Photonics Transceiver Engineer, Senior​/Principal

Company Overview

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication, and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO
9001 international quality standard and ISO
14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 75 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs, and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. View our facilities at  In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represent a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives, and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Job Title:
Photonics Transceiver Engineer, Senior / Principal

The Photonics Transceiver Engineer, Senior/Principal will utilize in depth knowledge to develop, design, maintain, or improve photonic transceiver modules for high-speed digital signal transport in harsh environments for Aerospace & Defence applications. Will demonstrate advanced conceptual and practical expertise in photonic parallel optical VCSEL-based transceiver and high-speed electrical design, test, qualification and transition to manufacturing challenges and effective working knowledge of related disciplines.

• Lead the development of high-speed digital photonic parallel optical transceiver products and related components at data rates up to 28 Gbps and above. Products utilize microprocessors and firmware.
• Possess deep experience developing, qualifying and transitioning to manufacturing parallel optical VCSEL-based transceiver products for Aerospace and Defense customers in harsh environments including space vacuum and radiation.
• Stay abreast of technological advances in photonics and introduce new technologies that can improve performance and lower costs.
• Requires specialized depth and/or knowledge or expertise in the design, test, and release of new products, devices, circuits, and/or subsystems in an ISO-9001 or AS9100 environment.
• Be responsible for all design activities and related product development activities from design reviews, design verification, and qualification. Oversee the development of test and assembly plans and procedures.
• Own the Bill of Material and manage key vendor relationships, keeping abreast of parts obsolescence or opportunities for improvements. Provide clear status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing test data.
• Expert in formal stage-gate new product introduction process.
• Awareness of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.
• Impact a range of customer, operational, projector service activities within own team and other related teams, acts as resource for colleagues.
• Support Business Development proposal activities by reviewing customer requirements against MACOM capabilities, developing product concepts and sketches to support customer proposals and capturing new business.
• Work with other MACOM Product Engineering groups to transfer products to production in other MACOM locations.
• Support full environmental and lifetime qualification of products for aerospace applications including radiation testing in conjunction with offsite test facilities.

• In depth understanding of VCSELs, photodiodes, laser drivers, TIA/limiting amplifiers and control electronics and firmware.
• Analyze best practices to improve product, processes, or services.
• Strong ability to solve complex problems and takes a new perspective on existing solutions.
• Fluent with relevant simulation tools, software, and test equipment (BERTs, DCAs, optical switches, attenuators, power meters, thermal chambers, etc.) for applications requiring data rates of 28 Gbps NRZ and 56G PAM-4 or higher.
• Experienced with chip-level integration and experience…