Development Engineer High-Speed Digital Hardware

at  VIAVI Solutions

Summary:
VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) has a 100+ year history of technical innovations that have evolved to keep pace and address our customers’ most pressing business issues. We make equipment, software, and systems that help to plan, deploy, certify, monitor, and optimize all kinds of networks - like those for mobile phones, service providers, large businesses and data centers. VIAVI is also a leader in high performance thin film optical coatings and engineered diffusers, providing light management solutions to anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, automotive, defense and instrumentation markets.
We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected – at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are fierce about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.
VIAVI Solutions is looking for a Development Engineer for High-Speed Digital Hardware.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Development of fast digital hardware with bitrates up to 3.2 Tbit/s.
• Circuit diagram creation and selection of components.
• 3D EM simulation of critical signal paths.
• Selection of PCB material and determination of PCB layer stacks.
• Support the layout team with the layout of critical signal paths.
• Optimize the design and routing for signal integrity.
• Conception and implementation of heat dissipation concepts.
• PCBA turn-up.
• Functional testing and performance testing (design verification).

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, communications engineering, communications technology or a comparable field of study.
• Experience in the development of high-speed digital hardware.
• Very good theoretical and practical high frequency knowledge.
• Experience in FPGAs with fast transceivers.
• Experience in Ethernet hardware is advantageous.
• Experience in PCIe hardware is advantageous.
• Flexibility, enthusiasm and not afraid of technical challenges.
• Analytical, systematic and independent way of working.

You will work in a small team of experienced hardware engineers.
If you are looking for a challenging position in the high-tech development area of a globally oriented company, enjoy working independently and reliably in an experienced team and would like to work flexibly according to requirements, we look forward to receiving your application

• Development of fast digital hardware with bitrates up to 3.2 Tbit/s.
• Circuit diagram creation and selection of components.
• 3D EM simulation of critical signal paths.
• Selection of PCB material and determination of PCB layer stacks.
• Support the layout team with the layout of critical signal paths.
• Optimize the design and routing for signal integrity.
• Conception and implementation of heat dissipation concepts.
• PCBA turn-up.
• Functional testing and performance testing (design verification)