Software Engineer

Amphenol High Speed Products Group is the market leader for high speed, high bandwidth electrical connectors for the Telecom/Datacom market (Mobile Networks, Storage, Servers, Routers, Switches, etc.). Our products help to enable the electronics revolution and remain a key enabler for all the major Tier 1 OEMs globally. Our global headquarters are located in Nashua, NH and we have design, sales and manufacturing locations globally.We are expanding our team software team. We are currently seeking a Software Engineer for High Speed Cables to join our team. The position is located on-site, in Nashua, NH.

Our collaborative software tools team develops manufacturing applications, and various specialty software tools for our hardware engineering teams. The focus of this position is on softwarethat goes into our global tools for engineering and production of various cable and thermal loopback products, including active copper, passive copper and active optical. This area is rapidly evolving to support ever more complex communication chips, including linear active amplifiers to 80GHz, DSPs, as well as richer host interfaces, notably CMIS.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, debug and support of software for active high speed IO cables and thermal loopbacks. This includes working with customers, internal engineers, production facilities, as well as manufacturers of communication chips chosen.
• As a key resource, be contributing member of product teams that turn high speed IO cable concepts into products that then get handed off to manufacturing.
• Provide engineering support to team members working on fine tuning of communication settings by opening up back doors or interfaces as needed.
• Work hand-in-hand with developers responsible for manufacturing applications
• Provide software and tools support to product qualification, testing, and manufacturing
• Mentor other members as needed
• Ensure that all software is well documented and can be supported by other team members
• Includes travel as needed, to visit Amphenol manufacturing plants during product ramp up

Do you have experience in Writing skills?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

• 3+ years of industry experience with software tools development on interconnect products or equivalent
• Experience with programming of software tools with simple human interfaces
• Good understanding of I2C, SPI buses, writing Windows GUI tools
• Experience in developing page-based host interfaces for I2C Slaves, such as is used by Small Form Factor devices or CMIS
• Comfortable working in a team that shares code and with peer reviews of code
• Hands-on experience with source code control systems, including a habit to make regular check-ins
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, strong English reading and writing ability
• Self-starter, able to work efficiently without having all details or requirements laid out on the table
• Dynamic and adaptable personality, able to think out of the box

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work experience in multi-disciplinary engineering teams
• Accustomed to working in a global, hybrid environment, using tools such as Teams and Zoom
• Understanding of Signal Integrity theory and practice
• Familiarity in working with hardware interfaces and reading chip data sheets
• Experience working with high-speed communication equipment, VNA, TDR, Scope, including knowledge about SFF standards
• Working experience with Digital Signal Processors
• Experience working with prototype hardware and lab settings
• Ability to improvise testing setups with bread boards and jumpers
• Comfortable working in C++, preferably using Visual Studio
• Experience using SVN
• Familiarity with Linux and traditional command line interfaces