Senior Platform & Hardware Applications Engineer (f/m/d)

Black Semiconductor; Aachen; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Black Semiconductor in Aachen is seeking a Senior Platform & Hardware Applications Engineer to enable successful customer adoption of our OCI technology. You will work with Product, Photonics, Packaging, Test Engineering, and Commercial teams to help customers deploy our technology while feeding field feedback for product improvements.

Your role spans platform integration, high-speed system validation, reference design development, and technical support across the product lifecycle.

Qualifikationen

• Expertise in high-speed hardware platforms and interconnects.
• Experience with FPGA/ASIC bring-up and system validation.
• Ability to support customers and perform pre-sales activities.

Aufgaben

• Guide customers in integrating Black Semiconductor products into ecosystem solutions such as switches, NICs, accelerators, ASICs, and FPGA-based platforms.
• Support customer bring-up and debug activities, including link training, BER validation, interoperability testing, firmware configuration, and system-level issue resolution.
• Develop example schematics, reference boards, application notes, and integration guides covering power delivery, clocking, fiber and cable routing, management interfaces, pinouts, register maps, and thermal and mechanical guidelines.
• Contribute to SDKs and PDKs where appropriate.
• Work with Product, Photonics, Packaging, and Test Engineering teams to relay field issues and feedback to shape future product development.
• Support pre-sales activities including evaluations, demonstrations, and benchmarking.

Kenntnisse

High-speed hardware

FPGA bring-up

ASIC bring-up

Optical interconnects

System validation

Customer-facing engineering

Tools

SDKs

PDKs

Jobbeschreibung

About Us

We see the semiconductor industry as a realm of possibility. We see opportunity. We see the profound impact that our graphene solutions will have in transforming the industry. We invite you to join us in driving change with our fundamentally human-centered approach, uniting bright minds around a shared vision. The vision is: Prove to everybody that you can make a fundamental change. Prove with your knowledge and skills how things can be done differently. Together, we can change the paradigm of how the world connects

About Us

We see the semiconductor industry as a realm of possibility. We see opportunity. We see the profound impact that our graphene solutions will have in transforming the industry. We invite you to join us in driving change with our fundamentally human-centered approach, uniting bright minds around a shared vision. The vision is: Prove to everybody that you can make a fundamental change. Prove with your knowledge and skills how things can be done differently. Together, we can change the paradigm of how the world connects

About Our Technology The Role

The semiconductor industry’s growing demand for more powerful chips with higher bandwidth and lower power finds its solution in our technology. We connect chips to high-throughput, low-delay computing networks. The key lies in harnessing the physical properties of graphene to combine electronic computing with photonic communication, allowing countless chips to interact almost as if they were one. Our graphene photonic innovation increases computing power and efficiency to a new order of magnitude

In short,

we connect chips to create powerful and energy-efficient networks, overcoming connectivity limitations in the semiconductor industry. We deliver the graphene solution

The Role

We are seeking a skilled Senior Platform & Hardware Applications Engineer at Black Semiconductor to enable successful customer adoption of our next‑generation Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) technology. Working closely with Product, Photonics, Packaging, Test Engineering, and Commercial teams, you will help customers successfully deploy our technology while providing valuable feedback from the field to drive future product improvements. Your work will span platform integration, high-speed system validation, reference design development, and technical support across the product lifecycle. This role combines high-speed hardware platforms, FPGA and ASIC bring-up, optical interconnect technologies, system validation, and customer‑facing technical engineering.

To join our team, your should be excited to

• Guide customers in integrating Black Semiconductor products into ecosystem solutions such as switches, NICs, accelerators, ASICs, and FPGA-based platforms.
• Support customer bring-up and debug activities, including link training, BER validation, interoperability testing, firmware configuration, and system-level issue resolution.
• Develop example schematics, reference boards, application notes, and integration guides covering power delivery, clocking, fiber and cable routing, management interfaces, pinouts, register maps, and thermal and mechanical guidelines. Contribute to SDKs and PDKs where appropriate.
• Work closely with Product, Photonics, Packaging, and Test Engineering teams to communicate field issues, customer feedback, and feature requests that help shape future product development.
• Support pre-sales activities including evaluations, demonstrations, and benchmarking, as well