Engineering Manager, High-Speed Digital & Optical Systems

Teradyne; Reading (MA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid vacation

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Teradyne in North Reading, MA is seeking an Engineering Manager – High-Speed Digital & Optical Solutions to lead a multidisciplinary team spanning optical transceivers, Silicon Photonics, and AI data-center interfaces. You will partner with customers, R&D, product management, and manufacturing to define measurement strategies and accelerate time-to-market.

You will mentor engineers, guide validation, and build reusable measurement workflows for SI/PI, BER, jitter, and channel modeling, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Photonics, Physics, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for applications, validation, characterization, and solution development while setting technical direction, priorities, and resource plans.
• Develop advanced validation and characterization solutions for optical transceivers from 400G through 1.6T and beyond, Silicon Photonics, CPO and NPO, AI accelerator interconnects, Ethernet, InfiniBand, DDR5, DDR6, HBM, and CXL.
• Collaborate with strategic customers, architects, R&D leaders, validation engineers, and manufacturing teams to understand requirements and resolve complex technical challenges from evaluation through production ramp.
• Build reusable measurement methodologies and integrated workflows for signal integrity, power integrity, channel characterization, jitter, eye-diagram analysis, BER validation, compliance testing, automation, and data analytics.
• Support sales engagements, proof-of-concept evaluations, competitive benchmarking, demonstrations, and strategic design wins that expand Teradyne’s footprint within key accounts.
• Partner with product management and R&D to translate customer requirements and market trends into product-roadmap input, beta validation, and feature-prioritization feedback.
• Mentor team members, support hiring and onboarding, strengthen technical capabilities, and foster an inclusive culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure Teradyne maintains industry leadership by monitoring emerging standards, representing the company at technical forums and customer events, and developing application notes, articles, webinars, and conference presentations.

Skills

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Channel characterization

BER measurements

Jitter analysis

Oscilloscopes

PAM4

NRZ

Equalization

Education

Electrical/Electronics/Photonic/Physics/CS Eng degree

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Digital Communication Analyzers

BER testers

VNAs

Optical spectrum analyzers

Power meters

Job description

Teradyne in North Reading, MA is seeking an Engineering Manager – High-Speed Digital & Optical Solutions to lead a multidisciplinary team spanning optical transceivers, Silicon Photonics, and AI data-center interfaces. You will partner with customers, R&D, product management, and manufacturing to define measurement strategies and accelerate time-to-market.

You will mentor engineers, guide validation, and build reusable measurement workflows for SI/PI, BER, jitter, and channel modeling, while