Meet the Team:

Join the Acacia team, which takes pride in providing and fostering a collaborative environment to ensure success and personal growth. The Acacia Communications team designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for the 100G, 400G, 1T bit speed and beyond fiber optic transmission market deployed in data centers, metros, long-haul, and ultra-long-haul telecommunication networks. You will collaborate with our entire R&D teams (e.g., DSP, ASIC, Optics, Software, Photonics, and Hardware)

Your Impact:

Integrates technical expertise and broader industry knowledge to contribute to portfolio development, technical product strategy, and marketing campaigns in collaboration with Product Management. Applies specialist knowledge of company product capabilities and service offerings with in-depth analysis of market position to understand the competitive landscape, including specific features or use cases the competition excels at or is weak at. Works closely with Product Management, Product Development, Product Design (UX), Customer Experience (CX) and Sales teams to create or refine products designed to address customer needs and/or expand market share and validates early product definitions with customers. Champions customers on technical product functionality and participates in product demonstrations and forums, during product launch and throughout the product lifecycle. Develops training materials and product specification documentation to support partners/field/sales team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Has end-to-end technical ownership for multiple products and solutions
• Contributes to technical strategy development for own product portfolio
• Leverages deep customer and market knowledge to improve and innovate on existing products or solutions
• Participates in the definition of current and next generation technologies and/or products, considering larger scope functionalities and latest trends
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to review complex product architectural documentation and define new product features and customer requirements
• Leads technical discussions during sales and business development efforts in order to educate customers/partners on technology and solution capabilities
• Educates and influences the design of customer networks and their deployment
• Regularly engages with customers/partners and other stakeholders (e.g., Advisory Boards) to share key product information on industry-wide platforms (e.g., events, conferences, blackbelt academy)
• Leverages insights from competitive research and analysis to recommend corrective action (typically solution wide); socializes with broader cross-functional teams
• Develops advanced field/customer-facing collateral (e.g., technical white papers, deployment guides, methodology documents)
• Manages engagement with customers, partners, and sales team to ensure they are educated on new products and technology releases

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical or computer science or optical engineering with 8+ years of experience in optical communications, Master's degree with 6+ years of experience, or a PhD with 3+ years of experience or equivalent experience.

• Experience in OTN or optical network and Ethernet technologies

• Experience with managed electrical/optical components, inter and intra-function operations in switch and router platforms and Data Center Infrastructures.

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiar with CMIS, and various 3rd party host platforms and network management tools.

• Coding/scripting experience (e.g., C++, Python, and JSON).

• Direct experience with electrical transceiver applications, including backplane and cable communications

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $148,800.00 to $212,900.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$168,800.00 - $277,400.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$148,800.00 - $248,200.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.