This Site Engineering role within Nokia's Product Validation & Test (PV&T;) R&D; is responsible for developing and deploying optical test stations directly at manufacturing sites for Nokia's optical products, including coherent pluggables, TROSA, and related photonic hardware. As a full member of the PV&T; engineering organization, you will serve as PV&T;'s working arm on the factory floor, spending substantial time setting up, debugging, and improving test stations, and driving R&D; hardware, software, fixture, and procedure changes into manufacturing teams. This is an R&D; position, not a CM test technician, supply chain/operations, or pure program management role, focusing specifically on Test Station Development (TSD) for either coherent pluggable and/or TROSA stations; depth in one of these station families, combined with TSD skills, is sufficient.
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Responsibilities
• Design, bring up, debug, and improve optical test stations for performance, reliability, and production readiness.

• Integrate test stations into factory test flows, collaborating with manufacturing and CM teams.





• Analyze station data to inform design improvements and test protocol enhancements.

• Drive the implementation of R&D; changes (hardware, software, procedures) into manufacturing.

• Develop and maintain accurate and repeatable test protocols, addressing compliance and safety.

• Represent PV&T; at manufacturing sites, mentoring others and resolving station issues.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, Physics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in developing optical and/or electrical test stations or Automated Test Equipment (ATE).

• Working knowledge of optical measurement principles and how test hardware/software functions.

• Comfort working in a manufacturing setting and willingness to travel regularly to sites in Thailand and Malaysia.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across hardware, software,

📌 Site Engineer, Test Station Development (Bengaluru)
🏢 NOKIA
📍 Bengaluru