# Optical Module Design and Development Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Nuremberg
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join Cisco's High-Speed Optics team, an innovative group dedicated to advancing the design, integration, and validation of cutting-edge optical modules and interfaces.

Your Impact:

- Translate product requirements to design and component requirements

- Define system architecture including evaluation of enabling technologies, both hardware and software

- Create simulation tools for investigating the application and performance impact of component parameters

- Review manufacturing testing activities and ensure product delivered aligns with product requirements and customer expectations

- Lead in some early product demonstrations to customers

- Plan and direct advanced, innovative technical projects

- Pursue new technology for product suitability

- Serve as a domain expert or cross-domain integrator, leveraging breadth of knowledge to connect emerging technology trends and assess their impact on Cisco products

- Ensure the development, execution, and enablement of technology strategies that deliver long-term business impact

- Stay ahead of evolving technology and industry trends, shaping innovation and enabling Cisco to maintain a strong competitive advantage

- Partner across engineering, product, and business teams to translate strategic vision into scalable, high-impact solutions

- Mentor and influence senior technical leaders, driving architectural consistency and engineering excellence across the organization

Minimum qualifications:

- Experienced in optical transmission systems and a strong background in communication theory

- Master's degree in electrical engineering

- Knowledge in optical components and measurement technology plus knowledge in creating and using simulations tools

- Knowledge in Matlab and Python

Preferred qualifications:

- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related technical field

- Demonstrated experience leading feasibility studies and joint development projects with industry or academic partners

- Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

- Proven ability to drive innovation and collaborate effectively in international, cross-functional teams

## Skills

### Required
- optical transmission systems
- communication theory
- electrical engineering
- Matlab
- Python

### Nice to have
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
- Applied Physics
- feasibility studies
- joint development projects
- analytical thinking
- problem-solving
- decision-making skills

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