Senior Staff Engineer - Technical Standards – Wired Data Center - Qualcomm - remote, Germany
Originally posted 20 July 2026 by the employer — open 52 days.
About the role
As a Senior Staff Engineer focusing on Technical Standards, you will represent Qualcomm in standardization forums and industry organizations, driving the evolution of wired connectivity infrastructure standards.
What you'll do
- Represent Qualcomm as a delegate in standardization forums and industry organizations.
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to improve and evolve industry technical standards.
- Identify existing and emerging standards relevant to Qualcomm, particularly for wired data center connectivity.
- Review and guide internal product requirements and specifications for conformance with standards.
- Work with attorneys to file patents protecting novel IP aspects of inventions.
- Assess competitive technology directions and shape specifications to support product and IP roadmap objectives.
What you'll need
- Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 7 years of experience in system design, validation, or related engineering roles.
- 2 years of experience participating in technical standards bodies or industry organizations.
- Direct experience with IEEE 802.3 and OIF.
- Deep understanding of 200G, 400G, 800G/1.6T Ethernet rate evolution.
- Knowledge of PAM4 modulation, FEC, equalization, channel loss, BER targets, and link-budget tradeoffs.
- Understanding of scale-up, scale-out, and scale-across data center fabrics, including electrical copper reach limits, active electrical cables, linear pluggable optics, co-packaged optics, near-packaged optics, and optical module architectures.
Nice to have
- 10 years of experience in optical, SerDes, and system design, modeling, validation, or test.
- 4 years of active participation in standards organizations (e.g., IEEE, OCP, PCI-SIG).
- Authored or co-authored contributions in IEEE, OCP, or similar.
- Experience designing and developing SerDes across the full lifecycle (architecture, design, implementation, verification, validation, manufacturing, silicon qualification).
- Familiarity with Qualcomm technologies and semiconductor platforms.
- Established network within industry, standards bodies, or academia.
Skills: high-speed optical, electrical SerDes, data center infrastructure, PAM4, FEC, IEEE 802.3
This role has been open 52 days — well below the 91-day median for High-Speed IO/SerDes Design roles.
High-Speed IO/SerDes Design · Serdes Highspeed
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Open roles in category
217
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Median days open
91 d
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Median salary
$185k
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (217 roles · 44 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in category | 17 | 217 |
| Median days open | 74 d | 91 d (−17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: high-speed optical, electrical SerDes, data center infrastructure, PAM4, FEC, IEEE 802.3
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 24 open roles · median 61 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 19 open roles · median 153 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 17 open roles · median 74 d
- Synopsys · 16 open roles · median 53 d
- Broadcom · 11 open roles · median 142 d
- NVIDIA · 10 open roles · median 95 d
How we counted: 217 open High-Speed IO/SerDes Design (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 44 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Sept 2026. Figures refresh nightly.