Senior DSP & Optical Systems Architect

Qualcomm; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Canada ULC is seeking a Principal DSP Application Engineer to drive adoption and deployment of next‑generation DSP in Optical Transceiver and AEC solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure. You will partner with hyperscale customers, switch OEMs, module vendors, and system architects to enable high‑speed PAM4 connectivity up to 400G.

In this highly visible role, you will lead architecture evaluation, production deployment, and design reviews, while guiding optical DSP optimization and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience or related work experience.
• PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for strategic customers deploying Qualcomm DSP-enabled AEC and Optical Transceiver products.
• Drive customer engagements from architecture evaluation through production deployment.
• Lead technical design reviews, system bring-up, interoperability testing, and performance optimization activities.
• Support integration of Optical Transceiver and AEC solutions into AI clusters, switches, NICs, GPUs, and accelerator platforms.
• Optimize DSP in the PAM4 link performance across optical channels, electrical channels, cable assemblies, retimers.
• Develop application guidelines, reference designs, and deployment recommendations.
• Lead root-cause analysis across optical channels, DSP, SerDes, PMIC, reference clock, firmware, and PCB channels.
• Analyze eye diagrams, BER results, jitter measurements, equalization settings, and channel models.
• Expert in IEEE 802.3 compliance testing methodology for optical and electrical channels

Skills

PAM4 signaling

DSP-based equalization

SerDes architectures

Ethernet connectivity

Instrumentation automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Python

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Job description

Qualcomm Canada ULC is seeking a Principal DSP Application Engineer to drive adoption and deployment of next‑generation DSP in Optical Transceiver and AEC solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure. You will partner with hyperscale customers, switch OEMs, module vendors, and system architects to enable high‑speed PAM4 connectivity up to 400G.

In this highly visible role, you will lead architecture evaluation, production deployment, and design reviews, while guiding optical DSP optimization and