Senior High-Speed Electro-Optical IC Engineer

SpaceX

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Work type: On-site
Location: Palo Alto, CARedmond, WA
Salary: $175,000–$280,000 / yr
Posted: 13 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.

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TL;DR · Senior High-Speed Electro-Optical IC Engineer

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The Sr. High-Speed Electro-Optical IC Engineer (RFIC Engineering) joins a cross-disciplinary team to develop next-generation PIC/EIC for space and ground infrastructures. This role focuses on expanding the performance of the Starlink network by designing, simulating, and modeling electro-optical building blocks, RF/analog/mixed-signal circuits, and subsystems. Key responsibilities include deriving specifications, performing IC floor planning and layout, modeling package parasitics, and characterizing high-speed optical link solutions. The engineer will utilize SiGe or CMOS processes and tools such as Spectre, ADS, HFSS, Momentum, Ansys Lumerical, and COMSOL. Required expertise includes photonics design for components like MZM and Microring modulators, as well as electrical circuit design for high-bandwidth modulator drivers, TIAs, and CTLEs. The work addresses high-speed SerDes links exceeding 100Gbps data rates.

Skills

Silicon Photonics RFIC CMOS SiGe Spectre ADS HFSS Momentum Ansys Lumerical COMSOL SerDes PAM4 NRZ CTLE CPO Spectrum Analyzer Vector Signal Analyzer BERT

What you'll do

Design, simulate, and model electro-optical building blocks for silicon photonics solutions.
Develop RF, analog, and mixed-signal circuits using SiGe or CMOS processes.
Derive technical specifications for Photonics IC and Electrical IC subsystems.
Perform IC floor planning, layout, and modeling of package parasitics.
Evaluate and measure electrical and optical building blocks of high-speed optical links.
Develop automated test lab equipment for performing laboratory measurements.
Coordinate with manufacturing engineers on production testing and qualification of components.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science.
5+ years of photonics or electro-optical integrated circuit design.
Master's degree or PhD in electrical engineering or computer engineering with an emphasis in electro-optics integrated circuit design (preferred).
Experience using simulation tools such as Spectre, ADS, HFSS, Momentum, Ansys Lumerical, or COMSOL (preferred).
Photonics design skills and experience simulating optical building blocks like MZM, Microring modulators, and waveguides (preferred).
Electrical circuit design skills for linear and non-linear circuits like high bandwidth modulator drivers and TIAs (preferred).
Experience with wideband circuit designs for high speed SerDes links exceeding 100Gbps (preferred).
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for required Department of State authorizations.