Summary
AOI is seeking a Manager of Optical Module & Device Integration. This role will build and lead an engineering team and work with R&D, manufacturing, quality, and reliability teams to improve product performance, support new product introduction, and resolve integration issues.
Candidates with strength in one or a few relevant technical areas and the ability to lead cross-functional work are encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead an integration team supporting optical modules and devices from development through production.
- Manage team staffing, workload, and performance, including hiring, setting individual goals, coaching engineers, and conducting performance reviews.
- Coordinate with device, optical, electrical, and packaging engineers to address integration challenges and meet product requirements.
- Lead troubleshooting of performance, assembly, yield, and reliability issues using test data and structured problem-solving.
- Support new product introduction, process transfer, and manufacturing readiness, including assembly and test requirements.
- Establish project priorities, track improvement activities, and communicate technical progress across teams.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering, optics, physics, materials science, or a related field, with relevant industry experience.
- Practical experience in one or more of the following areas: optical devices; optical module or transceiver development; optical alignment and packaging; high-speed electrical or optical testing; manufacturing integration, yield improvement, or reliability.
- Ability to analyze technical problems and collaborate across engineering disciplines.
- Experience leading an engineering team or technical projects, with demonstrated ability to delegate work, provide feedback, and develop team members. Technical leaders ready to move into formal people management are welcome.
- Clear communication, a collaborative approach, and willingness to learn beyond their primary area of expertise.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with InP lasers, photodetectors, modulators, silicon photonics, TOSA/ROSA, optical engines, or transceiver manufacturing.
- Experience in high-volume manufacturing, including production ramp-up, yield improvement, or process control.
Location
This position will be on-site based in Sugar Land, Texas.
WHY AOI?
In addition to a competitive salary, AOI offers
- Flexible and competitive health (medical, dental, vision) plans offer the employee 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 the US
- Immigration sponsorships (Must be currently authorized to work in the US)
We do not accept unsolicited proposals from third-party recruiters or agencies. Contacting hiring managers directly may result in disqualification of submissions.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering, optics, physics, materials science, or a related field
- Relevant industry experience in optical devices, optical module or transceiver development, optical alignment and packaging, high-speed electrical or optical testing, manufacturing integration, yield improvement, or reliability
- Ability to analyze technical problems and collaborate across engineering disciplines
- Experience leading an engineering team or technical projects, including delegating work, providing feedback, and developing team members
- Experience with InP lasers, photodetectors, modulators, silicon photonics, TOSA/ROSA, optical engines, or transceiver manufacturing
- Experience in high-volume manufacturing, production ramp-up, yield improvement, or process control
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
