Does new product development. Note customers (no names) at bottom.
PRINCIPAL ENGINEER , New Product Development , at Denselight Semiconductors , Singapore ( www.denselight.com ) providing photonics products such as DFBs , PINs , ELEDs , SLEDs , FP and External Cavity Lasers , Tunable Narrow Linewidth FBGLs and Gain Chips for use in applications such as Medical , DAS , Tele-Communication , Defense , LIDAR , Test and Measurement Systems and Navigation .
Assignments as part of my current designation involve :-
1. New Product Introduction : Interact with Design/Product Team , Sales and Application team and any Customers . Define and conduct Engineering tests and evaluations to identify optimal design and process recipes such as for Epi structure , coating , ridge/cavity/grating design etc .
2. Work to improve parameters such as Single/Multiple Modes , 3dB BW , Ripple , SMSR , Mode-Hop , SLSR , Linewidth , FWHM , RIN , DOP , PER , LIV Parameters such as Optical kink , Roll-Over , Threshold current etc .
3. Define production test plans , test flows and test methods . WAT . Hand over developed product to Manufacturing team . Yield improvement . Telcordia GR-468 standard Reliability testing .
4. Work with FA , Rel and QA . Study and analyze production data and provide continuous improvement plans . Define/change specs/limits . FMEA , 8D analysis , RMA Analysis and reporting .
5. Work with Software team to develop new applications and tools for measurement and analysis , improve capacity .
6. Support Operations team and Equipment team . Provide training .
7. Work with vendors for test hardware .
Customers : Automotive , Communication , Defence , Navigation , Medical and Sensing Industry .