Key Responsibilities
Hands-On Customer Support Leadership: Drive external-facing interactions, answering customer and partner questions and supporting design-in activities for new products.
Test Setup Development: Lead the specification, assembly, and validation of custom, high-speed (> 50GHz) electrical, electro-optical, and optical-optical die-level test setups.
Equipment & Tool Management: Identify, select, and procure necessary test tools and equipment; partner directly with equipment vendors to bring up and troubleshoot measurement systems.
Device Characterization Strategy & Execution: Collaborate with design teams and product architects to formulate comprehensive test plans across die, package, and board levels. Must be strongly familiar with industry standard practices for high-volume high-speed electrical and optical characterization.
Data Management & Visualization: Build and maintain structured databases of measurement data; analyze and report out findings using data visualization tools.
Leadership & Supervision: Direct, coordinate, and supervise the daily testing efforts of junior applications engineers. Coordinate application and validation efforts across multiple global sites.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience: 5+ years industry experience in datacenter transceiver and high-speed electrical and optical interfaces (at least 50Gbps/lane PAM4; 200Gbps/lane strongly preferred).
Hands-on bench setup development and bring-up: Hands-on experience with die/package-level testing, small and large signal testing, and high throughput test automation. Experience with the design and bring-up of multi-purpose high-speed opto-electrical test stations.
Equipment: Expertise with high-speed (> 50 GHz) test equipment including Lightwave Component Analyzers (LCA), DCAs, AWGs, and real-time oscilloscopes.
Lab automation: Develop and optimize robust bench test automation scripts to maximize throughput and device characterization coverage, while ensuring repeatability and streamlining data logging and databasing.
Time management: Track record of solid time management, and the ability to multitask across multiple test setups in parallel.
Interfacing & Coupling: Proven knowledge of single- and multi-channel optical fiber coupling schemes (normal-incidence, edge coupling, grating couplers) fiber alignment procedures, and high-speed electrical interfacing (direct RF probing, high-speed connectors).
Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead test initiatives and coordinate junior engineering staff. Experience summarizing and presenting complex test results to cross-functional teams. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Hands-on PCB and optical assembly experience tailored for test environments.
Proficiency in Python, Matlab, JMP, and Spotfire.
