Opto-Mechanical Product Engineer

What You'll Do

Optics Operations is an organization that enables and accelerates innovation to create an unrivaled customer experience & competitive advantage for Cisco through end-to-end operation leadership and product lifecycle management. In this role, you will be a key Optics Operations Engineering team member supporting the Cisco Optics Operations next generation product portfolio.

Responsibilities include the following:

• You will be responsible to perform detailed analysis to ensure product performance, reliability and manufacturability meets product specification.
• You will work in collaboration with Design Engineering supporting opto-mechanical engineering activities through the product design lifecycle.
• You will be responsible for managing opto-mechanical product BOM, component & process specification documentation.
• You will work in collaboration with Design Engineering to develop tooling & fixtures for optical transceiver design & assembly components.
• You will work in collaboration with Design Engineering teams to design, prototype, and fabricate the integration of opto-mechanical components into full transceiver module.
• You will drive the characterization of NPI & sustaining product yields including benchmark correlation to meet and/or exceed product cost targets
• You will be responsible for vendor management in support of but not limited to die-casting, plating, injection molding, etc.
• You will work in cooperation with Design Engineering teams to drive DFx for the integration of opto-mechanical device process and assembly.
• You will work in collaboration with development team to characterize solutions for optical stability, repeatability, & reliability through design of experiments to map opto-mechanical device performance to product specification

Who You'll Work With

You will be a member of the product engineering team that partners with a cross-functional team of engineers (Design, Technology & Quality & Test, etc.) to design and sustain optical transceiver components and modules throughout their product lifecycle.

Who You Are

You're a self-motivated, result oriented, and strong-minded engineer who embraces creativity and new ways of thinking to deliver innovative solutions. You thrive to earn the thrust of team members to deliver significant result.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science in Optical/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent educational background
• 2+ years of hands-on experience working with opto-mechanical design in high-speed optical transceiver products.
• Proven track record of transitioning products from NPI to High volume production through a Contract Manufacture partner.
• Knowledge with Finite Element Modeling & Simulation tools such as Comsol, Ansys, etc.
• Knowledge with complex data analytics using JMP, R, Minitab, etc.
• incorporating design for manufacturability (DFM) during product development
• Experience with product development tasks: Bill of Materials, opto-mechanical assembly, change management.
• Self-motivated, action focused, and results oriented
• Excellent communication skills and ability to summarize & articulate engineering findings.

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge with optical coupling alignment of opto-mechanical products using lasers, lenses, Fiber Array Unit (FAU), etc.
• Knowledge with optical assembly modeling tools such as Zemax Experience with optical design, solid state lasers, mounting of optical components, optical alignment & fixture design.
• Knowledge with Finite Element methods for optical waveguide design & analysis
• Knowledge with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) for optical coupling analysis
• Experience working with big data and necessary statistical analysis tools and the ability to present the data and ideas to stakeholders

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We're the Internet's optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it's not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We're helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We're helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other's backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we're committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

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