Principal Engineer, Hardware Design - Optics
Celestica
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
CloudSwitching
About the role
- Member of the Engineering team in larger Hardware Platform Development team.
- Technical team leader providing detailed feature/functional specifications, system architecture, design and qualification for complex fiber optics transceiver modules and systems primarily 10 Gbit/s – 100 Gbit/s.
- Collaborate within R&D hardware and software teams on datacenter and campus-wide network switch connectivity using Fiber Optics components.
- Perform optical and electrical characterization and qualification of high-speed pluggable optical transceivers and copper cables.
- Work closely with signal integrity and electrical hardware teams to debug, test and bring-up Ethernet switching hardware supporting optical transceivers and cables.
- Develop, automate, and document new test procedures for qualification and support NPI process.
- Provide engineering expertise and onsite support for interoperability demonstrations and external certification with 3rd party networking equipment.
- Support internal product development, qualification, testing efforts, and vendor selection/management.
Requirements
- 10+ years’ experience in fiber optic communication and Hardware product development.
- Experience and familiarity with vendor base for Optical Products.
- Strong skills in developing Fiber Optic modules such as SFP+/XFP/CFP/QSFP.
- Perform optical and electrical characterization and qualification of high-speed pluggable optical transceivers and copper cables.
- Work closely with Engineering teams in new product introduction (NPI) process.
- Develop, automate, and document new test procedures for qualification of pluggable optical transceivers or cables.
- Work with signal integrity and electrical hardware teams to debug, test and bring-up Ethernet switching hardware.
- Provide engineering expertise and onsite support for interoperability demonstrations.
- Support external optics certification and interoperability with 3rd party networking equipment.
- Help formulate vendor selection, management, and procurement strategy.
- Familiarity with high-speed pluggable transceiver form-factors and MSAs.
- Detailed experience with high-speed electrical and optical test equipment.
- Highly self-motivated with a strong multidisciplinary background.
- Demonstrated strong problem solving and analytical skills; ability to work independently or in a team.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering (Master’s preferred).