Lead Photonics System Engineer

What you'll do

• Define product features, architecture, and validation requirements for advanced optical interconnects.
• Drive technical specifications and architectural decisions across circuit, module, tray, and rack levels.
• Translate hyperscale customer requirements into internal design targets and system specifications.
• Serve as the photonic subject matter expert to guide cross-functional decision-making and FMEA.
• Optimize system performance across optical, electrical, and thermal domains while balancing power and cost.
• Support optical engine bring-up on XPU and switch platforms.
• Conduct interoperability and system validation testing for optical products.
• Lead root cause analysis to resolve performance gaps in photonic systems.

What we're looking for

• Experience specifying, designing, validating, and ramping state-of-the-art integrated optical products.
• Ability to drive architectural decisions across circuit design, module design, integration, tray, and rack-level architecture.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills demonstrated through technical publications or executive briefings.
• Subject matter expertise on datacenter client optics (preferred).
• Experience with high-baud optical communication devices and systems (preferred).
• Strong working experience in optical transceiver design, fiber optics, RF modulation, and networking systems (preferred).
• Experience with schematic and layout design for photonic integrated circuits (preferred).
• Familiarity with MSA and IEEE standards for optical transceivers, CPO, NPO, and testing performance metrics like TDECQ (preferred).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related discipline (preferred).