Senior Engineer, Manufacturing Product

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What do we do?

Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum’s commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities.

Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.lumentum.com.

The Senior Engineer, Manufacturing Product is a senior individual contributor role responsible for driving failure analysis excellence and product reliability improvement for Cloud products. This role serves as a Failure Analysis Engineer, working closely with Manufacturing, R&D, Product Engineering, Process Engineering, Quality, and Global Engineering teams to identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and improve product robustness across the manufacturing and field lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Failure Analysis

• Serve as the Failure Analysis Engineer for assigned Cloud products, owning technical investigation, root cause determination, and corrective action effectiveness.

• Lead detailed failure analysis for manufacturing, reliability, and field-return issues using structured methodologies.

• Act as the technical focal point for failure-related escalations and cross-functional investigations.

Manufacturing & Product Industrialization

• Support product industrialization from development through volume production.

• Ensure product readiness for manufacturing, including BOM accuracy, drawings, specifications, and configuration control.

• Work closely with Process Engineering to ensure effective integration of product design with manufacturing processes.

New Product Introduction (NPI) & Lifecycle Support

• Execute product engineering activities for NPI, product transfer, and production ramp.

• Support Design for Manufacturability, Assembly, Test, and Reliability in collaboration with R&D and Process Engineering.

• Support product qualification, documentation release, and engineering change management.

Yield, Quality & Cost Performance

• Support analysis and improvement of product yield, performance, and quality metrics.

• Participate in root cause analysis and corrective actions for product-related manufacturing and field issues.

• Contribute to cost reduction initiatives through product optimization and engineering changes.

Cross-Functional & Global Collaboration

• Collaborate with local and global engineering teams to support product readiness and execution.

• Communicate technical status, risks, and data-driven recommendations to stakeholders.

• Support alignment across functions to ensure smooth manufacturing execution.

Safety, Health & Environmental (EHS) Responsibility

• Comply with all EHS policies, procedures, and standards.

• Actively support EHS initiatives and continuous improvement actions.

• Promote safe work practices and contribute to a Zero Accident Culture.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Optical, Physics, Materials Science, or related field); Master’s preferred.

• 6–10+ years of experience in failure analysis, product engineering, or manufacturing engineering within high-tech manufacturing environments.

• Strong hands-on experience in failure analysis techniques, root cause analysis, and corrective action validation.

• Experience supporting manufacturing issues, reliability testing, and field-return analysis.

• Background in optical, photonics, semiconductor, or electronics manufacturing is strongly preferred.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills.

• Effective communication skills in English and ability to work in a global team environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Please contact us to request accommodation.