Senior Optical Network Architect – AI Data Center (Hybrid)

Platform Recruitment; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 475,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Comprehensive health, dental, vision,

Life insurance

401(k) with company contribution

Job summary

Platform Recruitment's client, a cutting-edge AI hardware company, seeks a Senior Optical Network Engineer to lead optical interconnect design and productisation for large-scale AI networks. The role covers full lifecycle from component characterisation and link budgets to data centre deployment.

RESPONSIBILITIES include qualifying 800G/1.6T modules, conducting link-budget tests, and building expertise in lasers, silicon photonics, EMLs, and DSPs. Hybrid work model and equity offered.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, Photonics, or similar.
• Experience with optical interconnect engineering across AI/data centre applications.
• Strong hands-on debugging and hardware development capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Qualify and productise high-speed copper and optical connectivity solutions for AI accelerator systems.
• Evaluate optical modules across 800G and 1.6T technologies, including DSP optics, LPO, NPO, and CPO.
• Perform link budget analysis and optical performance testing.
• Develop expertise across transceiver components including lasers, silicon photonics, EMLs, DSPs, and passive components.
• Define optical interconnect strategies for large-scale AI cluster architectures.
• Support NPI qualification, yield improvement, and reliability testing.
• Manage technical relationships with optical module and silicon photonics suppliers.

Skills

PAM4 expertise

SerDes architecture

Optical interconnect engineering

Hardware debugging

MATLAB/Python budgeting

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Electrical/ Optical Engineering or Physics

Job description

Platform Recruitment's client, a cutting-edge AI hardware company, seeks a Senior Optical Network Engineer to lead optical interconnect design and productisation for large-scale AI networks. The role covers full lifecycle from component characterisation and link budgets to data centre deployment.

RESPONSIBILITIES include qualifying 800G/1.6T modules, conducting link-budget tests, and building expertise in lasers, silicon photonics, EMLs, and DSPs. Hybrid work model and equity offered.