High-Speed Electro-Optical IC Engineer (RFIC Engineering)

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $125,000–$145,000 / yr
Posted: today

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TL;DR · High-Speed Electro-Optical IC Engineer (RFIC Engineering)

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Join our RFIC Engineering team as a High-Speed Electro-Optical IC Engineer, where you will collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to develop next-generation PIC/EIC chips for global space and ground infrastructures. Your daily tasks include designing and simulating electro-optical building blocks and RF/analog/mixed signal circuits, deriving specifications for subsystems, and working closely with system architects and ASIC engineers on hardware-software partitioning. You will also evaluate and measure electrical and optical components using advanced simulation tools like Spectre, ADS, HFSS, and Ansys Lumerical, ensuring high-speed SerDes links exceed 100Gbps data rates. Essential skills include photonics design expertise, knowledge of advanced packaging technology for co-package optics solutions, and familiarity with high-speed test equipment such as oscilloscopes and BERTs.

Skills

Spectre ADS HFSS Momentum Ansys Lumerical COMSOL MZM Microring modulators Ge Photo diodes dWDM filters waveguides couplers dividers high bandwidth modulator drivers TIAs CTLEs filters low noise and power amplifiers advanced packaging technology co-package optics (CPO) SerDes architecture NRZ PAM4 link protocols spectrum analyzers vector signal analyzers vector signal generators high speed oscilloscopes BERTs

What you'll do

Design, simulate, and model electro-optical building blocks for silicon photonics solutions.
Derive specifications for Photonics IC/Electrical IC subsystems and circuits.
Evaluate, characterize, and measure electrical and optical building blocks of high-speed optical links.
Work with system architects to partition functions between hardware and software domains.
Collaborate with manufacturing engineers on production testing and qualification of EIC/PIC components.

What we're looking for

2+ years of photonics or electro-optical integrated circuit design experience
Master's degree or PhD in electrical engineering with emphasis on electro-optics IC design
Proficiency in simulation tools like Spectre, ADS, HFSS, Ansys Lumerical, and COMSOL
Expertise in designing optical building blocks such as MZM modulators, Ge photo diodes, dWDM filters
Experience with electrical circuit design including high bandwidth modulator drivers, TIAs, CTLEs, filters