Senior Hardware Engineer (High-Speed Optoelectronics)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Hardware Engineer focused on high-speed optoelectronic platforms and fiber-optic transceivers
• Location: Vista, CA
• Salary: $160,000–$220,000 annually (based on experience) plus bonuses paid three times per year

Description

Senior Hardware Engineer position driving the design, analysis, and development of advanced fiber-optic transceivers and supporting hardware. You will work across optoelectronics, high-speed circuits, and system-level design, owning hands-on prototype, bring-up, debug, and characterization activities. The role emphasizes end-to-end autonomy from concept through implementation in a collaborative R&D environment.

Responsibilities

• Design high-speed, high-precision electronics (including firmware-enabled systems)
• Apply power integrity and RF signal integrity principles and simulation techniques
• Analyze optical communication system principles and optical signal integrity impairments, especially in multi-mode fiber-optic systems
• Build, prototype, and debug DC/RF/optical electrical and optical test setups to characterize system performance
• Develop and mature test concepts and novel test solutions for EVT/DVT and production
• Collaborate on transceiver design across optical, mechanical, thermal, and electrical domains
• Support PCB fabrication/assembly workflows including layer stack-ups, DFM review convergence, and SMT issue resolution

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in hardware design and fiber optic communication
• Success creating and maturing new technologies from concept through early validation
• Proven technical leadership and independent problem solving
• BS in Electrical Engineering or related field required
• US work eligibility on an unrestricted basis
• MS or PhD preferred

Benefits

• Bonuses paid three times per year (February, August, and late fall)
• Comprehensive benefits package: medical (HSA/PPO), dental, vision, group life, AD&D, short- and long-term disability, EAP
• 401(k) with company match and profit sharing
• Variety of voluntary benefits options
• Paid time off