Lumilens is looking for a seasoned Network Engineer to design, manage, and secure our global multi-site network spanning India, Thailand, Singapore, and the US. The role demands deep networking expertise, cloud integration experience, and strong communication skills to collaborate across globally distributed teams and stakeholders.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Design & maintain LAN/WAN/SD-WAN across all global sites
Manage site-to-site VPN tunnels across all 4 regions
Lead SASE/SD-WAN POC & deployment
Architect NAT Gateway & Linux jump host solutions for secure internet access
Configure and manage enterprise firewalls, switches, routers & Wi-Fi
Administer DNS, DHCP, IPAM and network monitoring tools
Implement Zero Trust, network segmentation & ACL policies
Support hybrid cloud connectivity (Azure / M365 / Entra ID)
Lab / production network segregation in manufacturing environments
Entra ID / Azure AD security group and conditional access policies
Ovii Interpretation
This Network Engineer role designs and operates Lumilens’s multi-site enterprise network across locations in Asia and the United States. The work spans routing, security, cloud connectivity, identity integrations, and network documentation, with coordination across distributed teams.
Design and maintain LAN, WAN, and SD-WAN across multiple sites, including site-to-site VPNs.
Lead proof-of-concept work and deployment for SASE and SD-WAN solutions.
Develop secure internet-access approaches using NAT gateways and Linux jump hosts.
Configure and operate enterprise firewalls, switches, routers, wireless networks, and network services.
Apply Zero Trust, segmentation, access-control, and threat-mitigation policies.
Connect networks with Azure and Microsoft 365 services, and support SSO and identity-aware access integrations.
Assess vendor proposals and document network architecture, operating procedures, and change records.
Coordinate network work with teams across IT, HR, Finance, and Operations in different regions.
Good fit signals
Brings 8–10 years of enterprise network engineering experience, including multi-site and multi-country environments.
Has deep hands-on networking expertise across routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, and SD-WAN/SASE.
Can support hybrid connectivity involving Azure and Microsoft 365 services.
Communicates clearly in English and has presented technical proposals to senior management.
Works effectively with cross-cultural teams across APAC and US time zones; listed certifications and additional security or SaaS experience are helpful, not required.
Meet Lumilens
Lumilens is a San Jose-based photonics company building optical interconnect infrastructure for large AI data centers. Its LumiCore platform combines in-house silicon photonics, mixed-signal ICs, electrical-optical interposers and optical systems to power pluggable transceivers, near-package optics and co-packaged optics. These products address scale-out networking between racks and scale-up connectivity between GPUs, where copper links face bandwidth and distance limits. Lumilens also develops proprietary manufacturing processes, robotics and automated testing for high-volume optical production. The company emerged from stealth in 2026 and is already shipping its first scale-out product into a hyperscaler's production AI data centers under a multi-billion-dollar customer agreement.
Founded
2024
Company size
51-200 employees
Company stage
Not known
Headquarters
San Jose, USA
Why work here
Lumilens offers candidates the opportunity to work on silicon photonics, mixed-signal ICs, optical systems, embedded software, robotics and high-volume manufacturing for AI infrastructure. The company has raised more than $900 million, reached a $5.51 billion valuation and is already shipping products into a hyperscaler's production data centers under a multi-billion-dollar agreement. Its careers material emphasizes significant technical ownership, hands-on collaboration and work across system boundaries. The company is rapidly expanding engineering and manufacturing teams across the US, India and Asia, creating scope to work on products moving from silicon design through qualification and large-scale production.
Industry
Silicon Photonics / AI Data Center Optical Interconnects
Mayfield, Spark Capital, Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Meritech, Seligman Ventures, Peak XV Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, Addition, Redpoint Ventures
Tech stack
Python
Programming Language
C++
Programming Language
C#
Programming Language
MATLAB
Engineering Computing
SystemVerilog
Hardware Description Language
UVM
Hardware Verification
Cadence Virtuoso
EDA
Synopsys HAPS
FPGA Prototyping
Linux
Operating System
Microsoft Azure
Cloud Infrastructure
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
SolidWorks
Mechanical CAD
Key people
5 people
ASAnkur SinglaCEO & FounderView bioHide bio
Founder and CEO of Lumilens and a repeat networking entrepreneur. Singla previously founded Contrail Systems, acquired by Juniper Networks, and Volterra, acquired by F5, and earlier served as CTO at Aruba Networks. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS from the University of Southern California.
RKRitesh KapahiVP/GM India & FounderView bioHide bio
Co-founder and VP/GM India at Lumilens. Kapahi has more than two decades of networking and hardware engineering experience and previously served as Vice President of Engineering at Cisco after senior engineering roles at Aruba. He studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BITS Pilani and completed Cornell's CXO Leadership Program.
Co-founder and VP Products at Lumilens. Liu previously held optical-networking product leadership roles at Marvell and Inphi and has experience scaling high-speed optical and signal-processing products. He holds a BS in Optical Engineering from Zhejiang University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.
DFDavid FriedmanVP Operations & FounderView bioHide bio
Co-founder and VP Operations at Lumilens. Friedman previously co-founded and led IoT platform company Ayla Networks and held roles spanning wireless technology, semiconductors, business development and operations. He studied at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and leads operational scaling at Lumilens.
Co-founder and CTO of Lumilens. Schmidt previously served as a senior distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks, where he led work in silicon photonics, co-packaged optics and optical integration following Juniper's acquisition of silicon-photonics company Aurrion. He leads Lumilens's core photonics technology development.
Lumilens Emerges from Stealth with More Than $900 Million in Funding to Break AI's Connectivity Constraint
Lumilens·
Lumilens emerged from stealth after raising more than $700 million in new financing, bringing total funding above $900 million at a $5.51 billion valuation. It also disclosed that its first scale-out product was shipping into a hyperscaler's production AI data centers under a multi-billion-dollar customer agreement.
POET Technologies and Lumilens Advance Wafer-Level Photonic Integration for Next-Generation AI Optical Networks
POET Technologies·
POET Technologies and Lumilens announced a joint development and supply agreement for wafer-level electrical-optical interposer technology spanning 800G and 1.6T pluggable transceivers and future NPO and CPO systems. Lumilens placed an initial $50 million purchase order tied to the program.