Senior Principal Optical Design Engineer

Coherent Corp.

Senior Principal Optical Design Engineer responsible for optical design of advanced Co-Packaged Optics at Coherent Corp. Integrating high-speed Silicon Photonics and collaborating with suppliers.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeFremont • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $127,875 - $223,813 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Ray

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As a core member of design team, responsible for optical modeling and parameters optimizing.
Communicate with suppliers and CM/SDE to build components and respond to feedbacks.
Coordinate with internal team to review and respond to their DFM items, optimize design.
Responsible for and support the failure analysis on the components and final products.
Responsible for training new optical engineers and peer review optical design.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of related experience in optical transceiver electrical design.
Or Master’s degree with 5 years; or a PhD with 3 years experience.
Capable of expressing in English with accuracy and efficiency, for both written and oral.
Proficiency with optics ray tracing software such as Zemax.
Familiarity with fiber optic transceivers and CPO/NPO modules a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Regular use of a computer and other office equipment is necessary
Interaction with team members and external contacts is a regular part of the job
May require occasional overtime and flexibility in work hours to accommodate the executive’s needs

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Hard Skills & Tools

optical modelingparameters optimizingfailure analysisoptical designoptical transceiver designfiber optic transceivers

Soft Skills

communicationcoordinationtrainingpeer review

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreePhD