Optical - Hardware Test Development Engineer

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This team crafts manufacturing test solutions for cutting-edge Optical Transceiver products. We are at the very crossroads between Engineering development, Program Management, and Contract Manufacturing and thus in a unique position to influence cross-functional strategy through our expertise and innovation. We're a high-performance team with high transparency, high expectations, and a strong track record of successes.

Your Impact

Drawing from your industry experience, you'll lead NPI test development of assigned optical transceiver products through their lifecycle from engineering samples to sustaining mode both as a technical leader and individual contributor. You'll be an effective cross-communicator to outside teams, and a patient mentor for junior Test Engineers.

Job duties and responsibilities:

• Validation, characterization, and production test development of optical Transceiver products. Involvement in initial phases of NPI/design to drive DFT/DFM to meet yield/improve test coverage goals. Influence decisions affecting architecture, calibration, test flow and design-for-test during product design phase.

• Work cross functionally with marketing, design, quality assurance, product and applications engineering teams.

• Work with Product Engineering to monitor/sustain current product flow in production with offshore contract manufacturing ensuring that cost, delivery and yield goals are met.

• Collect and condense data from characterization, quality and production tests, analyze statistics, summarize results and set product test limits.

• Provide product debug and failure analysis support for RMA as needed and use results to drive continuous test improvement.

• 10+ yrs relevant industry experience with a B.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Systems, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or other relevant major.

• Experience with high-volume client-side optical transceiver testing and manufacturing

• Experience in programming test solutions using Python

• Experience with rack equipment such as BERT's, optical switches, DCA's, power meters, polarization scramblers, WSS's, and optical spectrum analyzers including communication protocols for automated control.

• Experience with statistical analysis tools such as JMP, Data Conductor, DataPower, or Power BI, proven use of such tools to tackle complex Test Engineering problems.

• MS Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Systems, Physics or other relevant major.

• Experience using source control platforms such as Perforce, Clear Case, etc.

• Experience with coherent optical transceiver testing.

• Experience in programming test solutions using NI LabView/TestStand

• Familiarity with revision control platforms and systems such as 'Agile' or 'Omnify'.

• In-depth knowledge of manufacturing workflows, GR&R, SPC, and process control-related statistical analysis

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Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.