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Microsoft Optical Network Engineer - Fiber Cable Product 
Taiwan, Taoyuan City 
992948895

02.09.2025

Azure Fiber seeks an Optical Network Engineer to design, manage, and evaluate fiber and cable products, collaborating with R&D, Engineering, and Operations teams. The role supports both our Romsey facility and outsourced manufacturing partners. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining product specifications, utilizing databases and software workflows for product control, and applying data science and statistics to analyze product and process data, ensuring high-quality performance. Key duties involve root cause analysis, maintaining optical performance estimators for link budgets, developing and tracking product KPIs, and driving continuous improvement through data-driven optimization of fiber and cable solutions.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

  • Technical experience in network design, development, and automation
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field AND technical experience in network design, development, and automation.
    • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND technical experience in network design, development, and automation.

Other Requirements:

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
    • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

  • Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology,
    • OR related field.
Responsibilities
  • Documents the appropriate test requirements and improvements to be included in relevant hardware designs by applying an understanding of how moderately complex features or products work under a variety of customer scenarios.
  • Develops and implement data and statistical frameworks using programming language and relational database structures to manage products, identifying complex problems or flaws that may affect a feature or product design change.
  • Identifies possible solutions and brings them to the attention of other engineers or team leads, managing product changes through change requests.
  • Uses root cause analysis to identify complex problems or flaws that may affect a feature or product design change. Identifies possible solutions and brings them to the attention of other engineers or team leads.
  • Contributes input to a single project implementation schedule to deliver the hardware engineering aspects of a moderately complex feature or product. Escalates issues to management as necessary.
  • Implements and tracks product plans with minimal guidance. Provides recommendations to help develop comprehensive product plans (e.g., describe the user experience, enable customer/partner testing scenarios, allow for design reuse, are verifiable).
  • Identifies opportunities to affect downstream execution of projects by resolving issues and implementing design tradeoffs within scope (e.g., performance vs. reliability and manufacturing concerns).
  • Uses data and statistical analyses to make recommendations to optimize existing processes, or creates new processes that can be used by own team.Identifies common project risks (e.g., external supplier or partner delays, incomplete specs, or tool issues) at the outset of a project, and develops plans to address those risks.