The Test Technician performs final optical assembly optimization and testing to ensure accuracy, repeatability, and performance within defined requirements. Role executes optical tests, interprets results, and supports mechanical and optical adjustments.
Compensation
$48,000.00 - $72,000.00, depending on experience.
Responsibilities
Perform optical testing accurately and consistently, including measurements of transmission, wavefront error, mechanical fit, and boresight error.
Perform assembly optimization activities such as mechanical alignment and shim adjustments using optical test data.
Apply optical theory and terminology to understand system performance and test results.
Interpret measurement results and identify adjustable degrees of freedom to improve optical performance.
Identify causes of variation in optical performance.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university preferred
Associate degree in optics or equivalent technical discipline preferred
Lead work in customer environments and co-locations, ensuring reliable installation, maintenance, and operation of optical transport and infrastructure within customer data centers.
Compensation
The salary range for this position is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, and the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.
Responsibilities
Conduct daily audits of work performed on behalf of Ericsson at customer data centers and co-locations and provide immediate feedback to 3PP technicians.
Interact directly with the customer via their ticketing tools or face-to-face, providing clear and concise reports and updates that promote Ericsson’s value.
Assist with fiber installation, decommissioning, break/fix, remediation and migration activities across data center optical and transport environments.
Conduct and/or supervise optical testing and troubleshooting using tools such as optical power meters, stabilized light sources, VFLs, OTDRs, and test sets.
Deliver services by accurately interpreting and executing Methods of Procedure (MoPs), engineering documents, vendor documentation, and network diagrams.
The Test Technician performs final optical assembly optimization and testing to ensure accuracy, repeatability, and performance within defined requirements.
Compensation
The compensation range for this position is $48,000.00 - $72,000.00, depending on experience.
Responsibilities
Perform optical testing accurately and consistently, including measurements of transmission, wavefront error, mechanical fit, and boresight error.
Perform assembly optimization activities such as mechanical alignment and shim adjustments using optical test data.
Apply optical theory and terminology to understand system performance and test results.
Interpret measurement results and identify adjustable degrees of freedom to improve optical performance.
Identify causes of variation in optical performance.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university preferred
Associate degree in optics or equivalent technical discipline preferred
Apply optics and photonics knowledge to optical system development, including design, analysis, and validation
Represent the optical system in program-level, cross-disciplinary trades and issue resolution
Define requirements for high‑performant optical systems in challenging environmental conditions
Lead optical architecture definition through internal trade studies, concept of operations definition, and risk reduction testing
Participate in verification testing, including environmental qualification, performance characterization, reliability testing, and fault injection testing
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in physics, computer science, electrical engineering, or other engineering/STEM discipline
Nice to have: Master's degree or PhD in physics or an engineering discipline
Nice to have: experience leading development of commercial communications products
Nice to have: hardware development for high-reliability applications
Nice to have: experience with infrared system alignment and characterization
Build, test, troubleshoot, and run experiments on new optical and photonic products during development, support transfer of new products and processes into manufacturing, develop procedures, create work instructions, train operators, and ensure assembly and test methods can be executed consistently in production.
Compensation
The salary range for this position is $38.65 to $43.39 - Final wage depends on experience.
Responsibilities
Test, characterize, and troubleshoot complex optical systems
Develop and maintain work instructions, procedures, and test methods
Handle, assemble, and inspect small, delicate components using microscopes and precision tools
Support the transfer of product builds and assembly processes from R&D to production
Train operators on assembly, alignment, testing, and manufacturing procedures
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