Primary Role and Responsibilities:

• This role will closely partner and be co-located with R&D at the VIAVI Ottawa office.
• New Product Introduction (NPI) for VIAVI market leading MAP optical test platform.
• Provide DFT direction to R&D at the concept stage of new product development
• Test development and ongoing continuous improvement for the test solutions on the MAP series product portfolio.
• Design, develop, and influence the various automated production systems required to implement the product test strategy.
• Devise the overall manufacturing and service and configuration strategy for new products and optimize manufacturing & service calibration and test.
• Detailed project planning to ensure that all production systems are developed, debugged, and validated in time for production pilot run.
• Partner with R&D and Mfg. Engineering to develop contract manufacturing ready and reliable test systems, jigs & fixturing.
• Effective use of Gage R&R and measure system evaluation tools in NPI to ensure stable test system are deployed in manufacturing and service.
• Installation and validation of production systems at the final production facility, usually at contract manufacture in Asia.
• Support TL9000 Periodic Re-test program for VIAVI MAP series portfolio.
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Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

Personal skills/attributes and experience:

• 4-year Bachelor of Science in Optical Engineering, Physics and/or Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience developing automated test, both hardware and software.
• Knowledge of fiber optic communications technology – e.g., Power Meter, Spectrum Analyzer, OTDR etc.
• LabWindows CVI programing experience, LabVIEW.
• Experience with National Instruments TestStand would be beneficial.
• Experienced in a structured programming language (such as C / C++).
• Python or other scripting based programming experience
• SQL database programming experience for test record and data management.
• Demonstrated project planning/management skills.
• Process improvement and data analysis – knowledge of Lean principles or equivalent experience.
• Must be a self-starter, strong team player and demonstrate leadership skills.
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time to Asia contract manufacturing site.
• Language - English primary. (Additional language skills beneficial but not a requirement).