Optical Test Engineer

Your Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Optical Test Engineer to join our Fiber Optic Engineering team.

This role is ideal for an engineer with who is interested in developing and advancing their optical test capabilities.

The successful candidate will support the testing, characterization, and qualification of fiber optic components and assemblies.

This position involves hands-on laboratory work, data analysis, fixture design, automation development, and collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams to develop optical test methods for guided and free-space optical beams.

Our Team

Molex is an industry leader in transforming optical network infrastructure with an unwavering commitment to speed, reliability, and performance.

We proudly engineer high-performance systems for critical, fast-growing industries including data centers, telecom, medical, and industrial automation.

Our team develops an advanced portfolio of optical solutions, ranging from cutting-edge optical connectivity products-such as expanded beam connectors, fiber management, adapters, and hybrid copper/fiber solutions for medical systems-to end-to-end optoelectronic solutions featuring cages, connectors, optical transceivers, and cable assemblies.

Supporting extreme data rates from 100 Mbps to 1.6 Tbps across long-haul distances up to 80km+, we deliver complete wavelength management and turnkey OEM solutions.

Come join Molex and help build the future of global connectivity.

What You Will Do
Advanced Optical Testing

• Develop, execute, and document optical test methods for product characterization and qualification.

• Develop test methods to evaluate key optical properties of materials, such as adhesives and glasses, as they are applied to optical fibers.

• Perform laboratory optical alignment using automated stages to build active alignment setups.

• Operate and maintain advanced optical test equipment, including optical power meters, beam profilers, polarization analyzers, interferometers, optical spectrum analyzers, OTDRs, environmental test systems, and automated optical measurement systems.

• Design and build test fixtures and automated measurement systems.

• Analyze test data using statistical methods and prepare technical reports.

• Support environmental and reliability testing to validate product performance.
Software & Automation

• Develop test automation and data acquisition software using LabVIEW and Python.

• Create scripts and tools for processing large optical test datasets.

• Improve laboratory efficiency through automation and software development.

• Support integration of instruments, motion control systems, cameras, and optical measurement equipment.
Mechanical Design

• Design test fixtures, tooling, and laboratory equipment using SolidWorks or Siemens NX.

• Generate engineering drawings and support fabrication of custom hardware to develop testing fixtures.
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

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