Senior Manager of Board Design

About Neurophos

The demand for new datacenters and AI compute is rapidly outpacing the planet's energy capacity. Digital solutions are hitting a power wall as we approach the physical limits of traditional silicon. Conquering this bottleneck isn’t about bigger chips or more of them; it means rethinking the fundamental architecture. The industry's current path isn’t going to meet the need, so we took a different approach.

Instead of traditional electronic circuits, we use silicon photonics and an active, programmable metasurface to perform matrix multiplications at the speed of light. Our optical cells are 10,000x smaller than traditional photonic components, enabling unprecedented density. By using photonics instead of electricity, our chips become more efficient as they scale. This architecture will deliver up to 100 times the energy efficiency of existing solutions while significantly improving performance for large-scale AI inference.

We’ve assembled a world‑class team of industry veterans and recently raised a $110M Series A led by Gates Frontier. Participants include M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), Carbon Direct Capital, Aramco Ventures, Bosch Ventures, Tectonic Ventures, Space Capital, and others. We have also been recognized on the EE Times Silicon 100 list for several consecutive years. Join us and shape the future of computing!

Neurophos is seeking a hands‑on Senior Manager of OPU Product Board Design to own the full board design function across two tightly coupled domains: conventional computer hardware board design and optoelectronics board integration. This is a senior technical leadership role with direct ownership of all OPU product PCBs — from architecture and schematic capture through layout, bring‑up, and production release.

The right candidate will bring deep personal hands‑on experience in high‑speed digital board design and a working understanding of optoelectronic circuit integration (laser drivers, TIAs, high‑speed DAC/ADC, metasurface/SLM drive electronics, silicon photonics IC interfaces). You will hire and develop engineers with specialized expertise in each domain, but you will retain overall technical and program ownership across both. You will partner closely with optical, mechanical, ASIC, firmware, and test engineering teams to ensure that board‑level designs meet the demanding signal‑integrity, power‑delivery, thermal, and optical‑drive requirements of the OPU platform.

San Jose, CA or Austin, TX. Full‑time onsite position.

• Board Design Ownership
  • Own end‑to‑end PCB development for all OPU product boards, including host interface carrier boards, silicon photonic IC interposers, metasurface/SLM driver boards, and subsystem evaluation platforms.
  • Define board architecture, layer stack‑ups, and design rules for high‑speed digital interfaces (PCIe Gen 5, UCIe, DDR5) and high‑fidelity analog/optoelectronic drive circuits on the same or adjacent boards.
  • Lead schematic capture and layout reviews, enforcing DFM, DFT, and signal integrity standards across both digital and optoelectronic board domains.
  • Drive board‑level bring‑up, debug, and characterization for complex mixed‑signal systems; establish repeatable verification methodologies covering both electrical and optical functional tests.
  • Maintain schematic block libraries, footprint libraries, and simulation models that span digital, analog, and optoelectronic component families.
• Optoelectronics Board Integration
  • Lead board‑level integration of silicon photonic ICs, laser driver ICs, transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs), and high‑speed DAC/ADC circuits that interface directly with the OPU optical engine.
  • Collaborate with optical and optomechanical engineers to translate optical system specifications into concrete PCB design requirements.
  • Define and execute board‑level qualification plans for optoelectronic subsystems, including eye diagram measurements, BER characterization, and optical power budget validation.
  • Stay current on silicon photonics packaging trends and assess their impact on future OPU board architectures.
• People & Team Building
  • Recruit, onboard, and develop a team of board…