Lead Supplier Quality Engineer – Optical Transceiver Products - USA - CA - San Jose (Ridder), United States
$134,750 - $192,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 29 July 2026 by the employer.
Support supplier quality for optical transceiver products, including high-speed electronics, optical engines, and laser assemblies.
About the role
As a Lead Supplier Quality Engineer, you will drive supplier quality excellence for the optical transceiver portfolio, partnering with cross-functional teams and strategic suppliers. This role focuses on ensuring supplier capability, manufacturing readiness, and product quality from technology development through sustaining manufacturing.
What you'll do
- Serve as the Prime Supplier Quality Engineer for the Business Unit, owning the supplier quality strategy.
- Lead supplier qualification, manufacturing capability assessments, and process audits.
- Partner with Product Development and Component Engineering to ensure supplier readiness for New Product Introduction (NPI).
- Act as the primary technical quality interface between Lumentum and strategic suppliers.
- Utilize supplier quality metrics and statistical analysis to improve supplier capability and product quality.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Quality, Product Quality, or Quality Engineering within a high-technology manufacturing environment.
- Technical understanding of optical transceiver architecture, including high-speed electronics, optical engines, laser assemblies, photonic components, PCBAs, and final module integration.
- Experience with Silicon Photonics, Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), advanced optical packaging, or photonic integration.
- Knowledge of high-speed electrical systems, signal integrity, electronic manufacturing technologies, and optical packaging.
- Experience with PCBA manufacturing processes, including SMT assembly, PCB fabrication, and electronic component qualification.
Nice to have
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional technical decisions across engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, and suppliers.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally (approximately 20–30%).
This role has been open 81 days — well above the 51-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · AI ML Hardware
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Open roles in category
963
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$156k
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| Metric | Lumentum | All employers we track in this specialty (963 roles · 102 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 8 | 963 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 30 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 17 d | 51 d (−34 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $156k |
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How we counted: 963 open Hardware Systems Engineering (AI ML Hardware) roles from 102 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.