Senior Signal Integrity Architect - Remote

Piper Companies; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 155,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k)

Sick leave

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Signal Integrity Application Engineer to lead design, development, and optimization of high-speed cable backplanes and interconnects for telecom, datacom, networking, storage, servers, and AI/ML systems. The role is full-time with travel and preference for Santa Clara, CA or Austin, TX.

You will drive system-level requirements, perform SI modeling, and act as the primary SI liaison between customers and manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering required.
• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience providing technical leadership for high-speed interconnect and signal integrity solutions.
• Strong background in high-speed signal transmission, channel design, and EMI/EMC principles.
• Deep understanding of interconnect solutions and how signal integrity supports overall system architecture.
• Experience working within connector, cable, interconnect, networking, telecommunications, data center, or OEM design environments.
• Hands-on experience with signal integrity modeling and simulation tools.
• Expertise with tools such as ANSYS HFSS, SIwave, Cadence Sigrity, Keysight ADS, or similar platforms preferred.
• Strong organizational, presentation, and customer-facing communication skills.
• Experience supporting high-speed interconnect, cable backplane, telecom/datacom, data center, or AI infrastructure programs is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural design and signal integrity strategy for high-speed cable backplane systems.
• Define system-level requirements to ensure signal integrity, channel performance, and scalability objectives are met.
• Develop technical specifications, simulation models, and proof-of-concept correlation studies.
• Serve as the primary signal integrity point of contact between manufacturing partners and OEM customers.
• Develop a strong understanding of customer technical requirements, business objectives, and signal integrity challenges.
• Provide strategic technical support for the development and implementation of signal integrity solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex signal integrity and interconnect performance challenges.
• Lead system-level debug efforts and collaborate with manufacturing, test, and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Develop strategies to enhance signal integrity performance and maintain competitive differentiation.
• Collaborate across multiple business units to support seamless product integration into customer systems.

Skills

High-speed interconnect

Signal integrity

Channel design

EMI/EMC principles

Simulation tools

ANSYS HFSS

SIwave

Cadence Sigrity

Keysight ADS

Customer-facing communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Master's degree or Ph.D. preferred

Tools

ANSYS HFSS

SIwave

Cadence Sigrity

Keysight ADS

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking a Signal Integrity Application Engineer to lead design, development, and optimization of high-speed cable backplanes and interconnects for telecom, datacom, networking, storage, servers, and AI/ML systems. The role is full-time with travel and preference for Santa Clara, CA or Austin, TX.

You will drive system-level requirements, perform SI modeling, and act as the primary SI liaison between customers and manufacturing.