Reliability and Testing Engineer

You will play a key role in the development, testing, and reliability analysis of photonic integrated circuits and plasmonic modulators. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, applying industry standards, and ensuring the optimal performance and reliability of products.

• Cooperate with the development team to monitor and execute reliability validation plans for new photonic integrated circuit products, aligning with product characteristics and customer requirements.
• Develop and automate characterization methods for photonic integrated circuits and plasmonic modulators.
• Plan and conduct industry-standard reliability tests
• Perform accelerated life testing, lifetime prediction analysis, and failure analysis, including identifying failure mechanisms using industry tools.
• Maintain lab and testing equipment, ensuring calibration and proper functionality.
• Perform data analysis for reliability trends
• Execute Design for Reliability (DfR) exercises, including identifying design risks through DFMEA.
• Develop reliability assessment plans for product lifecycle under real-world application conditions.
• Work with other engineers and project leaders on failure analysis during product development and manufacturing.
• Write detailed reliability reports adhering to reliability testing standards.

• Bachelor's degree in quality engineering, material science, reliability engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a similar discipline.
• Experience in a reliability-focused role, specifically in the field of photonics or electrical components.
• Experience with reliability tools, technologies, and methods
• Strong understanding of failure mechanisms, reliability engineering principles, and statistical process control.
• Experience with reliability standards, as well as lifetime prediction methods.
• Familiarity with failure analysis techniques, especially in material science, optical epoxies, lasers, and electrical components.
• Hands-on experience developing automated test SW, with proficiency in Matlab, Python, and/or C.
• Previous experience working in the SAFe framework is a nice-to-have 
  

At Polariton, you'll be part of a pioneering technology leader in photonic integrated circuits, a rapidly growing industry with vast potential that is helping to build the future of technology and communications. While the market is in catch-up mode, Polariton raises the bar and characterizes MZM and IQ to 145 GHz. 

We offer more than just a job—our flexible working schedule allows you to achieve results working with autonomy while contributing to the exciting development of the European photonics sector.

Join a diverse, cross-functional team of experts from different nationalities, where collaboration and innovation thrive. With short decision-making cycles, you'll have the opportunity to influence key decisions and help shape the future of this cutting-edge technology.

Become part of a company that values team-work, curiosity, creativity, and communication.