Koch Industries

Application Engineer - Optoelectronics

Koch Industries$100K — $150K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
  • Hands-on lab experience from internships or coursework
  • Familiarity with testing equipment such as power meters and oscilloscopes
  • Strong interest in customer-facing roles and problem resolution
  • Experience with hardware and electrical circuitry
  • Knowledge in clock domains, voltage regulation, and thermal analysis
  • Understanding of object-oriented programming principles

Responsibilities

  • Support the existing field application team with electrical and hardware expertise
  • Collaborate with customers and sales teams to develop product concepts and qualifications
  • Provide technical support and resolve critical customer issues
  • Define product test requirements with the engineering team
  • Interpret industry standards and customer requirements to guide product development
  • Bring-up transceiver modules on-site for customer applications

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement plan with employer contributions
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Potential for additional support for family-related needs such as fertility assistance and adoption aid
Full Job Description
Our Opto-Electronics team is seeking an Application Engineer to support and grow our portfolio of optical solutions, with a focus on transceiver technologies. This role offers a hands-on opportunity to work across hardware and system-level challenges, including testing, troubleshooting, and firmware validation. The ideal candidate will have an Electrical Engineering degree with hands on hardware lab experience and this role will provide an opportunity to develop a deep expertise in optical components and hardware validation to effectively support customer requirements and lead technical engagements.

What You Will Do
  • Work closely with existing field application team to apply electrical and hardware knowledge in customer support, including: high-speed signal performance analysis, power consumption evaluation, a Firmware root cause investigation.
  • Work closely with customers and Molex sales team from product conception to successful customer qualification. Manage design-in activity in concert with internal teams.
  • Provide technical support of strategic accounts and drive critical customer issues to resolution.
  • Work with engineering team to define product test requirements.
  • Interpret industry standards, customer requirements, and competitive intelligence in order to provide guidance into product features and performance requirements to meet customer module qualification.
  • Bring-up transceiver modules at customer sites and develop solutions that support end-user applications


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering
  • Experience in co-op, internship, coursework that required working in a lab
  • Experience with power meters, oscilloscope, network analyzers, etc
  • Strong interest in customer-facing roles and field issue resolution
  • Hands on experience with hardware and electrical circuitry
  • Internship or course work related to: clock domains, voltage regulation, power consumption, thermal analysis, hardware validation
  • Understanding of object-oriented programming principle
  • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics or Computer Science


For this role, we anticipate paying $100,000 - $150,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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