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Alphabet · Sunnyvale, CA

# Staff Optical Validation Engineer, Platforms Infrastructure Engineering

Sunnyvale, CA, USA Senior individual contributor IT & Infrastructure 

Listed on Alphabet’s official careers site. Listed as of November 7, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there.
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## Job description

### Minimum qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a specialized field (e.g., Optics, Sensors, Audio/DSP, etc.), or equivalent practical experience. 6 years of experience in hardware engineering working on optical transceiver components. 3 years of experience in technical leadership. Experience testing, debugging, and troubleshooting hardware. About the job The Optical Validation Team is responsible for supporting the development, new product introduction (NPI), and post-production testing of optical transceivers, switches, and technologies that power Google Cloud Platforms.

We test new optical transceiver designs, unit, environmental, and system qualification of transceivers in a wide array of host networking and compute platforms, optical circuit switches (OCS), and transceiver component design at the wafer level. As a Staff Optical Hardware Validation Engineer, you'll play a key role in the development of Google Cloud network infrastructures. You’ll have leadership roles in driving the planning and test execution for novel and complex configurations of networking hardware.

You will collaborate closely with hardware and software teams to configure lab networks and test infrastructure that evaluate and characterize the performance of cloud computing and networking products. You will provide technical leadership to the optical validation team, improving test methodologies and practices, and ensuring clean and state-of-the-art lab capabilities to support the development and productization of optical solutions in Google data centers.

## At a glance
- Posted by the employer: Not stated
- First seen by OpenNash: Nov 7, 2026
- Last checked: Nov 7, 2026
- Listed for: Under a day
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA[Apply on Alphabet’s careers site →](https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/105036840045552326-staff-optical-validation-engineer-platforms-infrastructure-engineering)

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- Open jobs: 3,389
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- Tracked since: Aug 20, 2026

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