# Senior Commodity Manager – Silicon Photonics & Optical Components

POSITION OVERVIEW As the Senior Commodity Manager - Silicon Photonics & Optical Components, you will own the end-to-end strategic sourcing roadmap and supplier ecosystem for active III-V devices, precision micro-optics, and advanced passive optical sub-assemblies. In this role, you will partner closely with Optical Design, Advanced Packaging, Quality/Reliability, and Operations to commercialize and scale next-generation optical engines across 800G, 1.6T, Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), and Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) architectures. You will lead commercial and capacity governance for specialized, custom, and long-lead optical commodities, including Continuous Wave (CW) DFB lasers, Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOAs), Fiber Array Units (FAUs), micro-lenses, isolators, and thin-film bandpass filters. This position demands deep technical fluency in device physics, cleanroom fabrication, packaging yields, and bottom-up cost engineering. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Strategic Sourcing & Category Roadmaps Category Strategy: Define and execute multi-year global commodity strategies for active III-V devices (InP/GaAs lasers, SOAs) and passive optical sub-assemblies (FAUs, micro-optics, isolators,

- **Id**: 4219828
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/xscape-photonics-senior-commodity-manager-silicon-photonics-optical-components>
- **Role**: Semiconductors
- **Role family**: Semiconductors
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T21:55:07Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T04:15:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 14468
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Optical Communications, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 3862680
- **Name**: Xscape Photonics
- **Domain**: xscapephotonics.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/xscapephotonics>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.75
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T04:15:00Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T09:51:04Z

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