Reliability/Test Engineer

Summary:

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 100+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customers’ 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:

• Provide DFT direction to R&D at the concept stage of new product development.

• Test development and ongoing continuous improvement for the test solutions on the Lab & Production product portfolio.

• Design, develop, and influence the various automated production systems required to implement the product test strategy.

• Devise the overall manufacturing and service and configuration strategy for new products and optimize manufacturing & service calibration and test.

• Detailed project planning to ensure that all production systems are developed, debugged, and validated in time for production pilot run.

• Partner with R&D and manufacturing engineering to develop contract manufacturing ready and reliable test systems, jigs & fixturing.

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

• Master's (or Bachelor's with 3-years' experience) of Science in Optical Engineering, Physics and/or Electrical Engineering.

• Minimum 4 years’ experience developing automated tests, both hardware and software.

• Knowledge of high-speed digital test equipment is beneficial.

• LabWindows CVI programming experience, LabVIEW.

• Experience with National Instruments TestStand would be beneficial.

• Experienced in a structured programming language (such as C / C++).

• Python or other scripting-based programming experience.

• SQL database programming experience for test record and data management.

• Demonstrated project planning/management skills.

• Process improvement and data analysis – knowledge of Lean principles or equivalent experience. 

• Must be a self-starter, strong team player and demonstrate leadership skills and able to work in an international environment.

• Fluent English & German.

• Ability to travel up to 10%.

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