We are actively seeking a System Architect based in US (Bay Area or Austin preferred), EU considered.
- Own the SoC and Product Specification stack for a 1.6T retimer SoC and the AEC product it enables, at 224G/lane PAM4.
- You will author and maintain normative specifications (SHALL/MUST/SHOULD/MAY language with REQ-ID traceability) that RTL, firmware, software, SI/PI, manufacturing, qualification, and customer engineering teams execute against.
- Standards scope spans IEEE 802.3ck/dj, OIF CEI-112G/224G, OSFP MSA, CMIS 5.x, EIA-364, JEDEC JESD22/51.
- You will represent architecture in hyperscaler and strategic platform customer specification negotiation, including qualification test point, FEC telemetry, CMIS vendor-page, and thermal envelope commitments.
Required: - 12+ years in shipping high-speed interconnect (retimer, gearbox, PHY, AEC, AOC, coherent optics, SerDes-centric networking silicon).
- Prior System Architect, Chief Architect, or Principal Systems Engineer role on a shipping 100G/lane or higher product.
- Direct authorship of at least one product spec and one silicon spec on a shipping product.
- PAM4 link training, FEC, and on-die telemetry fluency at the specification level.
- DOORS / JAMA / equivalent traceability tooling.