Photonics Technical Marketing Engineer

Arista; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Arista Networks is seeking a Technical Marketing Engineer - Photonics to join the Hardware Product Management team. You will define deployment use cases for optical interconnects, develop configuration tools, and support conference demonstrations while collaborating with Sales, Systems Engineering, and PLM.

Strong scripting, testing, and lab skills are essential. Ideal candidates have advanced degrees in electrical/computer engineering or physics, with PhD in photonics and MBA preferred, plus 5+

Qualifications

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or a related technical field is required.
• PhD in photonics and/or MBA is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define use cases for optical interconnect deployment across product generations.
• Create tools and documentation for deployment configurations and mixed rate interconnects.
• Support conferences with configuration, setup and demonstrations.
• Write Python-based test automation and perform lab experiments.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and operations teams to align test systems with production goals.

Skills

Written communication

Presentation skills

Python scripting

Lab troubleshooting

Curiosity

Education

Master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Physics

PhD in photonics (preferred)

MBA (preferred)

Tools

OTDR

OSA

BERT

Power meters

Oscilloscopes

Wireshark

Ixia

Spirent

Job description

Arista Networks is seeking a Technical Marketing Engineer - Photonics to join the Hardware Product Management team. You will define deployment use cases for optical interconnects, develop configuration tools, and support conference demonstrations while collaborating with Sales, Systems Engineering, and PLM.

Strong scripting, testing, and lab skills are essential. Ideal candidates have advanced degrees in electrical/computer engineering or physics, with PhD in photonics and MBA preferred, plus 5+