Coherent
This role serves as the central technical authority for product behavior, owning yield, variability, and device performance across all manufacturing stages for assigned products. The position involves leading deep technical investigations into complex yield limiters, developing physics-based hypotheses, and driving yield recovery plans from problem identification through verified improvement. Success in this role requires strong expertise in compound semiconductor epitaxy, advanced data analytics, and wafer process integration to correlate material-level variation with device performance.
Headquarters
Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Company Size
10001+ employees
Founded
1971
Coherent is a global leader in lasers, photonics, engineered materials and networking technologies, providing lasers, optical components, subsystems and materials to industrial, communications, electronics and instrumentation markets. The company develops high‑performance laser systems and photonic solutions for applications such as materials processing, microelectronics, fiber‑optic communications, sensing and scientific research. Combining extensive R&D, global manufacturing and application engineering, Coherent delivers customized systems, components and support that enable customers’ breakthrough technologies worldwide.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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