Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Embedded
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Aachen
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop reference designs for optical interconnect technologies, support customers with system bring-up, and conduct validation tests while collaborating closely with various teams.
Job Technologies
Your role in the 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.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.
Qualifications
- 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.
- Gutes Verständnis der optischen Verbindungstechnologien, einschließlich optischer Transceiver, Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), optischer Chiplets, Link-Budgets, NRZ/PAM4-Modulation, Equalization und Hochgeschwindigkeitsstandards wie Ethernet, PCIe, CXL und JESD204.
- Vertrautheit mit PCB CAD-Tools für Schaltplanerstellung und Layout, Microsoft Office sowie Engineering-Dokumentations- und Zeichenwerkzeugen.
Experience
- 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.
- Erfahrung mit FPGA-Programmierung und Entwicklungs-Toolflows.
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What we offer
- 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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About Your Employer
Black Semiconductor
Black Semiconductor GmbH, based in Aachen, is developing innovative solutions for chip connectivity. The company focuses on integrated photonic and electronic technologies based on graphene. A pilot manufacturing and development infrastructure is being established in Aachen.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Industry
- Electronics, Automatization
Senior Platform & Hardware Applications Engineer
- Location
- Aachen
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
