Reliability and Testing Engineer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Adliswil

Your mission

You will play a key role in the development, testing, and reliability analysis of photonic integrated circuits and plasmonic modulators. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, applying industry standards, and ensuring the optimal performance and reliability of products.

Cooperate with the development team to monitor and execute reliability validation plans for new photonic integrated circuit products, aligning with product characteristics and customer requirements.
Develop and automate characterization methods for photonic integrated circuits and plasmonic modulators.
Plan and conduct industry-standard reliability tests
Perform accelerated life testing, lifetime prediction analysis, and failure analysis, including identifying failure mechanisms using industry tools.
Maintain lab and testing equipment, ensuring calibration and proper functionality.
Perform data analysis for reliability trends
Execute Design for Reliability (DfR) exercises, including identifying design risks through DFMEA.
Develop reliability assessment plans for product lifecycle under real-world application conditions.
Work with other engineers and project leaders on failure analysis during product development and manufacturing.
Write detailed reliability reports adhering to reliability testing standards.

Your profile

Bachelor's degree in quality engineering, material science, reliability engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a similar discipline.
Experience in a reliability-focused role, specifically in the field of photonics or electrical components.
Experience with reliability tools, technologies, and methods
Strong understanding of failure mechanisms, reliability engineering principles, and statistical process control.
Experience with reliability standards, as well as lifetime prediction methods.
Familiarity with failure analysis techniques, especially in material science, optical epoxies, lasers, and electrical components.
Hands-on experience developing automated test SW, with proficiency in Matlab, Python, and/or C.
Previous experience working in the SAFe framework is a nice-to-have

Why us?

At Polariton, you'll be part of a pioneering technology leader in photonic integrated circuits, a rapidly growing industry with vast potential that is helping to build the future of technology and communications. While the market is in catch-up mode, Polariton raises the bar and characterizes MZM and IQ to 145 GHz.

We offer more than just a job—our flexible working schedule allows you to achieve results working with autonomy while contributing to the exciting development of the European photonics sector.

Join a diverse, cross-functional team of experts from different nationalities, where collaboration and innovation thrive. With short decision-making cycles, you'll have the opportunity to influence key decisions and help shape the future of this cutting-edge technology.

Become part of a company that values team-work, curiosity, creativity, and communication.

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About us

Polariton Technologies is at the forefront of revolutionizing optical connectivity, providing the world's fastest, smallest, and most energy-efficient photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to leaders in academia and industry. Our mission is to overcome existing technology limitations and empower our adopters to address the next frontier of photonic challenges.

Born out of ETH Zurich in 2019, we now have a team of over 20 amazing professionals from different backgrounds and 15 different nationalities, working by our values of Teamwork and Collaboration, Curiosity and Continuous Learning and Clear and Effective Communication.

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