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The FAB Controller leads financial reporting, close, cost accounting, inventory valuation, forecasting, budgeting, capital expenditure tracking, and manufacturing variance analysis for semiconductor fabrication operations. The role partners with factory, engineering, supply chain, and finance leadership, supports audits and internal controls, improves finance processes and systems, and provides actionable insights into production costs, yields, utilization, investments, and operational performance.

Owns and improves semiconductor assembly processes, especially wirebond and eutectic die attach, to increase yield, efficiency, reliability, and equipment performance. Leads process development, tool selection, installation, qualification, and new product introduction. Conducts statistical experiments and failure analysis, creates operating procedures, trains personnel, and collaborates with cross-functional engineering and manufacturing teams in a cleanroom and 24/7 factory environment.

Develop, qualify, and optimize wet etch and wet clean processes for InP photonic integrated circuits. Improve etch performance, surface quality, contamination control, uniformity, yield, and manufacturability using physics-based analysis, DOE, SPC, and advanced analytics. Provide technical leadership during production excursions, support 24/7 manufacturing operations, develop wet chemistry formulations, and drive process improvements across photonic device fabrication.

Lead development, qualification, optimization, and production support for thin-film and metallization processes used in InP photonic integrated circuits. Own deposition technologies, electroplating, process control, defect reduction, yield improvement, root-cause analysis, equipment qualification, and technology transfer. Collaborate across engineering and manufacturing teams, suppliers, and vendors while providing rapid support for 24x7 production operations.

Manage and grow large enterprise customer accounts across a multi-state territory, focusing on Nokia’s network infrastructure portfolio. Responsibilities include achieving sales and revenue targets, developing account strategies, managing forecasts, leading bid and pre-sales activities, negotiating contracts, building executive relationships, and driving new customer wins and increased share of wallet. The role requires collaboration with sales engineers and internal teams, customer presentations, market development, and travel for meetings and events.

Leads enterprise-wide strategy execution, operating rhythms, performance management, and transformation initiatives. Partners with senior leaders across product, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, sales, HR, and corporate development to align priorities, improve organizational effectiveness, manage strategic programs, support growth and M&A activities, and provide data-driven executive decision support.

Leads Nokia’s optical networking systems portfolio strategy, profitability, roadmap, and market positioning. Defines multi-year business plans, develops customer partnerships, supports RFPs and product launches, and collaborates with R&D, supply chain, sales, and PLM teams. Evaluates ROI, develops pricing and marketing strategies, addresses customer needs, and mentors teams while influencing future optical communication technologies.

Develops wafer-test infrastructure and design-verification experiments for photonic and electronic integrated circuits. Responsibilities include characterizing devices, automating wafer and chip test stations, integrating commercial hardware, analyzing measurement data, collaborating with design teams, and creating custom hardware with CAD and rapid prototyping to support manufacturing.

Designs and develops hardware test boards and platforms for high-speed electro-optical device characterization in R&D and manufacturing environments. Performs laboratory testing, analog design and debugging, test-system development, hardware bring-up, and firmware development for microcontrollers. Supports System-on-Chip optical engine development and interfaces with vendors. Preferred experience includes power supply design, advanced PCB stack-ups, optical instrumentation, automated measurements, and coherent optical communications.

Lead strategic growth and executive customer relationships for Nokia’s data center networking and optical transport portfolio. Develop account strategies, influence customer technology roadmaps, manage complex sales cycles, and coordinate cross-functional teams through qualification, proof-of-concept, procurement, and deployment. Apply expertise in networking, IP routing, optical transport, and data center interconnect technologies to drive revenue, competitive wins, and long-term account expansion with hyperscale and large-scale infrastructure customers.