Senior Hardware Architect, Coherent Optical Systems

Adtran; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

ADTRAN is seeking a Principal Hardware Engineer to provide technical leadership in the development of next-generation Optical Transport and Coherent Pluggable solutions for metro, core, long-haul, and data center interconnect applications.

You will lead architecture, design, validation, and production support, collaborating across optical, electrical, firmware, FPGA, software, mechanical, manufacturing and systems teams to deliver high-performance networking solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Electrical/Optical field required or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in hardware engineering for telecom or optical systems.
• Experience with coherent transceivers and DWDM platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware architecture and design of coherent pluggable transceivers and subsystems.
• Drive decisions for high-speed digital, RF, mixed-signal, and optical hardware.
• Provide mentorship and guidance across multiple product teams.
• Serve as primary technical resource for complex engineering challenges and design reviews.
• Evaluate new technologies and architectures to support roadmaps.
• Develop system architectures, schematics, and hardware specs.
• Design and validate high-speed boards for coherent optical systems.
• Lead signal integrity, power integrity, and EMI analyses.
• Collaborate with PCB layout to optimize performance and cost.
• Oversee integration, verification, qualification, and release activities.
• Support new product introductions and production transfers.
• Define and evaluate optical subsystem requirements (coherent modules, DWDM, amplifiers, ROADM, WSS).
• Perform system-level analysis and design trade studies.
• Work with suppliers to qualify optical components.

Skills

Coherent optical communications

DWDM transport systems

High-speed board design

Signal integrity

RF design techniques

Schematic capture & simulation

DFM/DFT knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering / Physics / Optical Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Xpedition

HFSS

ADS

HyperLynx

Job description

ADTRAN is seeking a Principal Hardware Engineer to provide technical leadership in the development of next-generation Optical Transport and Coherent Pluggable solutions for metro, core, long-haul, and data center interconnect applications.

You will lead architecture, design, validation, and production support, collaborating across optical, electrical, firmware, FPGA, software, mechanical, manufacturing and systems teams to deliver high-performance networking solutions.