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Conduct comprehensive testing of DS-3, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192 circuits using Bit Error Rate Testers (BERTs), Optical Time-Domain Reflectometers (OTDRs), Optical Power Meters, and other precision optical test equipment. Responsibilities include performing site surveys to assess infrastructure readiness; installing, provisioning, and commissioning equipment; and executing turnup and testing of advanced networking technologies.

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About Lumen Lumen connects the world. We are igniting business growth by connecting people, data and applications – quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Together, we are building a culture and company from the people up – committed to teamwork, trust and transparency. People power progress. We’re looking for top-tier talent and offer the flexibility you need to thrive and deliver lasting impact. Join us as we digitally connect the world and shape the future. The Role Lumen is looking for a Senior Engineer with demonstrated expertise in technical writing and documentation. This role demands a strong command of written communication, especially in developing Methods & Procedures (M&Ps), and detailed technical job aides. The ideal candidate brings precision, clarity, and an ability to translate complex engineering processes into comprehensive, actionable documentation. This role involves extensive inside plant activities, requiring hands-on expertise in high-performance network systems. Responsibilities include performing site surveys to assess infrastructure readiness; installing, provisioning, and commissioning equipment; and executing turnup and testing of advanced networking technologies. The ideal candidate will demonstrate technical knowledge of DWDM systems, Packet Optical Transport Networks (OTN), SONET architecture, and router environments. Success in this role requires a combination of sharp analytical judgment, strong documentation habits, precision, and practical engineering experience within compliance-driven federal programs. The Main Responsibilities •Create and maintain clear, scalable technical documentation tailored for federal environments, including: Standardized Workflows Methods & Procedures (M&Ps) Technician-friendly Job Aides •Develop diagrams, schematics, and equipment layouts using tools such as Microsoft Visio •Perform detailed site surveys to evaluate infrastructure conditions and project feasibility •Produce Engineering Design Packages (EDPs) for inside plant (ISP) installations, ensuring alignment with Lumen’s technical proposal standards and federal requirements •Ensure documents are updated post-deployment and reflect “as-built” conditions •Collaborate with federal stakeholders, subcontractors, vendors, and internal teams to translate mission requirements into technical solutions •Conduct comprehensive testing of DS-3, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192 circuits using Bit Error Rate Testers (BERTs), Optical Time-Domain Reflectometers (OTDRs), Optical Power Meters, and other precision optical test equipment •Ability to execute turnup and testing of DWDM systems, Packet Optical Transport Networks (OTN), SONET platforms, and high-performance router networks Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities •Expert-level technical writing skills with ability to develop and edit clear, comprehensive documentation •Proficiency in using documentation tools such as Microsoft Word, Visio, Excel, and diagramming software for technical schematics and procedural guides •Strong communication and interpersonal skills, especially in collaborating across remote and on-site teams. •Excellent project coordination and multitasking abilities in fast-paced field environments •Familiarity with DWDM, SONET, OTN, and packet optical transport systems •Demonstrated hands-on experience with Inside Plant (ISP) provisioning, testing, and turn-up •Ability to interpret and apply engineering standards, perform federal guidelines, and network design principles using alternative analysis, and sound judgement What We Look For in a Candidate Security Requirements •Must be a U.S. Citizen •Eligible to obtain and maintain security clearance up to Top Secret (TS) level •Applicants selected will undergo a government security investigation to determine initial clearance eligibility Physical Requirements •Ability to work in both office and field environments, including potential exposure to varying weather conditions •Prolonged periods of sitting, standing, walking, and operating computers may be required •Must be capable of lifting and carrying equipment up to 75lbs. Education and Experience •Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience (8+ years in telecommunications operations & maintenance, installation, and engineering) •Skilled in creating and revising Engineering Design Plans (EDPs) and As-Built drawings •Strong understanding of telecommunications installation standards •Experienced in using telecommunications test equipment, with comprehensive knowledge of testing operations, procedures, and best practices • Willingness to travel up to 75% across the continental U.S. • Valid driver’s license and ability to pass federal security screening • Owns outcomes for high-impact and multifaceted projects and is routinely entrusted with pivotal decision-making responsibilities Compensation This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors. Location Based Pay Ranges: $82,969 - $110,625 in these states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WI, WV, and WY. $87,117 - $116,156 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NC, NH, NV, OR, and RI. $91,266 - $121,688 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA. Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process. Learn more about Lumen's: + Benefits (https://jobs.lumen.com/global/en/benefits-statement) + Bonus Structure #LI-Remote Requisition #: 339486 Background Screening If you are selected for a position, there will be a background screen, which may include checks for criminal records and/or motor vehicle reports and/or drug screening, depending on the position requirements. For more information on these checks, please refer to the Post Offer section of our FAQ page (https://jobs.lumen.com/global/en/faq) . Job-related concerns identified during the background screening may disqualify you from the new position or your current role. Background results will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Equal Employment Opportunities We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, ancestry, citizenship, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic characteristic or information, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, family status, pregnancy, or other legally protected status (collectively, “protected statuses”). We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training. Disclaimer The job responsibilities described above indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not intended to include a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities for this job. Job duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on evolving business needs and conditions. In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Please be advised that Lumen does not require any form of payment from job applicants during the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings will be posted on our official website or communicated through official company email addresses. If you encounter any job offers that request payment in exchange for employment at Lumen, they are not for employment with us, but may relate to another company with a similar name. Application Deadline 08/30/2025

At Lumen, talent matters. We place employees with the greatest potential in the most impactful roles by providing you with the tools to level up in your career. We are a global company of approximately 38,000 professionals dedicated to unleash the world's digital potential. Lumen frees businesses from the legacy communication experiences holding them back today by making IT environments more user-friendly and intuitive. Our experience-first approach to networking, edge cloud and cybersecurity connects people, data and apps quickly, securely and effortlessly. We ignite business growth and accelerate innovation for 8 of the 10 most valuable brands in the world. With 450,000 route fiber miles serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure global platform for applications and data to help businesses, the government, and communities deliver amazing experiences.

Lumen

Senior Engineer - Public Sector

Gap Inc.

Candidates will also have experience scoping developing and implementing strategies and plan in partnership with internal business teams, external vendors, and network design/engineering, and other cross-functional teams to develop strategies for integrating new technologies and to better support existing technologies across the operational fleet. 7+ years of experience with telecommunication networks in the terrestrial optical transport networks including DWDM, network infrastructures, optical testing, optical measurement principles, structured cabling and experience with photonic layer.

Summary: Meta is looking for a forward thinking Network Operations Engineer to support delivery of field services as part of our Edge and Network Services (ENS) team. Someone who possesses subject matter expertise in hyperscale DC structured cabling, fiber connectivity solutions, and IP networking. Candidates will also have experience scoping developing and implementing strategies and plan in partnership with internal business teams, external vendors, and network design/engineering, and other cross-functional teams to develop strategies for integrating new technologies and to better support existing technologies across the operational fleet. An objective for this role is to understand technical drivers for the business, organize strategies to ensure the operational supportability to meet those business needs, and to represent ENS across stakeholder groups to ensure those critical projects are achieved. The team improves operational efficiency and reliability of one of the most advanced and rapidly evolving networks in the world. The right candidate will possess experience in a fast moving organization and enjoy digging into operational pain points in order to implement the process enhancements and automation solutions to solve them. The ideal candidate loves identifying root causes in complex systems and quickly learning new domain expertise and technologies. Required Skills: Network Engineer, Foundation and Support Responsibilities: 1. Incident Response: Drive work investigating complex technical and process issues on a global scale spanning multiple reliability, security, and continuity disciplines for infra during major incidents/site events (SEVs) on edge, caching, and network infrastructure. This will require you to work closely and effectively with a variety of cross functional teams, managed service providers, and third-party vendor partners 2. Change Management: You will be integral to identifying problems and implementing effective change within security & business continuity issues that affect the network, edge, and Infrastructure at Meta. This may include driving initiatives regarding improvements to existing tools & processes and providing feedback on new policies, practices, procedures in order to scale with the rapid expansion of the Meta platform and customer base 3. Operational Experience: As an operations practitioner within the ENS team you will be expected to drive operational efficiency in everything we do. In this role you will directly or indirectly oversee a large contingent workforce responsible for delivering roadmapped projects and executing on recurring operational activities. As such, identifying improvement opportunities across policies, processes, and procedures is essential to improve efficiency and quality of the activities. You will optimize service delivery with a keen focus on standards compliance across the network 4. Team Leadership: Set team goals and work globally with cross-functional teams within and outside the organization to deliver business outcomes predictability across global sites. This also includes analysis around operational datasets to detect and inform the prioritization of problems to resolve. This often culminates in the creation and communication of aligned team projects, programs, and roadmaps 5. Risk Management: Work with partner teams to design and implement aligned processes that identify and manage data and asset protection risks (i.e, security and privacy gaps, Business Continuity vulnerabilities), as well as operations continuity issues across the network 6. Information and Data Assurance: Ensure relevant operational process, procedure, and policy documentation is effectively managed and the data required to support operations is complete and accurate in systems 7. Automation: Be heavily involved in driving the team to analyze operational events in order to identify new automation opportunities and help us achieve our vision of all Tier-1 faults in the network being fully remediated by software. This will include helping others understand our requirements and drive their roadmaps, in some cases, directly implementing light weight solutions in code 8. Data Measurement: As an operations practitioner supporting our network, you will be expected to drive quality into the metrics we report to assist us in focusing on the areas that give us the best return on investment. This could include measurement and analysis of our escalation issues, fault/event trends, infrastructure capacity, and vendor performance failures. You should have the experience to formulate the right metrics and definitions of success to drive quality, efficiency, cost, and timeliness, and evolve these over time to match changes to the infrastructure and business requirements 9. Communication: provide clear and effective communication around personal and team goals, progress, outcomes, and lessons learned across assigned scope 10. Travel: International and Domestic travel may be required 25% of the time and up to 50% of time depending on needs of the business Minimum Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications: 11. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience 12. Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta 13. 7+ years of work experience operating, deploying, and designing large-scale network, optical, and/or physical layer infrastructure 14. Hands-on experience with a variety of optical/network communication equipment including optical amplifiers, coherent transponders, network/fiber/copper test gear and other WDM equipment as well as associated tools and test equipment 15. 7+ years of network operations experience while supporting large-scale service provider, datacenter, and/or enterprise network infrastructure 16. Communication experience: demonstrated skills to effectively engage with hardware vendors, service providers, and colocation facility vendors globally and effectively translate performance issues into technical engineering requirements 17. Experience in providing technical guidance to external vendors 18. Intermediate subject matter expertise in Network Services, including topology, traffic analysis, hardware platform, and architectures 19. 7+ years of experience with telecommunication networks in the terrestrial optical transport networks including DWDM, network infrastructures, optical testing, optical measurement principles, structured cabling and experience with photonic layer 20. Subject matter expertise with physical infrastructure design: rack elevations, cable types, connector types, optic types, patch panels, and facility infrastructure 21. Familiarity with Enterprise and Service Provider network hardware platforms and architectures, including Cisco and Juniper routers/switches and Nexus data center switching hardware platforms 22. Experience with physical data center design: rack elevations, cabling, fiber optics, power/cooling, and facility infrastructure 23. Experience with network hardware platforms and architectures including Ciena, Infinera, Nokia, Arista, Cisco WDM Equipment Preferred Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications: 24. Experience moving technical or engineering programs and products from inception to delivery and experience articulating the impact using metrics 25. Direct leadership experience with global Network Operation environments and managing Service Level Agreements and continuous improvement against metrics at scale 26. Experience with purchasing, negotiating and end-to-end supplier management, such as managing global RFPs and contract negotiations 27. Advanced executive leadership communications experience Public Compensation: $133,000/year to $190,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits Industry: Internet Equal Opportunity: Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment. Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.

Network Engineer, Foundation and Support

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This role will support a Global Automotive OEM by using multiple AR/VR/XR tools to prepare and run PoC (Proof of Concept), Design Proposal review sessions, help Feature Exploration development and Vehicle Development Teams confirm items related to appearance, visibility, and usability to increase decision confidence, accelerate the development pace, and reduce costs such as travel time, rapid prototyping for multiple mobility products. Continuously improve virtual validation experience and toolset with new methods, hardware, and software, keeping current with industry trends and cutting-edge innovations.

<div class="content-intro">Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio (USA) with Engineering Centers in Pune, India and Yokohama, Japan, Goken is a global Engineering Services and Product Development company founded in 2004. We partner with OEMs and suppliers across the mobility space, as well as clients in non-mobility industries, to deliver innovative solutions and accelerate product development. At Goken, we embrace our motto of "Time to Innovate" by pushing boundaries, cultivating entrepreneurial thinking, and empowering individuals who thrive on tackling challenges, embrace fresh ideas, and are driven to create solutions that shape the future. This mindset fuels our mission and empowers our teams to solve complex problems, deliver measurable value, and move our clients and industries forward.Our Vision is to empower associates to drive innovation and lead meaningful change wherever it's needed, ensuring we stay ahead of the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow. Our Mission is to build trust that fosters greatness in our people, excellence in our clients, and positive impact in the communities we serve.Goken offers a competitive compensation structure and benefits that support professional growth and personal well-being. We also foster a culture built on high performance, collaboration, continuous improvement, and ongoing professional development.</div>Summary: This role will support a Global Automotive OEM by using multiple AR/VR/XR tools to prepare and run PoC (Proof of Concept), Design Proposal review sessions, help Feature Exploration development and Vehicle Development Teams confirm items related to appearance, visibility, and usability to increase decision confidence, accelerate the development pace, and reduce costs such as travel time, rapid prototyping for multiple mobility products.Responsibilities:<ul><li>Execute daily xR/VR/MR simulation requests, including setup, execution, and script generation </li><li>Support design reviews and simulation events for engineering teams </li><li>Maintain xR system readiness (hardware & software) </li><li>Develop and maintain process documentation, system schematics, and knowledge guides </li><li>Assist with VR hardware/software research, integration, and troubleshooting </li><li>Collaborate with internal development teams and external vendors </li><li>Import data from Catia V5 and 3DX into other VR software using several formats, and apply color, materials, finishes, and shadows to the data as required by the review purpose. </li><li>Work with stakeholders to understand the purpose of each review, along with the scope and schedule. </li><li>Correlate closely with Physical Build and Technology Buck/prototype members to determine the best combination of physical/virtual elements to achieve review targets. </li><li>Choose the appropriate software and method to achieve review session targets. </li><li>Prepare the data, options, controls, menus, physical bucks, and object trackers for efficient local/global multi-site reviews. </li><li>Continuously improve virtual validation experience and toolset with new methods, hardware, and software, keeping current with industry trends and cutting-edge innovations</li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>Minimum Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of industry experience using & implementing digital validation tools (i.e AR/VR/XR tools, etc) to build human level simulated environments </li><li>Education with the following specialties preferred: Computer Science, Graphics Design, Mechanical, Mechanical Technology, Aerospace, Automotive. </li><li>Experience with Software and tools such as Catia V5/V6/3DX, Autodesk VRED, IC.IDO, Unity, Unreal, Steam, Python coding/scripting, Optical tracking systems (e.g., ART), other AR/VR/XR tools.</li><li>Cinema or Stage set design experience is a plus. </li><li>Exposure to Camtasia or equivalent video editing tools is a plus. </li><li>Ability to interpret detailed schedules and prioritize activities. </li><li>Ability and motivation to learn new technical skills with little direction or oversight. </li><li>Creative mindset with the ability to visualize full sensory validation environments with the capacity to lay out the steps for implementation. </li><li>Travel to client sites required.</li></ul><div class="content-conclusion">Goken is committed to fostering a respectful, inclusive, and engaging workplace across all global locations. We value diversity and provide equal opportunities for career growth and professional development, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.</div>

Goken

Engineer - Virtual Validation (AR/VR/XR) Tools

GreenHouseAPI

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