Senior Principal Electrical Engineer

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Senior Principal Electrical Engineer – Consultant

Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a global leader in 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. 

We are looking for a Principal Electrical Engineer in power electronics and control systems for the Commercial Lasers research and development group. This position consults the R&D teams in the development of high-power electronics for the all related product developments. It includes close collaboration with the program managers, design leads and direct manager.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop product specifications, schedules and roadmaps.
• Design system architectures for new products and product lines
• Design control systems in both continuous and discrete domains to meet rigorous stability and rise/fall specifications.
• Circuit design and evaluation: analog, digital, power supplies, programmable devices.
• Schematic capture and PCB layout.
• Develop test plans and perform design verification testing
• Resolve complex signal integrity and EMC problems
• Collaborate with NPI teams to document and release all aspects of design to production.

Required skills:

• MSEE or PhD in Electrical Engineering
• 12+ years relevant experience
• Switching power supply design
• Control theory / digital control systems design. DSP algorithms, Analog signal processing.
• Experience with power components: MOSFET, GaN, SIC devices
• Experience with magnetics design.
• C programming expertise, including efficient, real-time programming
• Mastery of digital and analog circuit design and debug
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• VHDL or Verilog and FPGA experience is desired

The Commercial Lasers Business Unit offers OEM customers the widest variety of laser modules, engines, and components for macro-materials processing, micromachining, biotechnology, analytics instrumentation, and more. The Commercial Laser Business Unit is profitable and growing, it’s highly regarded technical engineering team is based primarily in San Jose, CA and Zurich with manufacturing in Thailand.  The company is well-positioned for continued success in the rapidly growing markets it serves.

Pay Range:

Disclaimer:

Final base salary for the successful candidate will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job location, where work will be performed, qualifications, work history and relevant experience. With our continual goal of making Lumentum a best place to work for our employees, we strive to offer employees competitive total compensation packages, which may include annual bonus, commission for certain sales roles, equity, and health and welfare benefits.