Site Engineer, Test Station Development

• Will NSA/CAPS approval be required? (E.g., accessing a US Customer Network?): No
• Role Type: Individual contributor
• Laptop - support with ordering needed: Yes
• Experience level: Experienced

This Site Engineering role within Nokia's Product Validation & Test (PV&T) R&D is responsible for developing and deploying optical test stations directly at manufacturing sites for Nokia's optical products, including coherent pluggables, TROSA, and related photonic hardware. As a full member of the PV&T engineering organization, you will serve as PV&T's working arm on the factory floor, spending substantial time setting up, debugging, and improving test stations, and driving R&D hardware, software, fixture, and procedure changes into manufacturing teams. This is an R&D position, not a CM test technician, supply chain/operations, or pure program management role, focusing specifically on Test Station Development (TSD) for either coherent pluggable and/or TROSA stations; depth in one of these station families, combined with TSD skills, is sufficient.

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Responsibilities

• Design, bring up, debug, and improve optical test stations for performance, reliability, and production readiness.
• Integrate test stations into factory test flows, collaborating with manufacturing and CM teams.
• Analyze station data to inform design improvements and test protocol enhancements.
• Drive the implementation of R&D changes (hardware, software, procedures) into manufacturing.
• Develop and maintain accurate and repeatable test protocols, addressing compliance and safety.
• Represent PV&T at manufacturing sites, mentoring others and resolving station issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, Physics, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in developing optical and/or electrical test stations or Automated Test Equipment (ATE).
• Working knowledge of optical measurement principles and how test hardware/software functions.
• Comfort working in a manufacturing environment and willingness to travel regularly to sites in Thailand and Malaysia.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across hardware, software, and manufacturing teams to resolve issues.
• Experience with coherent pluggable / PIC test-station or ATE development (or).
• Experience with TROSA / photonic-assembly test-station or ATE development.
• Familiarity with electrical design, simulation, or schematic/layout support for test hardware.
• Experience with fixture, thermal, or PCB work, including RF and low-frequency signals.
• Proficiency in source control and software-driven test infrastructure (e.g., Git, Azure DevOps).

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