Description
The Silicon One team at Cisco creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally.
As a Photonic Packaging Engineer in Cisco's elite Optics group, you will engineer the very foundation of Silicon Photonics, crafting advanced packaging platforms and cutting-edge electromechanical assemblies that power global networks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop next-generation packaging platforms, novel subassemblies, and electromechanical prototypes for Cisco's Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuits and chipsets.
- Automate assembly systems and apply AI/ML and analytics to optimize high-volume manufacturing, simulate edge cases, and enhance diagnostic usability across the product lifecycle.
- Partner with cross-functional hardware, software, and manufacturing teams globally to drive project delivery, support international deployments, and mentor engineers on AI-assisted tools.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience
- Hardware/process automation experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in hardware/software automation of photonics assembly/test.
- Experience with machine vision in an automation environment.
- Data analysis (SQL/JMP) in a semiconductor production environment
- Software development using C# on .NET
- Knowledge of photonics, fiber optics and semiconductor lasers
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
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer