Application Engineer (High-Speed Digital & Photonics)

Dear Applicant,

If you or someone you know is interested, please send the CV directly to [email protected] (most preferred, as I may overlook some CVs due to the high volume).

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available at this time.

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Application Engineer to support customers across the rapidly evolving AI infrastructure, high-speed digital, optical communications and advanced memory ecosystem.

This is a customer-facing technical role combining engineering expertise, solutio development and consultative engagement. You will work with technology companie and engineering teams to develop measurement, validation and characterizatio solutions for next-generation digital and optical technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a technical expert across high-speed digital, optical communications, photonics and AI infrastructure technologies.

• Engage with customers throughout the solution lifecycle, from technical evaluation and planning through deployment and production.

• Understand customer engineering challenges and recommend appropriate testing and measurement approaches.

• Develop and deploy validation and characterization solutions covering:

o High-speed SerDes and interconnects

o Optical transceivers and optical networking

o Silicon photonics

o PCIe, Ethernet and InfiniBand

o DDR, HBM and CXL memory technologies

• Develop measurement methodologies for signal integrity, power integrity, jitter, eye diagrams, BER and compliance testing.

• Integrate instrumentation, automation and data analysis into practical engineering workflows.

• Support technical demonstrations, proof-of-concept projects, competitive evaluations and customer engagements.

• Work closely with commercial teams to identify opportunities and support technical sales and design wins.

• Gather customer feedback and industry insights to influence future solutions and product development.

• Represent the organisation at customer events, technical forums and industry conferences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Photonics, Physics, Computer Engineering or a related field.

• 10+ years of experience in applications engineering, design validation, product engineering, manufacturing test or technical solution development.

• Strong knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, channel characterization and compliance testing.

• Solid understanding of PAM4, NRZ, equalisation, jitter, BER and channel modelling.

• Hands-on experience with high-speed digital and/or optical communication technologies.

• Experience with optical transceivers, silicon photonics or high-speed interconnect technologies.

• Practical experience using test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes, BERTs, VNAs, optical analysers, protocol analysers or related instrumentation.

• Strong customer-facing, communication and technical consulting skills.

• Experience with industry standards such as IEEE, OIF, PCI-SIG, JEDEC, Ethernet or CXL is advantageous.