Director, Optics Strategy and Partnerships

Responsibilities

• Leading the optics product and technology roadmap process, across all data center and networking platforms
• Customer Engagement: Work directly with customers and developers to understand use cases, difficulties, and requirements, ensuring our solutions meet and exceed their expectations
• Providing input and mentorship to architecture and development teams for optics and interconnects across switches, NICs and compute platforms
• Identifying and evaluating new technologies, innovations, and partner relationships to align with our strategic technology roadmap
• Thought Leadership: Produce informative technical content, including blogs, white papers, webinars, and tutorials, that emphasize the value and innovation of our optics and interconnect platforms
• What we need to see
• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Applied Sciences, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
• 15+ overall years of relevant industry experience, with 10 or more years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience and solid understanding of optical interconnects, silicon photonics, lasers, or closely related technologies, within high-performance data center settings
• Practical knowledge of Networking (switching & routing for Ethernet/Infiniband and/or compute fabrics), and Data Center infrastructure

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