CareerPlan

Staff DSP Architect

Santa Clara, CA, USFull-time$120k–$179k2026-10-02 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and develop high-speed, low-power electrical and optical transceivers using PAM4 and advanced modulation schemes with FEC for AI, cloud, enterprise, and 5G infrastructure.

Role type

Staff DSP Architect

Builds

Next-generation DSP architectures for high-bandwidth interconnects in data centers

Domain

Semiconductor / High-speed optical and electrical communication

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Digital Signal Processing, Digital Communications, Information Theory, Coding Theory, Probability Theory, C++, MATLAB, Python, FFE/DFE, Adaptive Filters, Clock and Data Recovery (CDR), Forward Error Correction, Maximum likelihood sequence detection

Preferred skills

Signal integrity, ADC based wireline transceiver, Direct-detect/intensity modulated or coherent optical communication

Responsibilities

Architect and simulate advanced DSP systems; Conduct research in digital signal processing techniques for high-speed SerDes and optical communication channels; Prototype innovative algorithms for equalization, adaptation, and FEC; Develop and validate new DSP algorithms in simulation environments; Build bit-true models of DSP architectures; Participate in chip bring-up activities and debug system behavior