Minimum Qualifications
Proven hands-on laboratory experience performing optical measurements, characterization, and validation of optical building blocks using standard optical test instrumentation.
Experience managing or collaborating with external manufacturing partners, ODM/JDM vendors, or component suppliers.
Professional working proficiency in English (written and spoken) for international technical collaboration.
Bachelor's degree or any higher education in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Photonics, Physics, Telecommunications, or a related technical subject area.
Preferred Qualifications
In-depth technical familiarity with coherent optical engines, advanced transceivers, and multi-channel optical line system architectures.
Demonstrated experience collaborating with firmware and software engineering teams to translate optical sub-system behaviors into system-level control features.
Strong critical thinking and root-cause problem-solving skills to investigate and resolve complex, multi-domain hardware and firmware anomalies.
Proactive technical leadership and assertiveness to align multi-functional and multi-site teams across global time zones.
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. The starting salary range posted for this position is €65,200.00 to €85,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
For non-sales roles, employees may also be eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
