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Lead Photonics System Engineer

AMD· Engineering
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San Jose, CA$232kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Seasoned Photonic System Engineer to architect and bring to market advanced optical interconnects, drive cross-functional design, and align product specs with hyperscale customer requirements from concept to deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Define product features, capabilities, architecture, and validation requirements, as well as drive technical specifications for advanced optical interconnects.
  • Work cross-functionally across design, packaging, platform, and NPI teams to ensure successful adoption of photonic solutions and serve as the photonic subject matter expert to help guide cross-functional decision-making, product-direction, and FMEA.
  • Engage directly with internal customers such as GPU/CPU system architects and external customers (hyperscalers, networking OEMs) on technical discussions and architecture trade-offs, specification alignment, and translating customer requirements into internal design targets and system specifications.
  • Work with SerDes, optical device, packaging, and SI/PI teams to: - Optimize system performance across optical, electrical, and thermal domains - Balance performance, power, cost, and manufacturability
  • System-Level Bring-Up & Debug: - Support Optical Engine bring-up on XPU and/or switch platforms - Conduct interoperability and system validation testing - Lead root cause analysis for performance gaps.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in related discipline preferred
  • Subject matter expertise on datacenter client optics
  • Experience with high-baud optical communication devices and systems
  • Strong working experience in optical transceiver design, fiber optics, RF modulation, and networking systems
  • Experience with schematic and layout design for photonic integrated circuits
  • Familiarity with MSA and IEEE standards for optical transceivers, CPO, NPO (e.g., OCI, QSFP, OSFP, CMIS)
  • Experience testing transceiver performance: TDECQ, receiver sensitivity, stressed eye measurements

Skills

Required:Product feature definitionCross-functional collaborationCustomer engagement

Benefits

  • (Benefits described on AMD benefits at a glance)
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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