# Senior Optical Component Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You will work closely with a network of Cisco optical suppliers and internal Cisco teams to guide optical transceiver, optical module, and optical transport product qualification and module assembly.

As a Senior Optical Component Engineer, you will lead optical device and assembly process qualification for Cisco's optical transport and optical transceiver products.

Responsibilities:

- Assess, develop, and qualify suppliers and technologies for wavelength line management (WLM) and optical transceivers.

- Conduct technical assessments of optical suppliers, including next-generation technologies, material systems, packaging solutions, and quality/reliability.

- Perform design and process reviews and audits to ensure design robustness, quality, and manufacturing readiness.

- Own the quality, reliability, and manufacturability of optical sub-modules/daughter cards and optical transceivers from design phase to end-of-life.

- Assess business-impacting issues and drive product/component failure analysis, containment, and corrective actions.

Minimum Qualifications:

- 8+ years of relevant experience in optics, specifically in opto-electronics or optical materials.

- Degree in Optical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a similar field.

- Demonstrated understanding of design, working principles, physics, and failure modes of optical sub-assemblies.

- Proven experience in reliability engineering, quality metrics, and resolving design/manufacturing reliability issues.

- Demonstrated ability to work within a cross-functional environment and manage external suppliers.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Ability to troubleshoot optical device reliability and assembly process issues.

- Experience in 8D or model-based problem solving.

- Knowledge of statistical process control and facility with data analysis.

- Proficiency in optical component and semiconductor failure analysis techniques.

- Strong communication, project management, and influencing skills.

## Skills

### Required
- Optical Engineering
- Physics
- Materials Science
- Reliability Engineering
- Quality Metrics

### Nice to have
- Troubleshooting
- 8D Problem Solving
- Statistical Process Control
- Data Analysis
- Optical Component Failure Analysis

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