Electro-Optic Link Hardware Engineer
$195,000–$250,000 year
HybridMountain View Santa Clara County, California, United States
Job Summary
Run hands-on lab characterization and debug of high-speed electrical/optical hardware, including novel failure modes. Build system-level electrical/optical/EO channel models and correlate them against bench measurements. Own link budget and verification methodology while validating eye diagrams, BER, jitter, equalization, and channel impairments. Support silicon bring-up and root-cause debug with analog, package, PCB, and SerDes teams. Build automation/tools to speed up characterization work and mentor Senior/Staff engineers without stepping back from lab efforts. Influence chip/package/system architecture tradeoffs based on bench findings.
Required Qualifications
- MS/PhD in EE, Photonics, Physics (8+ yrs) or BS/MS (10+ yrs)
- Ownership of verification strategy for a full silicon/system program
- Deep expertise in 56G/112G/224G+ serial links, SerDes equalization (CTLE/FFE/DFE), and signal integrity (S-parameters, crosstalk, link budgets)
- Hands-on lab experience leading investigations that stalled others
- Strong Python/MATLAB for team-used automation frameworks
- Proficiency with VNA, scopes, BERTs, TDRs, and tools like ADS, HFSS, Cadence, COMSOL
- Track record mentoring engineers
- Capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws
Desired Qualifications
- Silicon photonics/EO systems at the architecture level
- Package/PCB/channel co-design ownership
- COM/IBIS-AMI modeling
- Patents/standards contributions (OIF, IEEE 802.3)
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