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# Sr. Staff Engineer, Electronic Hardware Design

- **Company:** Ayar Labs
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Agile Methodology, Altium Designer, Analog Electronics, Booting (BIOS), Computer Programming, SolidWorks (CAD), Memory Management, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, Python (Programming Language), LTspice, Real-Time Operating Systems, CPLD, High Performance Computing, Pspice, Hardware Testing, Bare Metal
- **Published:** May 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=af9bddebcff917ae

## About the Role

Do you have experience in RTOS?, Do you have a Master's degree?, We are seeking an Electronic Hardware Design Engineer to help us revolutionize photonic interconnects for high performance computing. The exceptional candidate will be highly motivated and energetic, willing to take on paradigm-shifting systems design challenges to meet growing scale-up and scale-out bandwidth needs.
The Sr. Staff Hardware Design Engineer role will take ownership over New Product Introduction (NPI) for External Laser Source (ELS) module hardware design. The candidate must demonstrate excellent capability to execute multi-disciplinary projects, meeting aggressive schedules and technical requirements.
Ayar Labs is a process-driven and collaborative design environment; the successful candidate will be organized and communicative. This role is full-time on-site in our San Jose office., * Bachelors in Electrical Engineering with 7+ years of industry experience, or Masters/PhD in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of industry experience

 * Strong fundamentals in low-noise analog circuit design and electromagnetics
 * Knowledge of electro-optic building blocks such as TIA and Laser Driver
 * Power user of Altium PCB design tools, including Altium 365 and Agile workflows
 * Deep understanding of BMC architecture for enclosure management (OCP)
 * Expert experience using electrical and electro-optic lab equipment such as: Oscilloscope, VNA, ESA, OSA, protocol analyzer, etc..
 * Expert user of circuit simulation tools such as LTspice, PSpice, and vendor-specific switching regulator software
 * Strong programming ability in python, with the ability to automate hardware testing and analysis
 * Strong ability in fundamental embedded programming concepts: real-time operating systems, MCU memory usage, bootloader, serial interfaces

Preferred Qualifications

 * Optical transceiver design experience (OSFP, QSFP-DD, CDFP)
 * Firmware development in C (bare-metal / RTOS)
 * Basic RTL development (FPGA, CPLD)
 * Basic Mechanical CAD tool experience (Solidworks, Fusion)

## Description

* Create and maintain External Laser Source module specifications to meet product requirements
 * Manage communication between cross-functional teams including optical, mechanical and thermal design disciplines
 * Design printed circuit boards schematics for all functions of External Laser Source NPI
 * Manage hardware design resources internal and external to Ayar Labs
 * Develop and execute validation test plans for all laser module hardware design components


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