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Principal system engineer

AvicenaTech
Sunnyvale, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/12/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2025
  • Avicena is a privately held company developing microLED based ultra-low power high bandwidth interconnects for chip-to-chip communications. This technology will revolutionize High-Performance (HPC) and Cloud computing, as well as other industries where low power interconnects are critical like camera sensors, autonomous vehicles, and aerospace. Avicena is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with a development center in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company was founded in 2019 by leading technologists from the optical networking industry with a track record of delivering breakthrough products. (www.avicena.tech)
  • Responsibilities :

    • Lead a team of engineers to characterize optical transmitters, optical receivers and link performance of highly parallel opto-electronic interfaces
    • Develop and maintain optical transmission system testing bed for full characterization of optical components and modules as well as system performance measurements
    • Define and run link DOEs using uLED on ASIC transmitters, fiber bundle as transmission and PD on ASIC as receivers
    • Characterize various aspects of both existing and potential future optical components such as evaluating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), receiver sensitivity, bit-error-rate (BER), crosstalk, power consumptions and link budget of the transmission system
    • Work with PCBA design engineers to design, fabricate and bring up test boards. Experience in schematic capture, circuit simulation and PCB design guidance
    • Qualifications :

    • MS or PhD in electrical engineering or physics with 6 years of experience
    • Expertise with optical transceiver circuits such as Trans-impedance Amplifier (TIA), laser / led drivers and photodetectors
    • Familiarity with datacenter class optical module designs for Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable Octal Small Form Factor Pluggable (QSFP) / (OSFP) form factor pluggable modules or emerging Near-Packaged Optics (NPO) or Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) approaches.
    • Experience with optical transceiver test methodologies
    • Familiarity with industry standards including IEEE Ethernet standards, OIF standards and MSAs
    • Preferred Qualifications :

    • Ability to work cross-functionally with ASIC, packaging and optical design teams and provide clear technical inputs
    • Strong verbal and written communication skills, and ability to articulate and engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels
    • Ability to code scripts in python for validation and data analysis
    • Working knowledge of high-speed test instruments such as VNAs, sampling and real time oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers
    • Hands-on lab experience especially with probed / free space coupled (using stages) optical systems
    • Knowledge of information theory, system partitioning and ability to derive block specification needed to meet desired system performance

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