Electrical Engineer (SerDes and Signal Integrity)

Location: Work in person at the New York City headquarters; domestic and international travel required for up to 25% of the time. Relocation support is provided.

Base salary: $150,000–$250,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

Builds Atlas, an AI platform that applies physics-grounded intelligence to verify, debug, and optimize hardware across its lifecycle.

What you will do

• Model SerDes channels end to end, including PCBs, vias, connectors, packages, and cables.
• Generate S-parameters, RLGC extractions, and channel operating margin estimates for high-speed PAM4 links.
• Characterize insertion and return loss, crosstalk, impedance discontinuities, skew, mode conversion, resonance, and material losses.
• Develop production-grade 2.5D and 3D electromagnetic simulation workflows for SerDes structures.
• Correlate simulations with VNA, TDR, and BER measurements and lead root-cause analysis for discrepancies.
• Automate parameterized SerDes simulation and post-processing workflows, while integrating PCB design expertise into Atlas.

Requirements

• 3+ years of industry experience in signal integrity, SerDes channel engineering, or high-speed digital design at a hardware or semiconductor company.
• Strong knowledge of signal integrity fundamentals, including loss, crosstalk, impedance discontinuities, via stubs, backdrilling, skew, mode conversion, and de-embedding.
• Practical experience with 2.5D/3D EM solvers such as Ansys HFSS/SIwave, Keysight ADS/Momentum, or Cadence Sigrity/Clarity.
• Knowledge of 112G/224G PAM4, PCIe Gen5/6, IBIS-AMI models, eye-diagram optimization, and BER budgeting.
• Experience with VNA, TDR, and BERT equipment, test planning, and simulation-to-measurement correlation.
• PCB design experience with Altium or Cadence OrCAD/Allegro, plus Python scripting for simulation pipelines.

Nice to have

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field.
• Experience with low-loss laminate systems and high-volume PCB manufacturing constraints.
• Experience debugging EMI/EMC de-sense issues on high-speed digital boards.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance premiums fully covered for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Daily lunch from local restaurants.
• Relocation support.