Principal Engineer, Electronic Hardware Design

Essential Functions

• Create and maintain External Laser Source module specifications to meet product requirements
• Manage communication between cross-functional teams including optical, mechanical and thermal design disciplines
• Design printed circuit boards schematics for all functions of External Laser Source NPI
• Manage hardware design resources internal and external to Ayar Labs
• Develop and execute validation test plans for all laser module hardware design components

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors in Electrical Engineering with 12+ years of industry experience, or Masters/PhD in Electrical Engineering with 10+ years of industry experience
• Strong fundamentals in low-noise analog circuit design and electromagnetics
• Expert knowledge of electro-optic building blocks such as TIA and Laser Driver
• Power user of Altium PCB design tools, including Altium 365 and Agile workflows
• Deep understanding of BMC architecture for enclosure management (OCP)
• Expert experience using electrical and electro-optic lab equipment such as: Oscilloscope, VNA, ESA, OSA, protocol analyzer, etc.
• Expert user of circuit simulation tools such as LTspice, PSpice, and vendor-specific switching regulator software
• Strong programming ability in python, with the ability to automate hardware testing and analysis
• Strong ability in fundamental embedded programming concepts: real-time operating systems, MCU memory usage, bootloader, serial interfaces

Preferred Qualifications

• Optical transceiver design experience (OSFP, QSFP-DD, CDFP)
• Firmware development in C (bare-metal / RTOS)
• Basic RTL development (FPGA, CPLD)
• Basic Mechanical CAD tool experience (Solidworks, Fusion)