Lumentum
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Internship - Field Application Engineer

Pay
$24 – $54 per hour
Location
San Jose (Ridder, CA
Listed
Today

About the role

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Lumentum Inc. San Jose, California, United States

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic overachievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Team Overview

The Field Application Engineering (FAE) team provides technical support for the development and implementation of complex products/applications/solutions. This is an opportunity to deepen product, application, and market knowledge in the Cloud and AI networking infrastructure. Team will assist the sales staff in assessing potential application of company products to meet customer needs and help review product specifications for the development and implementation of customer products/applications/solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Support FAE team with application lab expansion and network testing.
  • Work closely with FAE and sales team to review customer requirements and application use cases.
  • Work with firmware development team to help identify bugs.
  • Participation in Failure Analysis, Corrective Action & Lessons Learned activities

Minimum Qualifications

  • Currently enrolled in a degree program related to physical sciences or electrical engineering.
  • Foundational knowledge of the subject matter relevant to the role.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze information, communicate effectively, and complete work collaboratively.
  • Available for the full internship period.

Desired Qualifications

  • Practical working knowledge of transceiver hardware, or network switching and connectivity including both specification and testing of firmware/hardware interfaces.
  • Device firmware structure & functionality
  • Standards documents like CMIS, Ethernet, InfiniBand, Industry MSAs
  • Python

Pay Range

$23.75 - 54.30/hour USD

Pay Range

Final base salary for the successful candidate will depend on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job location, where work will be performed, qualifications, work history and relevant experience. With our continual goal of making Lumentum the best place to work for our employees, we strive to offer employees competitive total compensation packages, which may include annual bonus, commission for certain sales roles, equity, and health and welfare benefits.

Read the original posting

From Lumentum's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 15, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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What is the salary for the Internship - Field Application Engineer role at Lumentum?

The Internship - Field Application Engineer posting at Lumentum states compensation of $24 – $54 per hour. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Lumentum's official career site.

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