# Product Engineer - Optics Operations

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Maynard, MA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $136,500.00 to $198,500.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Optics Operations Product Engineering team at Cisco partners with cross-functional teams to design and sustain Optical transceiver components and modules throughout their product lifecycle. As a Product Engineer, you will be responsible for collaborating with engineering teams to provide feedback on DFM and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), partnering with quality teams to execute optical-electrical testing, and developing end-to-end manufacturing and test solutions.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to provide feedback on DFM and PFMEA

- Partner with quality teams to execute optical-electrical testing, de-risking, and industry-standard qualification processes

- Develop end-to-end manufacturing and test solutions, qualify and release to production

- Improve alpha/beta/pilot stage product build yield, troubleshoot, and ensure manufacturing readiness

- Involve in NPI with focus on manufacturing process development for optical transceivers or optical sub-assemblies

- Transition advanced optical designs into high-volume production, drive manufacturing readiness, characterization, and PFMEA

- Establish manufacturing metrics to drive continuous improvement of equipment performance and process

- Drive characterization of NPI and sustaining product yields

Minimum Qualifications:

- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering and/or related engineering fields

- 8+ years of industry experience in product engineering or product development for high-volume production with focus on silicon photonics, optical transceivers, or opto-electronic packaging sub-assemblies

- Proven track record of transitioning products from NPI to High volume production

- Knowledge and experience with design for manufacturability (DFM) during product development

- Proficiency in statistical and analytical tools such as Python, JMP Scripting, AI models

- Experience in opto-electrical testing, Failure Analysis, and PFMEA Yield predicting, monitoring, and improvement

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with active optical alignment, die attach, wire bonding, wafer packaging

- Experience with chip packaging assembly processes development

- Experience with product development tasks: Bill of Materials and Change Management

- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills

- Experience with Optics and Silicon Photonics sub-assemblies

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- JMP Scripting
- AI models
- opto-electrical testing
- Failure Analysis
- PFMEA

### Nice to have
- active optical alignment
- die attach
- wire bonding
- wafer packaging
- chip packaging assembly processes development

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