Reliability Engineer

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Lumentum Canada was awarded the 2022 National Capital Region’s Top Employers for the 6th consecutive year and the 2022 Career Directory Canada’s Best Employers for Recent Graduates for the 5th consecutive year.
 

We are seeking a Reliability Engineer to join the Lumentum team in Ottawa. The Reliability Engineer is responsible for the qualification of leading edge optical and photonic telecommunication products to various international and customer standards. This is an opportunity to contribute to the development of products that are deployed in virtually every telecommunication system in the world. 

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Work with cross-functional product development teams to ensure product reliability and durability exceeds customer requirements, industry standards, and market expectations.
• Define, Plan, schedule, and oversee qualification and reliability testing on raw materials, sub-components, and finished products. Work with a team of test engineers and technicians to ensure testing is completed on time.
• Predict failure rate and availability for new products.
• Apply engineering judgement to select appropriate tests, measurement parameters, and acceptance criteria to align with field conditions and target lifetime.
• Analyze data and report on findings. Identify issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Monitor and report on the field reliability of deployed products. Compare with predictions.
• Perform reliability risk assessments for quality excursions. Apply physics of failure, acceleration modeling, experimentation, etc.
• Work with external labs to coordinate and perform third-party testing (e.g., NEBs, EMI/EMC, Electrical Safety, and LASER Safety). This will require limited travel to set-up and operate equipment.

Requirements

• Interest in how things work, how things fail, why things fail, and how they can be improved.
• Able to scrutinize and interpret literature, reports, and data in order to provide meaningful recommendations.
• Knowledge of statistics.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to operate effectively in highly technical and multi project environment.
• Comfortable discussing issues with higher management and customers.
• Graduation from an BSc. or MSc. program in electrical engineering, optical engineering, physics, etc.

Advantageous for the position

• Previous work experience in a reliability, product qualification, failure analysis, design engineering, process engineering, or compliance function.
• Knowledge of electronics, optics and optical communication systems.
• Knowledge of electronic and optical manufacturing processes.
• Knowledge of electrical and optical components (e.g., ICs, FPGAs, Interconnects, LASERs, Optical Detectors, Switches, WSS, MEMs, LCOS, etc.)
• Familiarity with optical and electrical measurement equipment.
• Knowledge of IEC, JEDEC, and Telcordia Qualification Standards.
• ASQ CRE, Six Sigma
• Knowledge of Weibull++, BlockSim, Jump.