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Company Overview:  Enlightened Integration LLC provides consulting services associated with the design, installation, operations, and maintenance of submarine fiber optic cable (SFOC) systems. We are looking for cleared senior professionals in fiber optic cable systems to work at a location near Norfolk, VA.  We offer competitive salary and benefits packages.

           Enlightened Integration LLC is an Equal Opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

The SENIOR LEAD OPTICAL ENGINEER candidate will perform the following functions:

• • • Generate/propose engineering designs and architectures

    • Generate/review methods of procedures and standard operating procedures used in SFOC system operations and sustainment activities

    • Generate and maintain system engineering documentation to guide acquisitions and acceptance activities (including providing design and test objectives)

    • Assist with system and subsystem technology assessments

    • Review and assess third-party support agreements and statements of work

    • Contribute to Cost Estimates, Affordability Analysis, Analysis of Alternatives, Courses of Action, and other system engineering artifacts

    • Able to support occasional travel (15% est.)

    • Participate in integrated project teams supporting system development

The SENIOR LEAD OPTICAL ENGINEER candidate should have the following background:

• • • Familiarity with terrestrial and subsea fiber-optic transmission design principles

    • Prior experience with several of the critical wet plant subsystems (E.g., fiber, cable, repeaters, etc.) and dry plant subsystems (E.g., power feed equipment, line terminal equipment, etc.)

    • An understanding of transmission performance penalties and margin budgets

    • Experience in translating performance requirements into system (or subsystem) production, test, and operational requirements

    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

    • Familiarity with control plane functionality, including the use of Craft Terminals, Element/Network Management Systems, the use of overhead or wayside channels, etc.

    • Familiarity with the properties of key optical elements within system line terminal equipment, such as multiplexers/demultiplexers, repeaters, branching units, reconfigurable optical add/drops, etc.

    • Prior hands-on use (I.e., installation, operations, maintenance, provisioning) of commercial submarine line terminal equipment a plus

    • General knowledge of optical transponder functionality and communications protocols supported (E.g., 10GE, OTN, FEC, etc.)

    • Prior leadership of small development teams in related system or subsystems helpful 

    • Experience with gauging the performance of systems using common industry metrics (E.g., Q-factor, BER, OSNR, etc.)

The candidate must have a M.S. degree in a related STEM field with 10+ years of experience in submarine fiber optic cable systems or related areas.    Candidates who are U.S. citizens with an existing security clearance are preferred, but clearance sponsorship for U.S. citizens who do not have a security clearance can be considered.   Also, the candidate is expected to adhere to all COVID-related rules and practices associated with vaccinations, reporting, etc. that are required by State and Federal officials.

          ** Please call 301-655-6039 (or email recruiting@enlightenedintegrationllc.com) to arrange an interview while at the conference **

About Enlightened Integration LLC

Enlightened Integration LLC is an independent consultancy specializing in the engineering and sustainment of fiber optic telecommunications networks.

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