Senior Optical Dc Engineer

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · BENGALURU, KARNATAKA, India

This role supports the design, deployment, and operations of large-scale global Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), focusing on high-speed fiber optic network fabric links and systems for RDMA cluster networks. It involves deep understanding of optical cables and transceivers at the L0/L1 physical and L2 protocol layers, troubleshooting, and automation. The role collaborates with various engineering teams to ensure build quality and validation for AI data centers, provides break-fix support, develops automation scripts, and supports dashboards for link-level issue identification. It requires participation in AI DC deployment rotations with travel.

What you'd actually do

  1. Primarily focused on the development and support of high-speed fiber optic network fabric links and systems through a combination of a deep level understanding of optical cables of various types (patch cords, shuffle, bulk/trunk etc.) and high speed optical transceivers for interconnects for leaf-spine RDMA cluster networks at the L0/L1 physical layer1 and L2 protocol level coupled with troubleshooting and automation/programming skills.
  2. Collaborate with engineers from L1 optical engineering team, network design, delivery and AI Ops, DC Ops, and DC build teams and program/project managers to develop milestones and deliverables validating optical cabling and optical transceivers build quality and validation in the AI data center builds to the OCI standards for RDMA backend networks.
  3. Provide break-fix support for optical links to meet RDMA cluster performance criteria (pre-FEC BER, Rx power, FEC bin, BOL and EOL margins etc.).
  4. Frequently develops MPOs or scripts to automate routine tasks for team and business units to improve quality of builds.
  5. Support dashboards build with requirements to represent data at L1 layers and device roles that help identify link level issues, anomalies such as link flaps and link downs.

Skills

Required

  • Deep understanding of optical cables (patch cords, shuffle, bulk/trunk)
  • Deep understanding of high-speed optical transceivers
  • Knowledge of L0/L1 physical layer networking
  • Knowledge of L2 protocol level networking
  • Troubleshooting skills for optical links
  • Automation and programming skills (e.g., MPOs, scripts)
  • Experience with RDMA cluster networks
  • Experience with AI/ML and HPC workloads
  • Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
  • Experience with data center network builds
  • Experience with break-fix support for optical links
  • Experience supporting dashboards for network monitoring
  • Experience with data center build standards
  • Experience with optical cabling and optics transceiver installation

Nice to have

  • Experience developing new procedures
  • Experience as an escalation point for event remediation
  • Experience leading post-event root cause analysis
  • Experience with international/domestic travel for build sites quality control

What the JD emphasized

  • high-speed fiber optic network fabric links
  • optical cables
  • optical transceivers
  • L0/L1 physical layer
  • L2 protocol level
  • AI data center builds
  • RDMA cluster performance criteria
  • automate routine tasks

Other signals

  • AI/ML advancements
  • RDMA cluster networking
  • high-speed fiber optic network fabric links
  • optical cables
  • optical transceivers
  • L0/L1 physical layer
  • L2 protocol level
  • troubleshooting
  • automation/programming skills
  • AI data center builds