as part of its core values. Jabil is committed to supporting its workforce with diverse and inclusive opportunities and fostering professional growth and innovation. The company is recognized globally for its excellence and commitment to minimizing environmental impact while building vibrant communities.

📋 Description

• Provide product subject matter expertise to support manufacturing line bringup and NPI activities for CPO systems in Jabil’s factories, in particular focusing on process design, yield analysis, and root-causing of failure modes to drive yield improvement • Develop test strategy, quality control gates, and rework flows with the test engineering and industrial engineering teams to establish process control, early fault detection, and effective rework flows • Define yield, throughput, and parametric-data dashboards (as well as automated data analysis) for implementation with the work cell and data engineering teams to allow SPC implementation and drive systematic yield improvement processes • Participate in client interactions to funnel in specs, requirements required for system CPO system design • Support product design phase with DFM and FMEA guidance • Train and provide technical guidance to factory product engineers through manufacturing NPI and volume ramp phases • Maintain an ongoing engagement with the factory operations and engineering teams to continuously drive process and yield improvements, provide engineering support as required for tackling manufacturing issues • Keep abreast of new technologies pertaining to the co-packaged-optics systems with a focus on photonics packaging, fiber-optic connectivity, test and metrology methods and equipment • Evaluate and qualify new offerings in area of fiber-optic connectivity (such as blind-mate connectors, shuffle cables, various supporting tooling) to support design activities as well as tool adoption on factory floor • Perform other duties and responsibilities as required.

🎯 Requirements

• Relevant 4-year Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics or a similar field is required • 6+ years of photonics communication system (optical engine / transceiver / switch box / networking rack) development or product engineering in the datacom / telecom industry is required • Possesses deep expertise in optical communication links, associated component / module specs and test methods in R&D and manufacturing for defect detection • Capable of hands-on setting up of DC/RF electro-optical testbenches, including basic test automation coding in Python or similar • Highly detail oriented, highly organized & methodical thinker • Able to tackle engineering challenges and devise structured R&D programs for process development • Independent, action-oriented, entrepreneurial, and with high sense of product ownership • Advantage to experience working with manufacturing partners / in-house manufacturing of optical communication systems • Advantage to product-engineering experience in NPI and volume manufacturing ramp phases of optical communication components / modules / systems. • Strong preference to advanced degrees in electrical engineering or applied physics.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans • Paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment • 4 weeks of paid parental leave • 11 company-paid holidays (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays) in 2026 • 401(k) retirement plan • Employee stock purchase plan