Photonic ML Engineer — High-Speed Optical Transceivers

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team in Sunnyvale is seeking a hardware engineer to design and deliver high-speed optical transceivers and associated photonic systems for data centers. You will help scale TPU and GPU superpods and influence next-gen hardware power and efficiency.

The role emphasizes end-to-end responsibility from concept to high-volume manufacturing, working on in-house custom silicon and advanced transmission technologies for millions of users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in a high-speed datacom environment.
• 5 years of experience in digital coherent optical transmissions.

Responsibilities

• Design low-cost and high-speed optical transceivers for data center applications.
• Develop optical systems and architectures to scale TPU and GPU superpods.
• Identify, research, evaluate emerging photonic networking technologies.
• Explore optical technologies to disaggregate and improve efficiencies of future computing systems.

Skills

High-speed datacom experience

Digital coherent optical transmissions

Script writing

Test & measurement automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field

6 years of experience in high-speed datacom environment

5 years of experience in digital coherent optical transmissions

Tools

DSP simulation

Test/measurement automation tools

Optical transceiver design tools

Job description

Google’s Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team in Sunnyvale is seeking a hardware engineer to design and deliver high-speed optical transceivers and associated photonic systems for data centers. You will help scale TPU and GPU superpods and influence next-gen hardware power and efficiency.

The role emphasizes end-to-end responsibility from concept to high-volume manufacturing, working on in-house custom silicon and advanced transmission technologies for millions of users.