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Lumentum Canada was awarded the 2022 National Capital Region’s Top Employers for the 6th consecutive year and the 2022 Career Directory Canada’s Best Employers for Recent Graduates for the 5th consecutive year.
 

Lumentum is seeking to hire a Process Automation Software Engineer for our Ottawa based team. The position requires an on-site presence.
 

What do we do? 

It’s an exciting time to join Lumentum!  Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum’s commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.lumentum.com.

We believe Lumentum is a great place to work, and we support a diverse and inclusive culture where employees bring their whole and authentic selves to work.  We strive to build meaningful connections that fuel innovation to produce products that impact the world.  We are committed to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace that includes employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We believe that enables us to better meet our mission and values while serving customers throughout our global communities. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

As a Process Automation Software Engineer, you will be designing, developing, testing, and supporting software applications for process automation in R&D and manufacturing. You will work alongside our process R&D teams during the development of new products.

You will:

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop, implement, and deploy automation test software to interface with optical modules and test instruments, primarily MEMS mirror testing, and Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) based optical block alignment.
• Write hardware drivers for new instrumentation and test equipment.
• Become familiar with manufacturing processes and run manufacturing tests in the lab and manufacturing sites to validate new SW deployments.
• Apply best practices throughout the software lifecycle:
  • Design documentation
  • API documentation
  • Unit Testing
  • Continuous integration
• Investigate, document, and resolve software & process related failures.
• Support process engineers at our manufacturing sites in North America and Asia.
• Develop novel ways to perform manufacturing automation.
• Lead and participate in brainstorming sessions to improve process automation cycle times and robustness.

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in the disciplines of Electrical Engineering, Photonics, Physics, and Computer Engineering

Required Qualifications:            

• Desire to learn, succeed, and to do things right the first time.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong object-oriented software design and implementation (VB.NET and C#).
• Knowledge of free space optics and fiber optics is a strong asset.
• Experience in motion, instrument automation, and electrical probing is an asset.
• Experience with optical instrumentation and optical fiber handling is an asset.

All offers of employment are subject to background checks, appropriate work authorizations, and depending on country, drug screens may be required prior to start date.

As a global employer, Lumentum is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. Protected categories differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but may include race, ethnic origin, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.