Hybrid Hardware Engineer – Optics

at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• Job title: Hardware Engineer – Optics
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $135,500 - $275,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Assembly, Switching
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sunnyvale, United States

About the role

• Optical Hardware Engineer for HPE focusing on specifications and testing of pluggable optical transceivers. Engage with vendors, develop test automation, and collaborate across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop pluggable optical/electrical transceiver and cable assembly specifications and requirements based on industry standards and MSAs, e.g. IEEE, OIF, SNIA SFF.
• Engage with optics transceiver vendors on HPE’s optics transceiver specifications and requirements for optical product definition.
• Creates optics module test plans to address verification requirements.
• Builds test stations using optical and electrical test equipment.
• Creates test automation software to execute tests and store results in database.
• Conducts performance characterization and qualification tests.
• Develop software to process data and distill results.
• Generate test reports.
• Work closely with Signal Integrity, System Hardware and Software engineering teams with optics integration in HPE routing/switching/security systems.
• Support HPE Customer Service teams with pluggable optics failure root cause analysis.
• Support external optics certification and interoperability with 3rd party networking equipment.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of optical transceiver module specification and test experience
• Experience in testing pluggable optics in switching and routing system platforms highly desirable
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience testing state of the art pluggable optics modules per current optical IEEE standards and industry MSA specifications
• Must have comprehensive knowledge of optical equipment, electrical equipment, and automation software used in the testing of optical modules and interfaces
• Ability to work on several projects simultaneously in a multidisciplinary team environment
• Strong interpersonal skills working in a mutually supportive team environment
• Must possess written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly process and present test results.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing
• Personal & Professional Development
• Unconditional Inclusion