Manufacturing Process Engineer

The role

You will turn optical interconnect technology for co-packaged optics into scalable, manufacturable, and reliable hardware. You will work with the development team in London to establish manufacturing processes and transfer them to partners.

What you will do

• Establish and qualify robust, high-throughput, high-yield manufacturing lines
• Work with manufacturing partners to support qualification and volume ramp
• Specify, commission and qualify production equipment
• Develop new and improved manufacturing processes
• Drive continuous improvement in throughput and yield
• Improve process capability through statistical process control
• Represent OLIX to management, engineering and production teams at partner sites
• Collaborate across R&D, Process Engineering, Equipment Engineering, Characterisation & Test and Production
• Contribute to strategic IP development and patents
• Ensure compliance with site and factory protocols and safety regulations

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Chemistry or a related field
• Experience with process development in high-volume, high-technology manufacturing including New Product Introduction (NPI) and scaling to volume
• Experience working in controlled or cleanroom environments
• Proven track record of designing DoEs and executing structured experiments
• Experience applying statistical process control, yield improvement and throughput optimisation in production
• Ability to interpret complex experimental data, troubleshoot process issues and drive systematic improvements
• Excellent teamwork, documentation and communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience transferring processes to contract manufacturers or foundries
• Failure analysis experience
• Patent or IP contributions

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Meaningful stock options
• Annual Living-Local Bonus if residence is within 20 minutes of the office
• Employer-contributed retirement plans

Before you apply

• Candidates eligibility to work depends on most recent citizenship or permanent residency status due to U.S. export control regulations
• Generally unable to consider applicants whose most recent citizenship or permanent residence is in certain restricted countries

About the company

OLIX is building the OLIX Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1) to address the infrastructure gap in AI technology. The company focuses on rack-scale co-design of logic, data movement, packaging, optics and interconnect.