Koch Industries

Principal Hardware Engineer - Optical Transceiver

Koch Industries$200K — $275K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering
  • Experience in hardware development within the Telcom or Datacom industry
  • Proven expertise in fiber optics, transceivers, or transport hardware development
  • Strong grasp of transmission lines, power integrity, and signal integrity
  • Documented history of significant impact on transceiver hardware projects

Responsibilities

  • Lead hardware design for high-speed fiber optic transceiver from concept through production readiness
  • Serve as the technical authority on design architecture and guide engineering initiatives
  • Direct engineering teams in evaluating risk and making trade-off decisions
  • Proactively identify and address design problems, facilitating regular design meetings
  • Ensure hardware development success aligns with product life cycle procedures
  • Represent the engineering team in addressing product development requirements and customer inquiries
  • Manage key suppliers to meet project milestones
  • Engage with key customers to resolve technical issues and support design wins

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plans with matching contributions
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Family-friendly benefits including parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Molex is rapidly growing in our Opto-E business, responsible for developing 1.6T, 3.2T and beyond. In our Fremont office, we have a dedicated team of engineers. In this role, the Sr Principal Hardware Engineer will drive transceiver design and lead optical modules tuning to achieve optimal performance. Joined by a team of optical, SI/PI designers, this team will work collectively to ensure a high-volume manufacturing.

As the only manufacturer in North America, this person will have an impact on our high-speed optical interconnects and the growth of the company.

This person will spend time on design, component selection and implementation strategy.

What You Will Do

  • Lead hardware design for high-speed fiber optic transceiver from definition, design, and testing for production readiness.
  • Perform as technical authority for design architecture and provide technical guidance for engineering initiatives
  • Lead engineering team in making risk/trade off decision
  • Anticipate and resolve problems timely and conduct routine design meeting
  • Ensure the success of hardware development in compliance with product life cycle procedure
  • Representing engineering team in product development requirements and customers RFI/RFQ response
  • Manage the key suppliers to in line with project objectives
  • Interface with key customers to address technical questions, issues and support design win.
  • Escalate to management for critical risk management and conflict resolutions


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering
  • Hardware development experience in Telcom or Datacom industry
  • Experience with Fiber optics, transceiver or transport hardware development
  • In-depth understanding of transmission lines, power integrity, signal integrity
  • Significant impact to transceiver hardware


For this role, we anticipate paying $200,000 - 275,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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