# Optical Transport and Transceiver Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Vimercate
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €46,900.00 to €59,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You will work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment to develop next-generation optical transport and optical transceiver technologies within Cisco.

You will own the qualification of optical devices and assembly processes for Cisco's optical transport and optical transceiver products.

**Responsibilities:**

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

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

- Assess reliability risk, develop and execute qualification plans, and resolve technical issues.

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

- Partner with global supply management teams to develop commodity strategy and influence technology and supplier selection.

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

**Requirements:**

- MS or PhD in Optical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a similar field, preferably with a focus on opto-electronics, optical materials, etc.

- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in optics, specifically:

- Wavelength management (WLM) technology: design, assembly, and reliability of line cards, sub-systems, circuit packs, daughter cards, and their constituent sub-modules.

- Optical transceiver technology: design, assembly, and reliability of active and passive optical components and sub-assemblies.

- Solid understanding of the design, working principles, physics, reliability, and common failure modes of optical sub-assemblies, optical components, and semiconductors.

- Proven ability working in multi-functional teams and with external suppliers/partners.

- Good understanding of reliability engineering and quality metrics.

- Excellent communication, data presentation, and influencing skills.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Knowledge of optical component and semiconductor failure analysis techniques.

- Expertise in resolving optical device reliability issues, assembly process issues, design/manufacturing issues.

- Experience with 8D or model-based problem-solving methodologies.

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

The starting salary range for this position is €46,900.00 to €59,200.00.

## Skills

### Required
- Optical Engineering
- Physics
- Materials Science
- Wavelength Management
- Optical Transceiver Technology

### Nice to have
- Failure Analysis
- Problem-Solving Methodologies
- Statistical Process Control

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