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# Photonic Engineer, Machine Learning

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $188,000.0 - $274,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Data Centers, Machine Learning, Visual Systems, Data Center Networking
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/939D353121684DE2B5B41E4CE3D8670D/job/

## About the Role

Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

Share Photonic Engineer, Machine Learning, * Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

 * 6 years of experience working in a high-speed datacom technical environment.
 * 5 years of experience in digital coherent optical transmissions., * PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
 * Experience with script writing and test and measurement system automation.
 * Proficiency in digital signal processing, high-speed optoelectronic circuit simulation or system modeling.
 * Knowledge of large volume high-speed optical transceiver designs and manufacturing.
 * Knowledge of data center network and machine learning system architectures.

## Description

* Design low-cost and high-speed optical transceivers for data center applications.
 * Develop optical systems and architectures to scale TPU and GPU superpods.
 * Identify, research, evaluate emerging photonic networking technologies.
 * Explore optical technologies to disaggregate and improve the efficiencies of future computing systems.


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