Staff Electrical Design Engineer
$186,000 - $250,000 USD yearly
Join us to contribute to the Passage™ photonics engine.
Originally posted 16 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This Staff Electrical Design Engineer role contributes to the development of silicon photonics based artificial intelligence accelerators and interconnect products.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with system architects to define system-level hardware requirements.
- Design power, memory, and interconnect circuits in analog and digital domains.
- Identify electrical and optical components based on IC and photonics engineering specifications.
- Develop conceptual designs, physical modeling, and simulations of chip-modules and systems.
- Oversee and review PCB layout designs, providing electrical constraint rules.
- Perform laboratory validation of boards and systems.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
- 8+ years of experience in system-level electrical design, taking products from concept to production.
- Proficiency in schematic design using Cadence, Mentor, or Altium tool sets.
- In-depth knowledge of VRMs, high speed SERDES, CPUs, PCIe, Ethernet, QSPI, I3C, and I2C.
- 5+ years of experience in lab experimentation, non-intrusive circuit debugging, and leading cross-functional integration teams.
- Experience working with thermal solutions for integrated circuits and board level systems.
- Familiarity with Product Lifecycle Management tools like Oracle Agile, Arena, or Omnify PLM, including BOM and ECO management.
Nice to have
- Experience designing electrical systems for networking.
- Knowledge of integrated circuit layout and designing a carrier PCBA.
- Familiarity with Systems Engineering principles.
- Familiarity with 3D Mechanical CAD tools like Solidworks or AutoCAD.
Skills: board and system solutions, electrical design, high speed SERDES, PCIe, Ethernet
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This role has been open 17 days — well below the 119-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · Serdes Highspeed
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Open roles in category
93
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Median days open
119 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$197k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Lightmatter | All employers we track in this specialty (93 roles · 33 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 93 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 16 | 6338 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 139 d | 119 d (+20 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $197k |
Skills observed across this category: board and system solutions, electrical design, high speed SERDES, PCIe, Ethernet
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 20 open roles · median 131 d
- Qualcomm · 9 open roles · median 179 d
- AMD · 5 open roles · median 140 d
- Intel Corporation · 5 open roles · median 21 d
- Astera Labs · 4 open roles · median 47 d
- Keysight Technologies · 4 open roles · median 161 d
How we counted: 93 open Hardware Systems Engineering (Serdes Highspeed) roles from 33 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 3 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.