# Firmware Engineer

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! About Lumentum At Lumentum, we’re building the tech behind the world’s fastest networks and most advanced systems. Our optical and photonic solutions power everything from AI and cloud computing to data centers, telecom, and advanced manufacturing. We’re a global team of innovators working where light meets technology, solving big challenges that keep the world connected and moving forward. If shaping the future of connectivity excites you, you’ll fit right in. Why You’ll Love This Role As a Firmware Engineer at Lumentum Operations LLC, you will be instrumental in developing, testing, and maintaining embedded software for our cutting-edge optical products. This role involves working across the full firmware development lifecycle to ensure high-performance and reliable operation of our devices. What You’ll Be Doing Design, develop, and debug firmware for new and existing optical modules, transceivers, and other Lumentum prod

- **Id**: 1120875
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lumentum-firmware-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T19:04:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T14:07:31Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 51
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4752
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible time off, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Lasers & Laser Systems, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 5264
- **Name**: Lumentum
- **Domain**: lumentum.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lumentum>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 49
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.816
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 40
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 99000
- **Max usd**: 190000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 664

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **FreeRTOS** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 51

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T19:04:37Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6 · green card filings: 1; Filings 12m: 6

## Liveness

- **Score**: 30
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.55
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 50
- **Expected fill days**: 40
- **Reasons**: conf:10, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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