Work with internal and external subject matter experts, tooling designers, fabrication suppliers, contract manufacturers, and cable assembly houses to maintain awareness of emerging fabrication methods, tooling approaches, assembly techniques, and optical connectivity technologies and support their application across new product introductions and process improvements to establish build requirements and deliver prototypes effectively, thus ensuring prototype requirements, design details, changes, and lessons learned are properly documented in conjunction with manufacturing, development, and commercial personnel. 7+ years of experience in development, prototyping, manufacturing engineering, or experimental laboratory environment; working across multiple product concepts, fabrication methods, and/or manufacturing processes, with a proven track record of providing technical direction or leadership to engineers, technicians, or project teams to support prototype design, build, and delivery activities.