Senior/Staff Manufacturing Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Asia.

📋 Description

• Maintain production testing operations for SPP Silicon Photonics products (LIP, Burn-In, ECL test flows) at the Taipei supplier, ensuring stable throughput, yield, and quality; manage the daily technical interactions with supplier engineering, addressing test issues through root cause analysis and corrective measures (30%).

• Oversee and enhance production metrics – yield, throughput, retest rate, and cycle time; spearhead SPC implementation and continuous improvement projects; manage hold-lot disposition for production-line quality incidents and lead customer-return RMA (20%).

• Promote automation and process standardization – transform current manual, tribal-knowledge processes (pick-and-place packaging, optical alignment, light coupling) into documented, automated, and scalable production methods; create and sustain test-procedure documentation (X/Y/Z stage calibration, laser-path tuning, recipe management) and release it into Semtech AgilePLM (20%).

• Assist in fulfilling customer test-data needs – ensuring test data integrity, e-data delivery, and shipment quality; collaborate with Semtech IT and customer counterparts on automated test-data transmission and API integration into customer systems (15%).

• Aid in test capacity ramp planning, including the qualification of new test equipment (BI, LIP, ECL, gain test); provide regular updates on ongoing initiatives to the internal management team and key customers (15%).

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, Optical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.

• Over 5 years of experience in test engineering, including at least 2 years in Silicon Photonics, optoelectronic device, or laser diode testing.

• Practical experience with LIV/LIP testing, burn-in, and optical characterization equipment (Optical Spectrum Analyzer, photodetector, Source Measure Unit).

• Comprehensive understanding of semiconductor production test principles: yield monitoring, SPC, root cause analysis, and hold-lot disposition.

• Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken, for collaboration with Semtech HQ and global clients.

• Experience working with OSATs or contract manufacturers in a production support capacity.

• Familiarity with optical alignment, manual probing, and laser characterization techniques.

• Knowledge of optical transceiver components and architectures (TIA, CDR, GainChip, EML, DML, coherent modules).

• Self-driven and capable of working independently with minimal supervision while managing multiple projects.

• Proactive individual who operates efficiently in a transition or acquisition setting with incomplete documentation.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach.

• Professionalism and maturity in customer-facing technical communication.

• Able to balance hands-on technical tasks with cross-functional coordination.

• Team-oriented with the ability to mentor and train others.

🏝️ Benefits

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