Senior Optical Network Engineer

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Austin, TX +1

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 understanding optical cables and transceivers, troubleshooting, and automation/programming skills to support AI/ML and HPC workloads at the physical and protocol layers.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. 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.).
  3. Serve as the escalation point for event remediation and lead post-event root cause analysis.
  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 level understanding of optical cables of various types (patch cords, shuffle, bulk/trunk etc.)
  • high speed optical transceivers for interconnects
  • troubleshooting
  • automation/programming skills

Nice to have

  • RDMA cluster network architecture
  • OCI standards
  • MPOs
  • dashboards build