Technical Leader/Signal Integrity San Jose, CA

The successful candidate will be a member of the Transceiver Module Group, TMG, Engineering team responsible for MSA compliant optical and copper pluggable transceiver modules. The objectives of the team are to provide standardization of transceiver-based host board implementation across Business Units (BUs), maintain all Cisco form factor specs (X2, XFP, SFP+, etc.) and participate in new transceiver technology investigation. Candidate will be responsible for providing signal integrity technical consultation and leadership in the design and development efforts of pluggable transceiver and/or its respective host cards.
Responsibilities:

Providing SI technical guidance to developing BU design teams in standardization of host card transceiver implementation

Performing system level signal integrity and timing analysis on transceiver/host card interfaces

Participate in SI study and analysis of transceiver and host card interfaces via modeling and simulations

Developing the transceiver technical design guidelines and criteria to aid design teams for the host card development

Proposing new optical/copper transceiver concepts and conducting technology evaluation

Drafting and responsible for Cisco specific transceiver specifications

Required Skills/Experience:

Experience in high speed digital bus simulations and analysis in the field of Signal Integrity

Proficient with board level reflection, xtalk, ground bounce, bypassing techniques for power/ground noise reduction and termination techniques for reflection noise control

Proficient with 2-D/3-D CAD tools, Hspice, Matlab, SpecctraQuest etc

Proficient in the lab with oscilloscopes, Time Domain Reflectometers, Vector Network Analyzers, Spectrum Analyzers, and skew/jitter/phase noise measurements

Familiar with timing (setup/hold board timing analysis) and clocking designs

Familiarity with optical networking terminology, pluggable transceiver modules, lasers, laser-optics, electro-optics, electronics or related technical field

Good lab debugging skills

Ability to provide technical leadership on the design and development of optical transceiver with the supplier and the development teams

Typically requires BSEE/CS or equivalent with 10+ years relevant experience in internetworking technologies and applications. Master and a PHD would be a plus