# Optical Network Engineer Intern

**Company**: Acacia, a Cisco company
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $44,000.00 - $185,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an Optical Network Engineer Intern to join our team at Acacia, a Cisco company. As an intern, you will work at the intersection of customer needs and technical innovation, recreating real-world environments to troubleshoot and verify application issues. You will develop creative workaround solutions for product limitations and assist in the seamless integration of our modules into customer networks.

Responsibilities:

- Recreate real-world application environments to verify and troubleshoot customer issues

- Develop creative workaround solutions to address product limitations or bugs

- Collaborate with team members to build Python scripts that manage system features

- Integrate Acacia’s products into complex systems and networks for our customers

Minimum Qualifications:

- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program (Associate's or Bachelor's)

- Qualifying education should be in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

- Expected to continue enrollment in degree program following completion of the internship

- Previous experience with signal analysis, electronic design, or system integration in an academic, project, or professional capacity

- Proficiency in Python programming for automation or system management

Preferred Qualifications:

- Knowledge of optical communication concepts or Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications

- Experience utilizing electronic test equipment such as multimeters or signal generators

- Familiarity with the end-to-end hardware/software integration and troubleshooting process

- Understanding of modern physical layer networking technologies

- Experience with technical communication and fostering cross-functional team collaboration

Benefits:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- signal analysis
- electronic design
- system integration
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronic Engineering

### Nice to have
- optical communication
- Digital Signal Processing
- electronic test equipment
- hardware/software integration
- physical layer networking technologies
- technical communication

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