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PIC Development Technical Leader

United States

In an increasingly connected world, the pandemic has highlighted just how essential telecom networks are to keeping society running. The Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to connectivity, pushing the boundaries to deliver more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise​

Join Optical Networks division, where innovation meets scale in the AI-driven data center era. With the recent acquisition of Infinera, we’ve united two industry leaders to create an optical networking powerhouse—combining cutting-edge technology with proven leadership to redefine the future of connectivity.

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Your responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to a team of strong individual designers on the design and development of high performance tunable lasers, high speed devices and PIC integration
• Lead interactions within internal teams on design and qualification efforts
• Enhance and rigorously execute on design methodologies and processes
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand and define product requirements and plans
• Independently resolves issues and conquer technical challenges
• Provide inputs into product road maps

Your skills and experience

• MS/PhD in engineering, 10+ years’ experience in telecommunications, optoelectronics, or microelectronics development
• A strong understanding of optical components design, epitaxy, fabrication and component/system level tests.
• Strong background with semiconductor optical devices such as laser, detectors, modulators and other integrated waveguide devices.
• Ability to work with a large body of data and the necessary statistical analysis tools, and the ability to present the data and ideas to a diverse audience.
• The Job will require frequent collaborative interaction with fab, epitaxy, test and reliability engineering, packaging, product engineering, and system engineering groups
• Strong leadership and communication and engineering and project management skills

More information

Some of our benefits in US:

• Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
• Health and dental benefits
• Short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Life insurance, and AD&D – Company paid 2x base pay
• Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Assistance Plan
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program

The above benefits exclude students.

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Job Info

• Job CategoryApplied R&D
• Posting Date04/02/2026
• Degree LevelDoctor’s degree (e.g PhD)
• Job ScheduleFull time
• Job TypeExperienced
• Job Identification33864
• Will NSA/CAPS approval be required? (E.g., accessing a US Customer Network?)No
• Role TypePeople Manager
• Salary RangeUS Salary range: $202,883.33 - $376,783.33

\* Plus potential incentive/variable compensation for eligible roles

• Experience levelExperienced
• Locations255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, California, 94089-1015, US
• Regular or TemporaryRegular

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