SR R&D/PRODUCT DVL ENGINEER (On-Site Middletown, PA) (MIDDLETOWN, PA, US, 17057-3172) @ TE Connectivity

Job Posting Title: SR R&D/PRODUCT DVL ENGINEER (On-Site Middletown, PA) Job ID: 161939 Job Code: 30004619 Business Unit: DIGITAL DATA NETWORKS (50461863) Building: TYCO ELECTRONICS 3101 FMR (128) Band/Level: 5 Hiring Manager: Sandip Prajapati Recruiter: Pete Roosendaal Relocation: Yes - Domestic Travel: Less than 10% Employee Referral Amount: $1,000.00 Education Experience: Bachelors Degree (High School +4 years) Employment Experience: 5-7 years At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Overview Join TE Connectivity’s Active Electrical Cable Development team to validate and automate next-generation AEC and ACC products for AI, data-center, and high-performance networking. This role combines system-level interoperability, regression automation, data-driven quality analysis, and cross-layer debugging across cables, switches, NICs and DPUs, servers, GPU clusters, traffic generators, operating systems, drivers, and firmware.

Build representative multi-vendor customer environments, identify interoperability risks before deployment, and improve repeatable regression coverage. Provide objective test evidence that enables clear, scalable product-release decisions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own interoperability and network-validation strategy, test planning and execution for AEC and ACC products.
• Design complex multi-vendor configurations that reproduce customer deployment environments.
• Convert system requirements into executable tests and expand regression coverage with reusable automation.
• Maintain efficient, sustainable lab infrastructure and repeatable test configurations.
• Lead cross-layer troubleshooting across applications, operating systems, drivers, NICs and DPUs, switches, cables, firmware, and PHYs.
• Analyze logs, counters, telemetry, and configuration data to isolate failures and verify corrective actions.
• Partner with Firmware, Hardware, Signal Integrity, Software, Product, and Customer Engineering teams.
• Communicate technical risks, test results, and evidence-based release recommendations to engineering leadership.
• Mentor junior engineers and improve test, defect management, and documentation practices.

CORE TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Interoperability and System Validation

• Validate AEC/ACC across switches, NICs, DPUs, GPUs, traffic generators, and customer-referenced platforms.
• Cover multiple OEMs, silicon vendors, cable lengths, firmware revisions, FEC settings, breakout modes, and link rates.
• Verify initialization, repeated link cycles, port resets, reboot recovery, traffic restart, and long-duration stability.
• Develop system-level plans spanning hardware, firmware, drivers, operating systems, switch NOS, and applications. GPU Cluster and High-Performance Networking
• Configure and troubleshoot server-to-switch and multi-node GPU-cluster connectivity.
• Validate high-bandwidth Ethernet paths for AI/HPC, including topology, driver, firmware, and host dependencies.
• Build repeatable, customer-representative multi-node test configurations. Automation and Data Analysis
• Characterize new scenarios manually, then automate repeatable tests using Python, PyTest, Bash, REST APIs, SSH, and vendor interfaces.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD and regression infrastructure; collect and analyze logs, counters, and telemetry.
• Use log parsing, dashboards, and failure-trend analysis to improve coverage and quality decisions. Failure Analysis and Debugging
• Localize failures to the cable, host, switch, firmware, driver, configuration, or system layer.
• Correlate switch/NIC counters and diagnostic data with cable firmware and EEPROM/configuration revisions.
• Support root-cause analysis and corrective-action verification across engineering disciplines. What your background should look like ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS
• BS or higher in Electrical Engineering, Networking, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; master's preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant experience validating network systems, software applications, automation solutions, or engineering systems.
• Strong Linux and Networking Foundation: Ethernet, TCP/IP, Layer 2/Layer 3, VLAN, LAG/LACP, FEC, link training, MTU, and packet/error counters.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Bash/Shell with practical use of REST APIs, SSH, JSON/YAML, and Linux CLI tools.
• Experience with Git, GitHub or GitLab, Jenkins/CI/CD, Jira, Confluence, Agile development, software testing and debugging.
• Hands-on experience with data-center switches, NICs, SmartNICs, DPUs, servers, or high-performance compute platforms.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced Linux troubleshooting using SSH, ethtool, ip, lspci, dmesg, and journalctl.
• Experience with SONiC, Cumulus Linux, or vendor-customized Linux variant network operating systems.
• PyTest, hardware-in-the-loop and lab automation using BERTs, VNA, pattern generators and power supplies.
• Knowledge of AEC, ACC, AOC, QSFP/QSFP-DD/OSFP, CMIS, EEPROM and re-timer/re-driver technologies.
• Signal-integrity fundamentals: BER, crosstalk, channel loss, equalization, jitter, and PAM4/NRZ.
• GPU/AI networking: GPU servers, NICs, DPUs, RoCE/RDMA, multi-node clusters and high-throughput Ethernet fabrics.
• Data analytics, telemetry processing, dashboards, and failure-trend analysis.
• Exposure to AI-assisted test generation, defect prediction, automated log analysis, LLM integration, or agentic AI tools.

COMPENSATION

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $116,900 - $175,300 (subject to change depending on physical location)
• Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
• Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits BENEFITS
• A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.

EOE, Including Disability/Vets

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