Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Feld
- IT, DevOps, Embedded
- Anstellung
- Vollzeit
- Vertragsart
- Unbefristetes Dienstverhältnis
- Ort
- Aachen
- Arbeitsmodell
- Onsite
Job Zusammenfassung
In dieser Position entwickelst du Referenzdesigns für optische Interconnect-Technologien, unterstützt Kunden beim Systemaufbau und führst Tests zur Validierung durch, während du eng mit verschiedenen Teams zusammenarbeitest.
Job Technologien
Deine Rolle im Team
- We are seeking a skilled Senior Platform & Hardware Applications Engineer at Black Semiconductor to enable successful customer adoption of our next-generation Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) technology.
- Working closely with Product, Photonics, Packaging, Test Engineering, and Commercial teams, you will help customers successfully deploy our technology while providing valuable feedback from the field to drive future product improvements.
- Your work will span platform integration, high-speed system validation, reference design development, and technical support across the product lifecycle.
- This role combines high-speed hardware platforms, FPGA and ASIC bring-up, optical interconnect technologies, system validation, and customer-facing technical engineering.
- Guide customers in integrating Black Semiconductor products into ecosystem solutions such as switches, NICs, accelerators, ASICs, and FPGA-based platforms.
- Support customer bring-up and debug activities, including link training, BER validation, interoperability testing, firmware configuration, and system-level issue resolution.
- Develop example schematics, reference boards, application notes, and integration guides covering power delivery, clocking, fiber and cable routing, management interfaces, pinouts, register maps, and thermal and mechanical guidelines.
- Contribute to SDKs and PDKs where appropriate.
- Work closely with Product, Photonics, Packaging, and Test Engineering teams to communicate field issues, customer feedback, and feature requests that help shape future product development.
- Support pre-sales activities including evaluations, demonstrations, and benchmarking, as well as post-sales debugging, technical escalations, customer training, and on-site laboratory support for key accounts.
Unsere Erwartungen an dich
Ausbildung
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.
Qualifikationen
- Strong customer-facing communication skills with the ability to explain complex signal integrity and optical system concepts, write technical application documentation, and coordinate multi-stakeholder debugging activities.
- Good understanding of optical interconnect technologies, including optical transceivers, Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), optical chiplets, link budgets, NRZ/PAM4 modulation, equalization, and high-speed standards such as Ethernet, PCIe, CXL, and JESD204.
- Familiarity with PCB CAD tools for schematic capture and layout, Microsoft Office, and engineering documentation and drawing tools.
Erfahrung
- Strong experience with FPGA and ASIC SerDes bring-up, including demonstration and evaluation board PCB design, RTL development, IP integration, embedded software, tool flows, high-speed measurements, and interposer validation.
- Programming and scripting experience for PC-based platforms to control demonstrations, automate experiments, interface with test equipment, and analyze data.
- Hands-on experience using laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, voltmeters, logic analyzers, pattern generators, and related high-speed debug tools.
- Experience with FPGA programming and development tool flows.
Unser Angebot
- We offer a comprehensive benefits package with outstanding insurance, pension and virtual stock options for your mental, physical, and financial health.
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Job Standorte
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Black Semiconductor
Die Black Semiconductor GmbH mit Sitz in Aachen entwickelt innovative Lösungen für die Chip-Konnektivität. Dabei setzt das Unternehmen auf integrierte photonische und elektronische Technologien, die auf Graphen basieren. In Aachen wird eine Pilotfertigung und Entwicklungsinfrastruktur eingerichtet.
Description
- Unternehmenstyp
- Startup
- Arbeitsmodell
- Onsite
- Branche
- Elektronik, Automatisation
Senior Platform & Hardware Applications Engineer
- Ort
- Aachen
- Arbeitsmodell
- Onsite
- Diversität
- Für alle Personen geeignet (m/w/d)
- Nur Englisch
- Nur Englisch erforderlich
