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# Photonic Engineer, Platforms Infrastructure

- **Company:** Google LLC
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $132,000.0 - $189,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Bioinformatics, Visual Systems
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3375511054&tx=HT8074THV&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area., * Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Optics, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

 * 2 years of experience working with fiber optical components and packaging techniques., * PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Optics, Physics, or a related field.
 * Experience with digital coherent optical transmission systems.
 * 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 high speed design of electronics and optics.

## Description

* Design low-cost and high-speed optical transceivers for ICI communication links.
 * Architect optical systems to scale TPU 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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