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Lumentum · 2 hours ago

Distinguished Technical Staff, Standards and Strategy

Lumentum Holdings is seeking an experienced individual contributor to drive their standards activities and strategy. In this critical role, you will define and lead strategy and standards across all business units, representing Lumentum at external forums and working with peers and customers to mold standards based on internal objectives.

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Responsibilities

Owns Lumentum Datacom, Telecom, Switching standards strategy
Represents Lumentum externally in standards forums, speaking on behalf of the company’s interests
Works with peers, customers, collaborators to implements Lumentum’s standards objectives
Covers emerging standards in adjacent markets such as PCIe, UCIe, as well as optical standards

Qualification

Optical technologyStandards strategyData communication protocolsHigh speed SerDes technologyModulation formatsWritten communicationPresentation skillsInterpersonal skills

Required

MS, PhD, Electrical Engineering, Photonics, or related field
15+ years of experience in optical technology, including experience in optical components, optical modules, optical switches across multiple end user applications
Previous experience with electrical standardization for applications like host side optical module interfaces
Strong relationships in the current standards bodies as well as Hyperscalers
Ability to define a drive strategy in standards bodies, previous experience serving as standards chair highly desired
Experience with data communication protocols (Ethernet, PCIe, etc)
Strong understanding of high speed SerDes technology
Excellent understanding of different modulation formats such as PAM4, Coherent
Excellent written, presentation, and communication skills

Benefits

Annual bonus
Commission for certain sales roles
Equity
Health and welfare benefits

Company

Lumentum

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Lumentum Operations is an optical and photonic products manufacturer.

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$3.67B
2025-09-04Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
2023-06-12Post Ipo Debt· $525M
2022-03-03Post Ipo Debt· $750M

Leadership Team

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Wajid Ali
Executive Vice President and CFO
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Misha Rozenberg
Executive Vice President of Operations and Quality
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