Senior ML Interconnect Engineer, High-Speed Optics & Copper

Maven Ventures; Palo Alto (CA); Presencial; USD 180.000 - 440.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity

Medical, vision and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Descripción de la vacante

SpaceXSI in Palo Alto is seeking an exceptional Network Engineer specializing in high-speed interconnects to design, validate, and optimize copper and optical connectivity for AI clusters at scale (100k+ GPUs). You will own from vendor due diligence to integration, collaborating with transceiver, photonics, and silicon teams to define roadmaps and reliable implementations.

The role focuses on physical layer and system integration (ACC/AEC, CPC; FR4/DR4/8), drive IP decisions, and work with ML

Formación

• 8+ years of experience designing, deploying and operating high-speed copper and optical interconnects.
• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in electrical engineering, photonics, or physics.

Responsabilidades

• Design, validate, and productize high-speed copper and optical connectivity solutions for AI clusters (100k+ GPU scale).
• Own vendor due diligence and onboarding for new 1.6T products including AEC and pluggable optical transceivers (DR4/8).
• Investigate the opportunity for LPO and LRO in our network.
• Evaluate early co-packaged and near-packaged engines for switches and GPUs.
• Evaluate and pathfind new interconnect modalities including VCSEL, microLED, THz radio-based solutions.
• Work closely with vendors to influence roadmaps and ensure timely delivery of next-gen solutions.
• Collaborate with ML teams to translate workload patterns into interconnect topology and optical reconfigurability requirements.
• Perform system-level simulation of end-to-end fabric performance.
• Drive failure analysis and corrective actions for interconnect issues in production clusters.
• Contribute to internal tooling for interconnect health monitoring and automated qualification pipelines.
• Stay current with industry standards (OIF CMIS, IEEE) and emerging technologies.

Conocimientos

8+ years experience in high-speed I/O

PAM4 SerDes performance

Signal integrity

Jitter and crosstalk

Thermal/power constraints

Optical interconnects

Copper interconnects

Vendor engagement

System-level simulation

Hardware design collaboration

Educación

Master’s degree or Ph.D. in electrical engineering, photonics, or physics

Herramientas

SerDes

Optical transceivers

Photonic integration

Descripción del empleo

SpaceXSI in Palo Alto is seeking an exceptional Network Engineer specializing in high-speed interconnects to design, validate, and optimize copper and optical connectivity for AI clusters at scale (100k+ GPUs). You will own from vendor due diligence to integration, collaborating with transceiver, photonics, and silicon teams to define roadmaps and reliable implementations.

The role focuses on physical layer and system integration (ACC/AEC, CPC; FR4/DR4/8), drive IP decisions, and work with ML