Principal Field Application Engineer

What you'll do

• Provide end-to-end technical support for customer high-speed I/O designs, from early assessment and design reviews through hardware debugging.
• Develop technical proposals based on customer requirements and system architectures; support customer design wins with Lightmatter Engineering.
• Guide and train the FAE team on high-speed I/O, including producing technical articles and reference designs.

What they ask for

• BS or MS in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of related experience in the high-tech electronics industry with high-speed serial I/O design, including transceiver architecture, CDR, DFE or other.
• In-depth knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity simulation, related hardware design, and familiarity with SI/PI EDA simulation tools and models, e.g. Keysight ADS.
• Customer-facing skills and effective communication with customers.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with digital signal processing theory and tools like Matlab Simulink; analog and mixed-signal design, ADC, or DAC experience.
• C, C++ and other software experience; customer-facing silicon photonics/optics expertise or experience deploying optics at data-center scale.

Pay

$250,000 — $300,000 USD (sales compensation; on-target earnings)

Tools

Passage, Keysight ADS, Matlab Simulink, C, C++, CDR, DFE, ADC

AI focus

Supports high-speed I/O designs for photonic interconnect technology used in data-center AI and HPC workloads.