What are the responsibilities and job description for the Optical DSP Application Engineer position at Credo Semiconductor, Inc.?
Credo's Optical DSP Application Engineering Team
Fueling the next generation of AI data centers, our mission is to enable and drive high-speed communication by providing cutting-edge technology, world-class quality, and interoperability. We deliver advanced high-speed communication solutions, including chips, optical modules, and active optical cables. Our current chips support speeds up to 1.6TBps.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and implement test plans and test cases.
- Develop scalable test framework components.
- Develop automation and flows for testing, data acquisition, and data analysis.
- Set up lab testing environments, including evaluation boards, test equipment, and test code.
- Create and exercise lab automation involving evaluation boards, third-party test equipment, data acquisition, and environmental conditions.
- Bring up new systems that may include new hardware, chip firmware, or algorithms.
- Collaborate with chip design teams.
- Support FAE and sales teams as the first line of communication with customers, both pre- and post-sale.
- Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis of issues and bugs.
- Implement algorithms for signal acquisition and link optimizations.
- Work with customers to enable, optimize, and troubleshoot optical communication products.
- Write and maintain technical documentation for both internal and external use.
- Develop and exercise data and signal analysis tools and algorithms.
- Perform system integration and optimization, mediating multiple cross-functional teams such as DSP design, analog design, firmware, software, specific hardware design, and optical components.
- Conduct system integration on switch and server levels, simulating AI datacenter environments.
Education, Skills and Experience
- Desire and willingness to learn and grow
- Bachelor's degree in EE, CE or software engineering, or a related field.
- 3 years of experience in software or hardware development
- Proficiency and delight in Python coding, including data and signal analysis
- Some background and understanding of signal processing and digital communication
- Some experience with hardware or high-speed communication systems, or strong desire to learn
- Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
- Comfortable with Linux environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with fiber optic communication systems.
- Experience with high speed SerDes
- Experience in High-speed hardware design and signal integrity
- Experience in Wireless or mobile communications, especially PHY
- Knowledge of Ethernet and InfiniBand protocols and standards
Extra bonus points
- Frontend and backend of webapp
- Dashboarding applications like "Dash" and Grafana
- Expert level of Pandas and NumPy
- Expert level in Python's graphing libraries like Plotly and Pyplot
Salary : $120,000 - $140,000
