Sr, Process Development Engineer

Summary:

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 90+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customer’s most pressing business issues. We make equipment, software, and systems that help to plan, deploy, certify, monitor, and optimize all kinds of networks - like those for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses and data centers. VIAVI is also a leader in high performance thin film optical coatings and engineered diffusers, providing light management solutions to anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, automotive, defense and instrumentation markets.
We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected – at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are fierce about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Position Details: 

This individual will be responsible for engineering support relating to the manufacture of optical thin film coatings.  The person in this position is the technical interface with the production floor staff working as a critical part of the manufacturing team.  This person will also be part of the technical interface team with customers and product design teams at Viavi Solutions to identify requirements, establish specifications and respond to inquiries pertaining to optical filters.  As such this person will establish systemic solutions and processes to improve process yields, product quality, engineering efficiency and process consistency.

This person will have the opportunity to work with more senior engineering staff to apply their knowledge and skills to support production in meeting customer specifications, expectations and on time delivery.

Position Duties:

• Work closely with the customer and Application Engineering during the quotation, preparation for manufacturing, and production phases of a product

• Interface with production personnel to provide manufacturing guidance and problem solving.

• Provide technical ownership of vacuum coating platform, including overall tool performance in yield, cycle time, readiness for production, areas for improvement, and capability.

• Transfer new products from development to volume manufacturing.

• Identify opportunities for and drive continuous improvement activities in manufacturing.

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

Education/Experience/Knowledge Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Engineering, Physics or other related technical discipline.

• Three to five years of experience in manufacturing setting.

• Understanding of design and evaluation of optical coatings preferred.

• Knowledgeable in Metrology techniques and equipment desired

• Ability to work under pressure and dealing with demanding customers.

• Knowledge of fundamental engineering concepts, statistical process control and problem solving techniques. 

• Excellent communication skills and ability to interface with internal as well as external customers.

• Proficiency in Statistical Process Control

• Bias for action.

VIAVI Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer – minorities/females/veterans/persons with disabilities.

Job Posting Pay Range:

81,060

to

150,540