Photonics Design Engineer, Senior/Principal

Company Overview:
MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication, and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 65 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs, and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. See our site to view our facilities. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives, and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Job Title: Photonics Design Engineer, Senior / Principal
Position Overview:
The Photonics Design Engineer, Senior/Principal will utilize in depth knowledge to develop, design, maintain, or improve optoelectronic modules, subsystems, or products, for Commercial, Aerospace & Defence applications. Will demonstrate conceptual and practical expertise in analog photonic design challenges and basic knowledge of related disciplines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of photonic subsystems, such as photonic link products, optical receivers and transmitters and related components, photonic signal process technologies and delay lines. Products include analog RF fiber optic links, high-speed digital fiber optic transceivers and fiber optic amplifiers. Products utilize microprocessors and firmware.
• Possess deep experience developing and manufacturing products for Aerospace and Defense customers including harsh environments.
• Stay abreast of technological advances in photonics and introduce new technologies that can improve performance and lower costs.
• Analyze fiber-optic links, system performance or operational requirements.
• Conduct research on new photonics technologies utilizing advanced engineering designs. Requires specialized depth and/or knowledge or expertise in the design, drafting, test, and release of new products, devices, circuits, and/or subsystems.
• Be responsible for all design activities and related product development activities from design reviews, design verification, and qualification. Write test and assembly plans and procedures.
• Provide clear status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing test data.
• Expert in formal stage-gate new product introduction process.
• Awareness of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.
• Impact a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams, acts as resource for colleagues.
• Work with our Product Engineering group to