High-Speed Electro-Optical IC Engineer (RFIC Engineering)
Palo Alto · Redmond, WA · 2+ years experience · Posted Oct 14, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Location
- Palo Alto · Redmond, WA
About the role
- The High-Speed Electro-Optical IC Engineer will develop cutting-edge next-generation PIC/EIC for deployment in space and ground infrastructures.
- This role involves working alongside cross-disciplinary teams to design and characterize high-speed optical link solutions for the Starlink network.
Responsibilities
- Design, analyze and simulate drivers for MZM and laser diodes
- Design analyze and simulate TIAs and derive models for PDs (Ge Photo diodes)
- Derive specifications for the entire electro-optical system and circuits
- Design and model package for elecrto-optical components and systems
- Develop Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF/Microwave circuits in SiGe, FDSOI, or silicon bulk CMOS processes
- Work with system architects, DSP/ASIC designers and PIC designers to partition functions between hardware, software, and optical domains
- Perform IC floor planning and layout
- Simulate and model package and external discrete components
- Evaluate, characterize and measure electrical and optical building blocks of a high-speed optical link solution
- Assist in the development of automated test setups and test programs for production and lab measurements
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science
- 2+ years of photonics or electro-optical integrated circuit design
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee to conform to U.S. Government export regulations
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree or PhD in physics, electrical engineering or computer engineering with an emphasis in electro-optics integrated circuit design
- Experience using simulation tools such as Spectre, ADS, HFSS or Momentum, Ansys Lumerical, COMSOL
- Understanding of silicon photonics designs, and familiarity with optical building blocks such as MZM and Microring modulators, Ge Photo diodes, dWDM filters, waveguides, couplers, dividers and polarization management circuitry
- Electrical circuit design skills for mmWave or broadband analog
- Knowledge of advanced packaging technology for high-speed data links
- Experience working on wideband circuit designs supporting high speed Serdes links with more than 80Gbps data rate and bandwidths exceeding 10s of GHz
- Familiarity with high speed SerDes architecture, modulation schemes such as NRZ and PAM4 and link protocols
- Fluency with programming in either C/C++ or Python
Benefits
- Long-term incentives (company stock or long-term cash awards)
- Discretionary bonuses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
Workplace
- Role can be based in Palo Alto, CA or Redmond, WA
Skills
- Spectre
- ADS
- HFSS
- Momentum
- Ansys Lumerical
- COMSOL
- SiGe
- FDSOI
- CMOS
- C++
- Python
- SerDes
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- NRZ
- PAM4
