Senior Optical Network Test Engineer – High-Speed Validation

Ll Oefentherapie; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle in Santa Clara, CA seeks an experienced hardware validation engineer to manage lab validation and testing of optical transceivers and high-speed networking platforms. You will own test procedures, perform system-level validation across BER/scaling tests, and collaborate with hardware, firmware, and manufacturing teams to ensure quality product delivery.

The role emphasizes building scalable validation frameworks, automating tests, and delivering clear technical reports with actionable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in optical transceiver testing, quality assurance, or a related field.
• Experience using optical test equipment, including optical spectrum analyzers (OSA), bit error rate testers (BERT), and optical power meters.
• Experience validating high-speed data transmission technologies, including 10G, 40G, 100G, 400G, 800G and 1.6T.
• Strong background in the validation and qualification of networking hardware, particularly Ethernet switches and other high-speed platforms.
• Hands-on experience testing and debugging optical modules, transceivers, and fiber-optic connections.
• Deep understanding of bit error rate analysis, link stability, and signal integrity.
• Experience developing test automation and scalable validation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Translate component-level requirements into clear testable acceptance criteria.
• Contributes data on field performance and inventory health to roadmap discussions.
• Documents environmental and operational constraints for site and region use.
• Executes qualification plans for routers, switches, optics (e.g., 100/400/800G), OLS, timing, and cabling.
• Performs interoperability testing across vendors and software versions; logs and triages defects.
• Validates performance metrics (throughput, BER/FEC, latency, power draw) against targets.
• Collects price/power/thermals data to support make/buy and SKU selection decisions.
• Runs repeatable test procedures and captures objective evidence for audits.
• Prepares release packets (test results, known issues, mitigations) for operational handoff.
• Maintains dashboards for failure modes, MTBF/FRU rates, and burn-in results.

Skills

Optical transceiver testing

High-speed data transmission

Networking hardware validation

BER analysis

Test automation

Tools

OSA

BERT

Optical power meters

Job description

Oracle in Santa Clara, CA seeks an experienced hardware validation engineer to manage lab validation and testing of optical transceivers and high-speed networking platforms. You will own test procedures, perform system-level validation across BER/scaling tests, and collaborate with hardware, firmware, and manufacturing teams to ensure quality product delivery.

The role emphasizes building scalable validation frameworks, automating tests, and delivering clear technical reports with actionable