The application window is expected to close on: 12/14/2026 This is an onsite role and will require working out of our Carlsbad, CA office location.
Meet the Team
The Silicon One team creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development—from design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world.
Your Impact
As a Photonic Test Engineer in our Optics group, you will play a critical role in developing/supporting the next generation component and packaging platform for Cisco's Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuits and chipsets. As a key member of the platform development team that is responsible for developing photonic components, tools and processes, you’ll devise, develop and execute engineering-test processes supporting novel optical components to be used in Cisco’s silicon photonics product offerings.
Engineered Testing & Failure Analysis: Devise, build, and execute engineering tests and complex failure analysis on optical components and assemblies for Cisco’s silicon photonics co-packaged optics platform, resolving issues via structured problem-solving methodologies.
Process Automation & Optimization: Recommend and implement continuous improvements in testing, assembly, and packaging processes, driving cycle time reduction and system automation to minimize manual operator intervention.
Diagnostics & Platform Lifecycle Management: Support specialized testing and leverage AI/ML data analytics for proactive problem detection, validating new components, tools, and processes from early development through production integration.
Cross-Functional & Global Execution: Partner with cross-functional hardware, software, and manufacturing teams to execute project plans with high velocity, quality, and predictability, traveling as needed to ensure global product deployment.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience.
Experience with photonic test
Preferred Qualifications
C# and SQL skills highly desired
Experience in hardware/software automation of photonics assembly/test.
Data analysis (SQL/JMP) in a semiconductor production environment
Knowledge of photonics, fiber optics and semiconductor lasers
Ability to travel internationally occasionally
Pourquoi Cisco?
Chez Cisco, nous révolutionnons la façon dont les données et les infrastructures se connectent et protègent les entreprises à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle et au-delà. Nous innovons sans crainte de manquer quelque chose depuis 40 ans pour créer des solutions qui optimisent la collaboration entre les humains et la technologie dans les mondes physiques et numériques. Ces solutions offrent aux clients une sécurité, une visibilité et des analyses inégalées sur l’ensemble de l’empreinte numérique.
Alimentés par la profondeur et l’étendue de notre technologie, nous expérimenterons et créons des solutions significatives. Ajoutez à cela notre réseau mondial de personnes fonceuses et d’experts, et vous verrez que les possibilités de grandir et de bâtir sont illimitées. Nous travaillons en équipe, en collaborant avec empathie pour réaliser de très grandes choses à l'échelle mondiale. Parce que nos solutions sont partout, notre impact est partout.
Nous sommes Cisco, et notre puissance commence avec vous.
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