Optical Manufacturing Automation Engineer

The role

You will develop and scale automation infrastructure for silicon photonics and optical transceiver manufacturing. This role involves designing, deploying, and optimizing automated production systems to improve throughput, yield, and quality.

What you will do

• Develop and implement automation solutions for optical transceiver, silicon photonics, and advanced packaging manufacturing.
• Design, develop, and maintain software applications, automation frameworks, and control systems.
• Integrate manufacturing equipment, optical test systems, robotics, and motion control platforms.
• Partner with engineering teams to automate manual production activities.
• Develop automated workflows for data collection, traceability, process control, and production reporting.
• Create software tools for manufacturing execution, equipment monitoring, yield analysis, and SPC.
• Lead automation efforts supporting new product introduction (NPI).
• Collaborate with quality and engineering teams to implement automated validation and calibration processes.
• Develop dashboards and analytics solutions for manufacturing performance.
• Ensure automation software follows quality management system (QMS) requirements.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Physics, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in manufacturing automation, test automation, or industrial software development.
• Experience supporting optical transceiver, silicon photonics, semiconductor, advanced packaging, or high-volume electronics manufacturing environments.
• Strong software development experience using Python, C#, C++, LabVIEW, or similar languages.
• Experience developing software interfaces for manufacturing equipment, automated test systems, robotics, motion control platforms, and production hardware.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing automation architectures, industrial communication protocols, and equipment integration methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with manufacturing data systems, database development, and production analytics using SQL, NoSQL, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience implementing automated data collection, process monitoring, statistical process control (SPC), yield analysis, and reporting solutions.
• Familiarity with manufacturing execution systems (MES), ERP systems, factory automation platforms, and production traceability requirements.
• Experience with source code management and software lifecycle processes using GitHub, Bitbucket, SVN, or similar version control tools.
• Strong understanding of software quality practices including validation, regression testing, release management, bug tracking, and change control.
• Experience supporting new product introduction (NPI), manufacturing scale-up, and production ramp activities.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of optical manufacturing processes, transceiver assembly, silicon photonics production, automated optical alignment, calibration systems, or high-speed optical testing

About the company

Lumilens develops next-generation silicon photonics and optical transceiver products.