# Optical Engineering Technical Leader

The application window is expected to close on: 11/22/2026Meet the Team Join a dynamic team dedicated to the development, qualification, manufacturing, and deployment of next-generation optical technologies for high-speed networking systems. We operate across both technology development and manufacturing execution, solving complex optical and high-speed signal integrity challenges. Our goal is to drive innovation in Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), Near-Packaged Optics (NPO), and silicon photonics to power the future of networking. Your Impact As an Optical Engineering Technical Leader, you will provide critical expertise in advancing our optical technology roadmap. You will develop strategies for system-level optical link validation and margin characterization, managing power and loss budgets. Your role involves defining technical requirements and tradeoffs for performance, power, thermal reliability, manufacturability, and cost in subsystems. You will work closely with contract manufacturers and optical suppliers to develop scalable manufacturing processes and drive the automation of optical and electrical measurements for high-volume manufacturing. Additionally, you will perform high-s

- **Id**: 4316439
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-optical-engineering-technical-leader>
- **Role**: Semiconductors
- **Role family**: Semiconductors
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Milpitas, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T16:21:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7084
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 284
- **Ghost share**: 0.063
- **Stale share**: 0.447
- **Repost share**: 0.106
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 171600
- **Max**: 245000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 245000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T16:21:53Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,384 · green card filings: 608; Filings 12m: 1384

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T18:18:59Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 245000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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