CPO Development Staff Engineer

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a CPO Development Staff Engineer located in Prai, Penang .

Holding up on mechanical, electrical, and testing of product design for a new and rapidly growing division within Flex. Work in comprehending product requirements, assembling prototypes for products under development, and creating fixtures for assembly and test of prototypes. Implementing world-class solutions for our customers.

What a typical day looks like:

• Work with a matrixed, cross-functional team of technical experts within the Flex organization, extending and building new resources/capabilities to incorporate into the Flex knowledge base.
• Drive toward creative, robust, and effective solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Support the engineering team with prototyping, product build, bring-up, test, documentation, and successful release to manufacturing.
• Contribute with a cross-functional team to develop technically robust and effective solutions to a wide variety of design problems.
• Manage design parameters and design trade-off priorities in close coordination with other team members.
• Help develop best practices, identify equipment, and material needs with members of the team.
• Define and design system and subsystem approaches to meet project and program design goals, requirements, and schedules.
• Identify standard products and sub-blocks for inclusion into solution proposals.
• Develop key relationships with internal design teams and subcontractors to plan comprehensive product strategies based on future technologies.
• Strive for improvements and efficiencies in engineering processes.
• Monitor KPIs for engineering processes.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of technical development and trends in the field of expertise.

• Possess at least a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optoelectronics / Photonics, Microelectronics / Semiconductor Packaging, Applied Physics or Optical Engineering, or equivalent.
• Minimum 5-8 years of experience in semiconductor packaging, photonics, or optical module assembly.
• Hands-on experience in CPO, transceiver packaging, or optical engine integration.
• Experience in fiber cleaning, routing, and inspection processes.
• Exposure to switch ASIC and optical engine co-integration (co-packaging roadmap).
• Familiar with cleanroom practices (ISO Class 1000 / 10000 environments).

• Fiber attach, active alignment (multi-axis alignment, ± sub-micron accuracy).
• Die attach, flip-chip bonding, underfill, wirebonding.
• Micro-optics handling (lens, prism, couplers).
• Proficiency with fiber optic inspection equipment (video inspection microscopes, interferometers).
• Knowledge of fiber cleaning standards (IEC 61300-3-35).
• Experience in cable/fiber routing & handling (bend radius, patch panel management).

• Knowledge of electrical-optical co-design for CPO switch systems.
• Understanding of thermal management in high-density CPO assemblies.
• Familiarity with silicon photonics (SiPh) transceivers and co-packaged switch modules.

• Experience with optical alignment verification (power coupling efficiency, insertion/return loss).
• Proficiency in metrology tools: interferometers, SEM/optical microscopes.
• Reliability testing (temperature cycling, humidity, shock/vibration).

• Working in ISO Class 1000/10000 environments.
• ESD & contamination control.

• FOA (Fiber Optic Association) certifications.
• IPC-A-610 / J-STD-001 (electronics assembly quality).
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Allowances & Bonuses*