Senior Digital (Mix Signal) Architect

Responsibilities

• Be the digital architecture owner of Lightmatter’s Passage product.
• Work closely with the rest of the architecture team, chip-design team, and the software team.
• Responsible for the digital architecture from initial concept through high-volume production.
• Work closely with the technical program manager(s) to plan, organize, and execute.
• Architect and specify system level digital designs integrating complex AMS and photonic circuits.
• These circuits include stabilization circuits of AMS & photonic devices; line-rate DSP, FEC, CRC; and tuning & adaptation of analog front-end components.
• Work closely with test and validation engineers to validate hardware against simulation prediction.
• Author, review, and validate architectural specifications.
• With the product and applications engineering teams, they also produce customer-facing product datasheets and reference designs.
• Identify possible improvements as well as possible pitfalls (including mitigation strategies) around executing the proposed architectures.

Qualifications

• 12+ years and a Masters’ degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• In-depth knowledge of power-efficient digital design flow for high-speed AMS electronics, preferably on photonic communication channels.
• In-depth knowledge of digital circuit design in a high-speed analog/photonic link, including device bring-up, control, and digital signal processing.
• Demonstrated strong problem solving skills specifically pertaining to problems that do not have obvious solutions.
• Demonstrated strong communication and collaboration internally and externally, with timely responses and consistently positive feedback.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of SerDes PCS layer and equalization along with forward error-correction schemes.
• Ability and desire to collaborate in a cross-disciplinary team: from hardware to software.