Optical Engineer, RTP, Test Automation and Optics NPI

The Meta Hardware Design and Release to Production (Hardware Design and Release to Production) team ensures that the hardware running in Meta's production fleet is stable, secure, performant, and delivers the most value. Within Within this organization, the Release to Production New Product Introduction (Release to Production NPI) team finds, debugs, and remediates hardware failure modes before certifying new platforms for mass production, and then sustains them across the deployed lifecycle.

We are looking for an Optical Engineer to drive optics validation within RTP-NPI - pairing deep optical-transceiver expertise with Python scripting skills to automate the testing that qualifies optical communications modules and to lead optical transceiver NPI programs end to end. In this role, you will develop optics test automation using Python scripts, drive hands-on NPI execution with vendors and ODMs through EVT/DVT/PVT to mass production, and contribute to optical networking standards and engage with ecosystem partners.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience 8+ years in development roles for optical networking hardware, with experience taking new optical products from development through volume production Demonstrated experience writing Python scripts to automate test and measurement, including instrument control, data acquisition, and data analysis in a lab environment.
• Experience developing and maintaining reusable test automation in a team setting Hands-on experience with high-speed optical and electrical test, test automation, and lab instrumentation
• Experience leading optical transceiver NPI programs with vendors and/or ODMs through EVT, DVT, PVT to MP Familiarity with data center network architecture, fleet health and sustaining concepts, and high-volume manufacturing test flows
• Willingness to work hands-on in the lab and to travel to vendor, ODM, and manufacturing sites as needed to support NPI builds
• Experience in creating or influencing product requirements documents, test plans, and data sheets
• Familiarity with additional languages where useful for test or analysis: C/C++ or MATLAB
• Track record of mentoring engineers, improving engineering standards and practices for test automation quality, and influencing without direct authority
• Experience using instrument-control libraries and APIs - SCPI / VISA, PyVISA, vendor APIs - to automate lab instruments including BERT, OSA, power meters, and scopes
• Deep knowledge of pluggable optical transceivers and form factors - QSFP-DD, OSFP, QSFP
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• Experience with version control - Git or Mercurial - for managing test code in collaborative environments
• Experience driving NPI milestones - EVT / DVT / PVT / MP - production-readiness reviews, and transferring test scripts and methods to contract manufacturers and ODM factory lines, including dual-ODM strategies
• Experience writing Python scripts to automate tests and measurements, with familiarity in debugging, code reuse and shared libraries, and writing clean, maintainable automation
• Ability to set technical direction across a multi-quarter NPI (New Product Introduction) program, define scope and requirements when they are initially unclear, and align cross-functional and external partners, including vendors, ODMs, TPMs, and Production Engineering
• Experience with advanced modulation formats and direct-detect and coherent systems - OOK, PAM-4, QPSK, 8-QAM, 16-QAM - and related concepts
• Data handling for test results: schema design, database persistence, dashboards, and statistical analysis of measurement data using Num Py, pandas, SQL or similar tools
• Expertise in optical test and measurement: BER / FEC, pre-FEC and post-FEC analysis, eye diagrams, TDECQ, OSNR, optical spectrum, and link budgets
• Experience with optical integration including InP PICs, silicon-photonic PICs, PIC-IC integration, and 3D optical packaging technologies