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You will collaborate closely with the optical design, hardware, and manufacturing teams to calibrate, characterize, and troubleshoot next-generation photonics technologies that will drive tomorrow’s AI and HPC infrastructure. Hands-on experience with optical test instruments (e.g., optical spectrum analyzers, power meters, polarization controllers, bit-error-rate testers).

Lumilens

Optical Test Engineer

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Expertise across advanced optical interconnect architectures, including Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), Near-Packaged Optics (NPO), Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI), Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO), and emerging form factors (XPO). Proven track record of bringing up optical links and PIC-based subsystems alongside silicon, including root-cause debugging with PIC foundries, ELS vendors, and OSATs.

Etched AI

Optical Systems Engineer

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The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in optical transceiver operation, DSP configuration, and AI switch architectures—and thrives at the intersection of applications engineering, customer support, and system integration. Position Overview We are seeking a highly skilled System Application Engineer (Optical) to support next‑generation AI networking platforms and high‑speed optical interconnects.

Lead System Application Engineer (Optical)

Define system-level specifications and oversee the development of comprehensive end-to-end optical system models, including digital signal processing (DSP), drivers, transimpedance amplifiers (TIA), and optical components such as lasers, Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs), and photodetectors. You will provide technical leadership, overseeing the design, modeling, and optimization of high-speed optical links—spanning laser and modulator selection, receiver performance, fiber-coupling strategies, and system-level tolerance analysis—to deliver exceptional bandwidth, efficiency, and reliability.

Optical Systems Engineer Lead

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in optical transceiver operation, DSP configuration, and AI switch architectures—and thrives at the intersection of applications engineering, customer support, and system integration. Proven ability to partner with customers and internal teams to map emerging AI workloads to next‑generation optical and interconnect technologies, influencing roadmaps and design wins.

Systems Applications Engineer - Optical

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The position requires close collaboration with R&D and product design teams, manufacturing, suppliers, and customers to ensure laser components meet stringent optical, mechanical, and Telcordia reliability requirements. Molex possesses a rich heritage in the optical industry, delivering high-performance, field-proven optical solutions spanning components, modules, and fully integrated line cards.

Molex

Principal Laser Component Engineer - Optical Solutions

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This includes partnering with optical architects, electrical and signal integrity engineers, ASIC/FPGA teams, manufacturing engineers, validation engineers, and system software developers to define and implement module functionality that meets aggressive performance, power, reliability, and interoperability requirements. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the firmware infrastructure that enables module control, diagnostics, monitoring, configuration, and host communication for high-speed optical networking products used in AI, cloud, hyperscale, and data center environments.

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Super Micro Computer, Inc. or Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation is a premier provider of end-to-end green computing solutions for Enterprise IT, Datacenter, Cloud Computing, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro's advanced server Building Block Solutions® offers a vast array of modular, interoperable components for building energy-efficient,pplication-optimized, computing solutions. This broad line of products includes servers, blades, GPU systems, workstations, motherboards, chassis, power supplies, storage technologies, networking solutions and SuperRack® cabinets/accessories. Architecture innovations include Twin Architecture, SuperServer®, SuperBlade®, MicroCloud, Super Storage Bridge Bay (SBB), Double-Sided Storage™, Universal I/O (UIO) and WIO expansion technology all of which deliver unrivaled performance and value.

Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Sr Optical Transceiver Firmware Engineer

Operate under consultative direction with substantial authority, using in-depth analysis and subject matter expertise in highly advanced concepts, to resolve a diverse range of highly complex problems, independently determine strategies, modify approaches, and pursue actions that impact organizational operations or directions and achieve long-term goals. The group is responsible for validating the operation, maintenance, certification, and upgrading of large optic metrology tools located at LLNL, as well as supporting Department of Defense Technology customers with specialized optical metrology needs and R&D projects involving freeform optics.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Senior Optical Metrology Engineer

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We are a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent provides a comprehensive career development platform within an environment that challenges employees to perform at their best, while rewarding excellence and hard-work through a competitive compensation program.

Coherent Corp

Optical Transceiver Engineer

THE ROLE: As an Optical & SerDes Validation Engineer in the SerDes Technology team, you will collaborate with various Product Development Groups, Silicon Design, DFT, Packaging, and interface with key technology partners. This position focuses primarily on developing characterization and validation test solutions for optical links (co-packaged optics, optical interconnects) with additional exposure to electrical SerDes validation.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc

Optical SerDes Validation engineer

Work with mechanical, optical and electrical design engineers to modify and optimize mechanical layout and electrical layout as well as choose proper materials (metal, non-mental, ceramic, glass, epoxy, etc.) to minimize deformation and stress and meet requirements of both performance and reliability. The simulation includes predictions of temperature distribution as well as induced thermal stress and deformation and provide guidelines for optimization of product designs to meet specifications, alignment, and achieve high reliability.

Mechanical Simulation Engineer - Optical Solutions

Familiarity with Zemax/OpticStudio or Code V; experience designing high-power laser optics, ruggedized beam delivery, or beam directors is relevant. As a senior optical engineering specialist on a defense technology R&D team, you will lead optical design and investigations for autonomous directed-energy hardware.

Clera

Senior Optical Engineer, R&D

At this Senior level, the Firmware Engineer collaborate with Product Management, Hardware, Operations, and Field Application Engineering teams to drive transceiver products from concept through volume production. Supporting extreme data rates from 100 Mbps to 1.6 Tbps across long-haul distances up to 80km+, we deliver complete wavelength management and turnkey OEM solutions.

Senior or Principal Firmware Engineer - Optical Transceivers

This person will be responsible for designing, developing, simulating, optimizing, testing, and debugging innovative FPGA solutions and code with a focus on optical networking products and embedded controls. Create and maintain test plans, technical documents, reports, and presentations, generate engineering changes, release designs, evaluate vendors, analyze issues and determine root cause.

FPGA Engineer - Optical Solutions

You will blend industrial design expertise, human-centered design, and functional systems thinking to deliver intuitive, visually coherent, ergonomic, mechanically reliable, and premium-feeling interfaces for dense, thermally constrained environments. Our advanced optical, mechanical, electrical, and software design capabilities support the evolving needs of high-density, high-bandwidth, and flexible optical networks across telecom, datacom, hyperscale datacenters, artificial intelligence, and supercomputing.

Senior Industrial Product Design Engineer - Optical Solutions

This person will work with multi-discipline teams including: Sales and Marketing, Product Line Managers, PCB designers, electrical, mechanical and optical engineering teams. Supporting extreme data rates from 100 Mbps to 1.6 Tbps across long-haul distances up to 80km+, we deliver complete wavelength management and turnkey OEM solutions.

Senior Firmware Engineer - Optical Solutions

Continuous innovation in passive component function integration, miniaturization, and manufacturing automation, cutting edge WSS and amplify technology and comprehensive optical, mechanical, electrical and software integration capabilities enable us to serve the needs of high-density, high-bandwidth, and flexible optical networks. We are looking for a Test Engineer that will lead test development for high-speed fiber optic 800G/1.6T/3.2T transceiver characterization from early prototypes, engineering samples, EVT/DVT testing to pilot production test definitions.

Optical Transceiver Test Engineer

Experienced in working with customers and engineering team to effectively and successfully bring optical products through product life cycle from prototyping to volume production. Preferred experience of working in a fast paced optical or Si-photonics manufacturing environment, especially dealing with multiple projects of optical and opto-mechanical assemblies.

LightWorks Optical Systems

Senior Principal Optical Engineer

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Lead optical test platform hardware bring-up, electrical and optical characterization, and debugging using high-speed oscilloscopes, vector or performance network analyzers, signal generators, optical sampling scope, and electronic loads. Our platforms bring together high-speed silicon photonics, transmit and receive amplifiers, controller ASICs, Marvell digital signal processors, and embedded firmware to create highly integrated optical solutions.

Optical Engineer Jobs in Fremont, CA

Optical Test Engineer Lumilens

Optical Systems Engineer Etched AI

Lead System Application Engineer (Optical) Lumilens

Optical Systems Engineer Lead Lumilens

Systems Applications Engineer - Optical Lumilens

Principal Laser Component Engineer - Optical Solutions Molex

Sr Optical Transceiver Firmware Engineer Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Senior Optical Metrology Engineer Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Optical Transceiver Engineer Coherent Corp

Optical SerDes Validation engineer Advanced Micro Devices Inc

Mechanical Simulation Engineer - Optical Solutions Molex

Senior Optical Engineer, R&D Clera

Senior or Principal Firmware Engineer - Optical Transceivers Molex

FPGA Engineer - Optical Solutions Molex

Senior Industrial Product Design Engineer - Optical Solutions Molex

Senior Firmware Engineer - Optical Solutions Molex

Optical Transceiver Test Engineer Molex

Senior Principal Optical Engineer LightWorks Optical Systems

Optical Transceiver Engineer II-VI Optical Systems, Inc.

Senior Staff Hardware Engineer - Optical Marvell

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