Cisco Senior Systems Engineer 

United States, Massachusetts 

31674248

Acacia Communications designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for the 100G, 400G, 1T bit speed and beyond for fiber optic transmission market deployed in data center, metro, long-haul and ultra-long haul telecommunication networks.

The Senior Systems Engineer is a liaison between our customers and our Engineering groups. You will be working along side of System Application Engineering (SAE) as well as R&D groups to support and address any technical questions from our customers, which include network equipment manufacturers, hyperscalers and internet service providers.

You will influence future product feature development and current product modifications.

• Provide technical guidance, educate and partner with our customers to ensure successful application of Acacia products.
• Work closely with SAEs to provide the vital technical support for customer Engineering lab and deployed system field issues.
• Advocate and communicate internally for customer product needs as well as Standard’s based features.
• Author application notes, product specifications and Python scripts and contribute to technical presentations and marketing documents.
• Provide full life cycle technical support for Acacia products in the areas of HW and SW. This includes future roadmap discussions, alpha sample test support, host card development, system verification, and field issue resolution.

You will collaborate with our entire R&D teams (e.g. DSP, ASIC, Optics, Software, Photonics and Hardware)

You are enthusiastic about solving system level challenges in the all things related to optical transceivers. You are detail oriented, high energy and the drive to get things done. You love to solve difficult problems and derive tremendous satisfaction in helping others.

• BSEE degree with 7+ years of industry experience in optical communications or an MS degree with 4+ years of industry experience in optical communications or a PhD with 2+ years of industry experience in optical communications
• 3+ years of industry experience in OTN and/or Ethernet
• Coding/scripting skills

• Direct experience with electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications
• Python
• Customer facing experience
• Knowledgeable in coherent optical systems

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).