Summary
The Electrical Test Engineer is responsible for testing, debugging, and supporting the development of high-speed optical transceivers (800G to 1.6Tbps). This role supports AOI’s optoelectronics manufacturing operations teams by identifying and analyzing root causes of performance issues to ensure product quality, reliability, and compliance with high-speed communication standards.
Job Duties
- Perform design verification and testing of high-speed optical transceivers (800G to 1.6Tbps) to ensure performance and reliability.
- Install and maintain optical transceiver testing equipment, including PPG/ED, DCA, CDR, etc.
- Set up and conduct optical transceiver communication link tests in compliance with MSA/IEEE standards.
- Debug and troubleshoot link failure and work with cross-functional teams to figure out root causes.
- Develop and revise transceiver automatic testing software using LabView/Python for data collection and test efficiency.
- Document reports for various optical transceiver qualification tests.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Optical engineering with 2+ years of experience or Master's degree with 1+ year of experience
- Must be bilingual in Chinese (Mandarin)
- Familiarity with Linux, Python and LabVIEW are preferred
- 3 years of experience working in an engineering laboratory environment
- Experience with optical transceiver communication link test
Location
This position will be on-site based in Sugar Land, Texas.
WHY AOI?
In addition to competitive salary, AOI offers
- Flexible and competitive health (medical, dental, vision) plans offer the employee with the right options to meet individual and family needs
- Employer matching on 401(k) deferrals
- Generous PTO policy, with unused PTO payout at end of the year
- Relocation package available within US
- Immigration sponsorships (Must be currently authorized to work in the US)
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Optical Engineering with 2+ years of experience, or Master's degree with 1+ year of experience
- Bilingual proficiency in Chinese Mandarin
- Three years of experience working in an engineering laboratory environment
- Experience with optical transceiver communication link testing
- Familiarity with Linux
- Familiarity with Python
- Familiarity with LabVIEW
What We Do
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. | NASDAQ: AAOI AOI is a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber optic networking products. We primarily serve three growing end-markets: cable television broadband, fiber-to-the-home, and internet data centers. We are vertically integrated with a product portfolio from laser chips, components, sub-assemblies and modules, to complete turn-key equipment. All three of our end-markets are driven by bandwidth demand fueled by the growth of network connected devices, such as video traffic, cloud computing and online social networking. To address this increased demand, CATV and telecommunications service providers are investing to improve their networks in competition to deliver voice, video, and data services to their subscribers. Rising bandwidth consumption is also driving demand for higher speed server connections in the internet data center market. As a result of these trends, fiber optic networking technology has become fundamental in all three of our target markets to meet these needs. Our vertical integration, broad product lines, and in-house design capability uniquely position AOI to serve these markets and offer us the flexibility to address tomorrow's fiber optic applications. To learn more about our company and products, we invite you to visit our website. Website www.ao-inc.com Facebook tinyurl.com/ycxcsbwx Instagram tinyurl.com/rqsbpk5 Twitter tinyurl.com/rd6dtvn
