Staff Optical Engineer

Your Job

Molex is looking for a Staff Optical Engineer to join our team! This technical person will be a part of our staff and will work in a multi-discipline R&D team, interact with sales, marketing, product line managers, and develop optical transmission system simulations in different geographic sites.

What You Will Do



* Developing and conducting simulations of physical transport layer of various fiber-optic communication network to support customers and internal development projects for best use of Molex cutting edge optical network components and modules, such as high speed Optical Transceivers, DWDM/WDM Filters, Optical Amplifiers, Raman Amplifiers, Dynamic Gain Equalizer (DGE), Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS), etc.


* Studying various aspects of both existing and potential future optical components including fibers to select right technique(s) suitable for modeling nonlinear propagation of optical signals with advanced modulation formats, evaluating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), optical SNR (OSNR), bit-error rate (BER), Q-factor, OSNR penalty and Q-penalty of the transmission system, and giving mitigation and components improvement recommendation on optical impairments (including filtering, chromatic dispersion, PMD, PDL, crosstalk, nonlinearities, etc.).


* Developing and maintaining optical transmission system testing bed in full characterization of optical components and modules as well as system performance measurement for optimization direction


* Developing system design rules, link-level optical line system control algorithm and other innovative ideas for communication systems improvements as well as directions of optical component/module further technology development.


* Participating development projects in system engineer role from conceptual, development and full NPI


* Supporting technical discussion with customers for best use of Molex solutions and products, and their deployment

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Strong Knowledge of building blocks of fiber-optic transmission systems: Optical Transceivers (direct and coherent), DWDM/WDM Filters, Optical Amplifiers, Raman Amplifiers, Dynamic Gain Equalizer (DGE), Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS), etc.


* Strong knowledge of optical tranmission system, nonlinear optics and related mathetmatics, and communications theory.


* Strong knowledge and experience in creating simulation models for communication systems and using the models to analyze and optimize the system (e.g., signal propagation, system level modeling, amplifier and component modeling, etc.)


* Strong analytical skills and extensive experience with programing languages used in computer modeling of communication systems (e.g.

Matlab, C++, Python), competent to find creative solutions when approaching problems and challenges


* MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or similar field


* 5 years of experience combined from academia and industry in the area o...