Principle System Integration Engineer
About The Position
Coherent is a global leader in lasers, engineered materials and networking components. 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. It's an exciting opportunity to work for a company that offers stability, longevity and growth. Come Join Us!
Requirements
- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optics, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years in technical marketing, customer engineering, systems engineering, or technical program management for optical transceivers, networking, or datacenter hardware.
- Strong working knowledge of optical module qualification, firmware and system bring-up, CMIS, telemetry or DDM, power and thermal trade-offs, and switch or NIC interoperability.
- Proven ability to influence hyperscale customers and lead cross-functional teams across R&D, operations, quality, and external partners to close urgent technical issues.
- Excellent communication and program leadership: concise executive updates, clear decision options, and data-driven problem solving.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting 800G or 1.6T qualification, or similar high-speed optical products with hyperscale customers, is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical engagement with hyperscale AI/cloud networking infrastructure, networking, qualification, and sourcing teams to align product configuration, performance targets, telemetry needs, and sample plans.
- Drive readiness before customer shipment by coordinating demo hardware or EVB, reference firmware, interoperability coverage, tolerance testing, corner-condition calibration, and proactive system-level verification.
- Own cross-functional issue resolution for firmware and system integration, CMIS interpretation, power and thermal limits, optical performance, telemetry, and manufacturing issues; ensure fast response and closure plans.
- Coordinate with switch, NIC, and system vendors and internal product lines to remove interoperability blockers and improve first-pass qualification success at customer.
- Provide clear executive updates, risk registers, and trade-off recommendations covering schedule, capacity, yield, BOM diversity, and customer commitments.
- Build long-term trust with customer engineering leaders through regular onsite and offsite reviews and hands-on support during bring-up, qualification, and ramp.
Benefits
- competitive compensation program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
