About this role
About the Role Corning is seeking a Sales Engineer to support strategic engagement with NVIDIA, focusing on Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) and advanced data-center connectivity solutions. The role partners with Corning’s PCS and Data Center Business Unit teams and collaborates with NVIDIA to enable system-level design, validation, and large-scale deployment of optical connectivity solutions. Based in the Bay Area, this role is highly customer-facing and critical to accelerating design wins and shaping next-generation PCS and data-center interconnect solutions.
What You'll Do
- Serve as Corning’s primary field technical interface to NVIDIA engineering and architecture teams in Santa Clara, CA.
- Lead and support system-level architecture discussions spanning hardware platforms, CPO implementations, optical connectivity, shuffle boxes, structured cabling, and high-density interconnect solutions.
- Provide CPO & PCS technical leadership, supporting NVIDIA programs involving Co-Packaged Optics, including connectivity considerations beyond the package into the system and rack level.
- Contribute to reference architectures, cabling guides, and application documentation in close collaboration with PCS product management and engineering teams.
- Design‑In, Validation & Issue Resolution: Lead technical evaluations, design‑in activities, and validation efforts from early development through production ramp.
- Support demonstrations, prototyping iterations, troubleshooting, and corrective actions across development and deployment phases.
- Provide on-site support for proof of concepts, samples, and troubleshooting activities in the pre-sale and post-sale processes.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, or Applied Science.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in optical fibers and connectivity.
- Familiarity with multi-layer physical layer data center network topologies like spine and leaf.
- Layer 2 Networking Certification a plus.
- Familiarity with Scale Out, Scale Up, and Scale Across AI network architectures.
- Semiconductor experience a plus.
- Experience using a CRM, especially Salesforce.
Nice to Have
- Layer 2 networking certification
- Semiconductor industry experience
- Salesforce CRM experience
- Experience with AI-scale network architectures