# Optical Engineering Technical Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Vimercate
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €65,200.00 to €85,600.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Optical engineers at Cisco design and build the next generation of high-capacity optical communication systems, subsystems, and transmission components.

As an Optical Engineering Technical Leader, you will convert product requirements into technical design specifications and take accountability for the end-to-end design, testing, and validation of advanced optical transmission systems and subsystems.

Key responsibilities include:

- Driving medium-to-large technical features from concept through completion by selecting, qualifying, and integrating active and passive photonic components

- Leading and implementing multi-functional engineering initiatives spanning multiple global teams

- Analyzing lab testing outcomes and benchmarks to determine the root cause of complex technical challenges

The role requires:

- Proven hands-on laboratory experience performing optical measurements, characterization, and validation of optical building blocks

- Experience managing or collaborating with external manufacturing partners, ODM/JDM vendors, or component suppliers

- Professional working proficiency in English

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Photonics, Physics, Telecommunications, or a related technical subject area

Preferred qualifications include:

- In-depth technical familiarity with coherent optical engines, advanced transceivers, and multi-channel optical line system architectures

- Demonstrated experience collaborating with firmware and software engineering teams

- Strong critical thinking and root-cause problem-solving skills

The starting salary range for this position is €65,200.00 to €85,600.00.

## Skills

### Required
- optical engineering
- photonics
- electrical engineering
- telecommunications
- English

### Nice to have
- coherent optical engines
- transceivers
- multi-channel optical line system architectures
- firmware
- software engineering

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