Senior Photonics Engineer

Dublin

This is an exciting opportunity for a permanent position with a highly innovative company developing a ground breaking product, in Ireland, in the telecoms market.

The successful candidate will be an open and enthusiastic engineer/scientist, with a strong personal interest in engineering and photonics at the highest level, willing to share experiences and learn from a talented employee pool. The successful candidate will exhibit a strong curiosity sense on deep technical matters, an eagerness to understand, develop and control complex issues so as to deliver engineerable solutions to real world photonics problems. We are actively seeking a scientist/engineer with experience in designing and developing fibre-optic communication systems. A strong background in fibre optics telecommunication and a proven ability to innovate both at a team and individual level.

Working within a cross functional environment, the candidate needs to exhibit a desire to influence and work with other engineering functions to achieve personal and company goals.


Main Responsibilities:

 

• Ideate, develop, execute/support laboratory investigations and experiments.
• Contribute in developing and analyzing optical communication systems, as well as the subsystem employed in the build of such systems.
• Contribute in cross validation of modeling results against experimental results.
• Develop and execute laboratory test plans in the following areas: fibre channel performance, fault management.
• Interface with vendors on requirements, specifications, and design reviews.
• Contribute to proposals with designs, cost estimates, and technical write-ups.
• Adherence and development of in house development processes

Experience, skills and qualification required:

 
• PhD degree in Engineering or Science or M.S. in Optical Engineering (or equivalent degree) with 2 year’s experience.
• Preferably 2 years of relevant experience working on photonics subsystems (lasers, DWDM filtering and amplification technologies and/or high bit rate transceiver/transponders)
• Have worked in or have a strong appreciation of rigorous product Development Lifecycles.
• Have a strong need to succeed, with a rigorous attention to detail
• Experience  on bringing photonic subsystems from research into the production environment is beneficial

 


Technical Skills:

 
• Expert laboratory practice familiar with all the main Test and Measurement equipment and techniques (BERTs, PDL, OSA, OSNR, dispersion, OTDR etc.)
• Expert on impairments and impact such impairments have on communication systems (PDL, OSNR, N.F., XGM, SHB, SPM, FWM,)
• Good knowledge of communication theory, techniques and technologies
• Good working knowledge of MATLAB, LabVIEW or VPI
• Competent working with MS Office applications.
• TCL, Perl or other scripting languages experience (of benefit).

 

Interpersonal Skills:

 
• Ability to write, present and converse clearly, concisely and confidently on complex technical problems, solutions and workarounds.
• Excellent team working capacity and ability to influence.
• Proactive and adaptable.
• Motivated with a track record of meeting deadlines.

 

To apply please send your CV to

 

The applications are open till the end of April 2012.

 

Intune Networks is an Equal Opportunities Employer