Senior System Architect
Ottawa, ON, Canada | Full-Time | Ranovus
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Senior System Architect is a founding member of the Ranovus System Team, responsible for owning top-level architecture decisions and orchestrating definition of design requirements with the block level owners from the contributing technical domains. You will define the system partitioning and power-performance-cost-yield-manufacturability trade-offs for the Odin CPO platform, and ensure that architecture choices are manufacturable, testable, and reliable from day one.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define and issue Technical Engineering Requirements (TERs) to all sub-teams as the primary architectural authority.
- Own top-level system architecture assessment: PIC, ASIC, Laser, and Packaging partitioning across performance, cost, yield, and manufacturability dimensions.
- Contribute in DFM/DFT/DFR compliance
- Lead DFx gate reviews at each major milestone
- Maintain the system architecture document, TER register, and Interface Control Documents (ICDs) as living, version-controlled artifacts.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MSc. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Photonics, or related field.
- 12+ years in system architecture or product engineering for semiconductor or photonic products.
- Demonstrated experience owning cross-functional architecture trade-offs from concept through volume production.
- Hands-on background in at least two of: PIC integration, ASIC architecture, advanced packaging, or optical system design.
- Experience with DFM, DFR, and DFT in compound semiconductor, silicon photonics, or CPO products.
- Strong technical writing skills - ability to author and maintain formal TERs, ICDs, and architecture requirement documents.
NICE TO HAVE
- Familiarity with foundry PDKs and process corner characterization.
- Knowledge of OIF CEI, IEEE 802.3, or CPO-related MSA standards.
- Background in reliability modeling: FMEA, HTOL, thermal cycling for optoelectronic components.
What You'll Do
You will play a key role in advancing next-generation laser products from development through qualification. By combining hands-on characterization, automation development, reliability testing, and machine vision inspection, you will help establish the data, tools, and processes needed to bring high-performance laser products into production. Working closely with R&D, qualification and reliability teams, packaging suppliers, and external test providers, you will contribute directly to the successful commercialization of cutting-edge photonic technologies.
