Optical DSP Application Engineer

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionSalary: $120,000 - $140,000

Credo's Optical DSP Application Engineering Team

Fueling the next of AI data centers, our mission is to enable and drive high-speed communication by providing cutting-edge technology, world-class quality, and interoperability. We deliver advanced high-speed communication solutions, including chips, optical modules, and active optical cables. Our current chips support speeds up to 1.6TBps.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement test plans and test cases.
• Develop scalable test framework components.
• Develop automation and flows for testing, data acquisition, and data analysis.
• Set up lab testing environments, including evaluation boards, test equipment, and test code.
• Create and exercise lab automation involving evaluation boards, third-party test equipment, data acquisition, and environmental conditions.
• Bring up new systems that may include new hardware, chip firmware, or algorithms.
• Collaborate with chip design teams.
• Support FAE and sales teams as the first line of communication with customers, both pre- and post-sale.
• Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis of issues and bugs.
• Implement algorithms for signal acquisition and link optimizations.
• Work with customers to enable, optimize, and troubleshoot optical communication products.
• Write and maintain technical documentation for both internal and external use.
• Develop and exercise data and signal analysis tools and algorithms.
• Perform system integration and optimization, mediating multiple cross-functional teams such as DSP design, analog design, firmware, software, specific hardware design, and optical components.
• Conduct system integration on switch and server levels, simulating AI datacenter environments.

Education, Skills and Experience

• Desire and willingness to learn and grow
• Bachelor's degree+ in EE, CE or software engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in software or hardware development
• Proficiency and delight in Python coding, including data and signal analysis
• Some background and understanding of signal processing and digital communication
• Some experience with hardware or high-speed communication systems, or strong desire to learn
• Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Comfortable with Linux environment

Qualifications

• Experience with fiber optic communication systems.
• Experience with high speed SerDes
• Experience in High-speed hardware design and signal integrity
• Experience in Wireless or mobile communications, especially PHY
• Knowledge of Ethernet and InfiniBand protocols and standards

Extra bonus points

• Frontend and backend of webapp
• Dashboarding applications like "Dash" and Grafana
• Expert level of Pandas and NumPy
• Expert level in Python's graphing libraries like Plotly and Pyplot