Technical Staff, Engineering Technologist (Signal Integrity)
About the role
From applied research to advanced engineering, the Engineering Technologist team has the expertise to shape ground-breaking products, material, and processes. It’s a fascinating field of work. We’re involved in assessing the competition, developing technology and product strategies, and generating intellectual property. We lead technology investigations, analyze industry capabilities, and recommend potential acquisitions or vendor partner opportunities. Our insights influence product architecture and definitions. And we work with colleagues across the business to ensure our products always lead the way. We are seeking a Principal Signal Integrity (SI) Engineer to serve as a technical leader and subject-matter expert for high-speed system design. This role is responsible for defining SI strategy, driving architectural decisions, and solving the most complex signal challenges across advanced multi-gigabit platforms. As a senior individual contributor, you will influence product direction, establish best practices, and lead technical initiatives across multiple teams and programs. Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Technical Staff on our Engineering Technologist team in Austin, Texas.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert guidance on technology investigations, prototyping strategies, and data generation that drive product decisions.
- Synthesize insights from experiments and literature to advise leaders and shape roadmaps.
- Mentor technologists and contribute to playbooks and tool improvements.
- Act as the technical authority for Signal Integrity across multiple programs and product lines.
- Define system-level SI architecture and strategy, including channel budgets, loss targets, and margin requirements.
- Lead end-to-end SI ownership from concept and architecture through design, validation, and production.
- Drive pre-layout and post-layout simulation methodologies and sign-off criteria across the organization.
- Develop and standardize design rules and best practices for PCB stack-up and materials selection.
- Develop and standardize design rules and best practices for high-speed routing constraints.
- Develop and standardize design rules and best practices for return path continuity and via design.
- Develop and standardize design rules and best practices for crosstalk and noise mitigation strategies.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in signal integrity, high-speed design, or related domain.
- Deep expertise in electromagnetic theory and transmission line behavior.
- Deep expertise in high-speed digital system design and channel modeling.
- Deep expertise in multi-gigabit serial link analysis and optimization.
- Proven track record of delivering complex, high-speed systems to production.