Coherent Corp. · 1 day ago
Lead Reliability Engineer
Fremont, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$101K/yr - $172K/yr
15+ years expCoherent Corp. is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials, and networking components. They are seeking a Lead Reliability Engineer to review new product designs and collaborate with various teams to identify risks and implement reliability improvements throughout the NPI process.
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Responsibilities
Thoroughly review new product designs from the architectural definition stage and collaborate closely with lead RF and optical designers, suppliers, mechanical designers, process engineers to identify potential risks and mitigation plans to prevent product failures
Assess field risks associated w/ new product platforms, components, assembly challenges, and system architectures to define, prioritize, track, and validate reliability improvements throughout the NPI process
Formulate a product validation strategy to confirm product stability and robustness while balancing any customer/business constraints, ensuring compliance to rigorous quality and reliability criteria set by Coherent and our customers
Define the qualification plan, tests, resource, execute, and monitor progress of the qualification program, including leverage of internal, external, and offshore locations for test infrastructure and data analysis
Collaborate closely with supplier and NPI teams, providing critical technical data throughout all phases of product development and steep production ramp
Analyze aging data to establish lifetime and random failure estimates and present the reliability assessments and qualification status to key customers throughout the co-development process
Travel to suppliers and factories will be required to build relationships and best assess process risk, scalability challenges, and manufacturing readiness
Qualification
Required
M.S. or higher in Engineering or related field
Minimum 15 years of experience in the telecom or datacom industry at the transceiver, system, or subassembly level
Optical and electrical performance in transceivers, switches, data centers, etc. Extensive knowledge of materials, adhesives, interconnects, packaging technology, advanced photonics devices
Technical understanding of optical and electrical test measurements. Experience with reliability statistics, physics of failure, and failure analysis methodologies
Ability to synthesize complex situations into communications which deliver key points understandable by the team and decision-makers. Escalate issues to drive actions/decisions to ensure success
Professional, respectful, honest communication. Logical, data-based reasoning for conclusions and recommendations. Insightful and creative solutions
Willingness to work off-core-hours on occasion to provide more effective communication and collaboration with Asia reliability labs
Benefits
Competitive compensation program
Comprehensive career development platform
Company
Coherent Corp.
Coherent empowers market innovators to define the future through breakthrough technologies, from materials to systems.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$3.44BKey Investors
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2025-09-26Post Ipo Debt· $3.03B
2021-05-07Post Ipo Equity· $410M
1987-10-09IPO
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CFO and Treasurer
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Chief Strategy Officer & President Materials Segment
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