First Analog IC Lead - Speed Optical

Silicon photonics / optical-interconnect-systems experience is a strong plus.

We're a stealth startup building AI-assisted circuit search and simulation software for analog ICs.

This is an early, founding-level role with real equity and real influence over where the product — and the company — goes.

We're looking for a Senior High-Speed Analog/RF IC Design Engineer to be our circuit truth owner:

The person who decides what is physically credible, defines the architecture and methodology, and earns the trust of analog customers.

Preferably already living in Greater Boston
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We know AI does not replace analog expertise.

The engine is aimed to support designers and is useless without a real analog architect.

• Collaborate with us on shaping how our system recognizes valid, useful, and high-performing high-speed analog/RF circuits.
• Define high-speed receive and transmit front-end architectures; choose and trade off topology families.
• Define analog specs, constraints, and success criteria — noise, bandwidth, stability, linearity, power, layout/parasitics.
• Size transistors and bias circuits; design, review, and debug generated circuit candidates.
• Build SPICE test benches, measurement flows, and corner checks — and interpret the results.

• 5+ years in analog/RF or mixed-signal IC design/verification, with real high-speed front-end work.
• Hands‑on with high-speed front ends — sensitive input/receive stages, high-speed output/line drivers, Ser Des-adjacent front ends, or comparable.
• Intuition for noise, bandwidth, stability, linearity, power, and layout/parasitics.
• Strong SPICE simulation and circuit‑debugging skills; comfort across DC, AC, transient, noise, mismatch, PVT, and corner analyses.

• Link budgets, signal integrity, sensitivity, and error‑rate targets.
• Packaging, co‑packaging, and thermal constraints.

• Meaningful founding‑team equity — substantial for a true founding analog lead.
• Flat hierarchy. Mission‑driven. Less bureaucracy, more impact.
• We're preparing to raise a founding round in the next ~3 months, with the goal of moving founding‑team members onto salary after the round closes and scaling our product from pilot to production.
• Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide visa sponsorship at this stage.

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