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Sr. Engineer, Photonics Module Reliability

Ayar Labs
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/25/2025
Senior Engineer - Photonics Module Reliability

Location: San Jose (on-site required)

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Photonics Module Reliability Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving reliability testing across cross-functional teams and executing on these initiatives to enhance the reliability of our semiconductor modules. We are looking for someone with strong planning, analytical, and communication skills to enhance our team.

Key Responsibilities

Reliability Engineering:

  • Develop and execute on-site reliability tests, including accelerated life testing (ALT), highly accelerated life testing (HALT), and environmental stress screening (ESS)
  • Interface with third-party vendors to clearly define and negotiate details of off-site reliability testing
  • Analyze photonics module reliability data to identify failure modes, mechanisms, and root causes
  • Analyze component reliability data to identify potential failure modes as well as gaps to standards such as the Telcordia GR-468
  • Conduct reliability risk assessments and develop mitigation plans
  • Collaborate with design and process engineering teams to implement design and process changes to improve product reliability
  • Utilize statistical analysis techniques to assess product reliability and predicatively model field performance
  • Identify and implement reliability improvement strategies, such as design for reliability (DFR) and design for manufacturability (DFM)

Data Analysis And Reporting

  • Communicate complex technical information to a wide range of audiences, including reliability engineering, design engineering, management, and customers
  • Utilize statistical software to perform data analysis and modeling

Basic Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related field
  • 3 years of experience with optical module reliability testing
  • Experience working with lasers, photodetectors, and optical packaging including identifying their failure mechanisms and solving their reliability challenges
  • Demonstrated initiative in proactively identifying and addressing challenges
  • Proficiency in statistical analysis techniques, including Weibull analysis, accelerated life modeling, and reliability prediction
  • Knowledge of industry standards and specifications, such as JEDEC, MIL-STD, or AEC-Q

Preferred Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related field
  • Experience in Silicon Photonics
  • Experience in setting up laboratory equipment and DOEs
  • Experience with failure analysis techniques, such as SEM, EDX, and FIB
  • Experience with advanced reliability techniques, such as physics-of-failure modeling and accelerated degradation modeling
  • Experience with reliability certification and qualification processes
  • Experience with reliability tools and software, such as JMP, Minitab, or ReliaSoft

Salary range: $160,000-$192,000

Note To Recruiters

Principals only. We are not accepting resumes from recruiters for this position. Remuneration for recruiting activities is only applicable subject to a signed and executed agreement between the parties. Please don’t send candidates to Ayar Labs, and do not contact our managers.

About Ayar Labs

At Ayar Labs we’re about to revolutionize computing by moving data with light. We’re unleashing processing power for artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cloud and telecommunications by removing the bottlenecks created by today’s electrical I/O -- making it possible to continue scaling computing system performance. Ayar Labs is the first to deliver an optical I/O solution that combines in-package optical I/O chiplets and multi-wavelength remote light sources to replace traditional electrical I/O. This silicon photonics-based I/O solution enables chips to communicate with each other from millimeters to kilometers, to deliver orders of magnitude improvements in latency, bandwidth density, and power consumption.

With our strong collaborations with industry leaders and government, our deep ties to MIT and UC Berkeley, and our commitment to hiring the best engineers in photonics and electronics, joining our team gives you the opportunity to collaborate with renowned experts on challenging, paradigm-shifting work.

We are passionate about delivering in-package optical I/O at scale, leveraging the strength of our patent portfolio and our team of leading interdisciplinary experts. We believe that deep cross-collaboration between teams facilitated by honest, open debate is the best way to drive innovation and achieve big wins. Join our team and experience the possibilities.

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Ayar Labs is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is strongly committed to all policies which will afford equal opportunity employment to all qualified persons without regard to age, sex, national origin, race, color, ethnicity, creed, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. It is the policy of Ayar Labs to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. Veterans are more than welcome and encouraged to apply.

Salary : $160,000 - $192,000

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