# Staff Optical Validation Engineer, Platforms Infrastructure Engineering

About the job The Optical Validation Team is responsible for supporting the development, new product introduction (NPI), and post-production testing of optical transceivers, switches, and technologies that power Google Cloud Platforms. We test new optical transceiver designs, unit, environmental, and system qualification of transceivers in a wide array of host networking and compute platforms, optical circuit switches (OCS), and transceiver component design at the wafer level. As a Staff Optical Hardware Validation Engineer, you'll play a key role in the development of Google Cloud network infrastructures. You’ll have leadership roles in driving the planning and test execution for novel and complex configurations of networking hardware. You will collaborate closely with hardware and software teams to configure lab networks and test infrastructure that evaluate and characterize the performance of cloud computing and networking products. You will provide technical leadership to the optical validation team, improving test methodologies and practices, and ensuring clean and state-of-the-art lab capabilities to support the development and productization of optical solutions in Google da

- **Id**: 3876996
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/google-staff-optical-validation-engineer-platforms-infrastructure-engineering>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T15:42:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T22:49:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4151
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Operating Systems, Video & Photo Sharing

## Company

- **Id**: 82
- **Name**: Google
- **Domain**: google.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/google>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 134
- **Ghost share**: 0.045
- **Stale share**: 0.739
- **Repost share**: 0.045
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Unix** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Management years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T16:41:40Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8,371 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 8371

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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