Applications Engineer - High-Speed Active Cable Solutions

Amphenol ICC

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 101,000 - 169,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS) seeks an experienced Application Engineer to support data center and AI networking customers. You will qualify, deploy, and optimize active cable and transceiver products, focusing on 112G–336G technologies and beyond.

The role requires hands-on lab work, strong system knowledge, and frequent customer interactions. Based in Santa Clara, CA, the engineer will collaborate with engineering, validation, product, and sales teams, travelling to customer sites as

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
  • 5+ years in application engineering, field application engineering, validation, or related roles.
  • Experience with high‑speed interconnect products such as retimer/redriver cables.
  • Hands‑on customer qualification or field support in data center, networking, or AI contexts.

Responsibilities

  • Provide customer technical support and qualification for active cable products.
  • Conduct lab debugging and optimize active cable performance (BER, FEC, eye margin, link training).
  • Support interoperability testing across switches, NICs, servers, GPUs, and data center infra.
  • Collaborate with SI, hardware, firmware, validation, product, and sales teams to resolve issues.

Skills

High-speed interconnects
Signal integrity
Customer collaboration
Analytical thinking
Lab debugging

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes
BERTs
VNAs
TDRs
CMIS
I2C

Job description

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS) seeks an experienced Application Engineer to support data center and AI networking customers. You will qualify, deploy, and optimize active cable and transceiver products, focusing on 112G–336G technologies and beyond.

The role requires hands-on lab work, strong system knowledge, and frequent customer interactions. Based in Santa Clara, CA, the engineer will collaborate with engineering, validation, product, and sales teams, travelling to customer sites as

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