Director, Technology Development

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The Director, Technology Development will have the ability to evaluate the Datacenter/AI rack market and customers, recognize trends and set forth a plan to penetrate business opportunities/applications that will deploy an (AEC) Active electrical cable architecture. This individual will define the customer engagement strategy specific to the AEC engineering teams and work with the organization for execution. Responsibilities will also include the coordination of product support functions targeting customer qualification requirements (Application engineering, Firmware, interop testing, etc.).

• Engage customer engineering teams supporting both networking and compute hardware specific to host (switch) to module (NIC card) cabling applications.
• Identify product and application trends/opportunities to drive next generation product roadmaps.
• Support application engineering during system bring up/debug (Host to module).
• Establish partnerships with the AEC ecosystem (DSP-retimer) suppliers.

• Bachelor degree in Engineering or related technical discipline (Optics, RF signal integrity, SW).
• At least 7 years of optical / copper transceiver module development (High speed communication systems) and program/project management.
• Experience in DSP/Retimers, firmware (CMIS), hardware, design and test.
• Experience developing customer relationships at the leadership level.
• Experience communicating across all levels of business and executive leadership presence.
• Business acumen to deliver high level communication in the specified field.

For this role, we anticipate paying $200,000 - $225,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

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