Analog/Mixed Signal Architect (Photonics)

Location: Boston, MA or Mountain View, CA. Flexible hybrid workplace model.

Salary: $149,000–$216,500 USD base salary range, plus equity and other rewards.

Company

hirify.global develops photonics-based chips and infrastructure for extreme-scale AI and high-performance computing data centers.

What you will do

• Propose high-speed 50G+ analog and mixed-signal circuit architectures for optical transceivers, including drivers, TIAs, equalizers, ADCs, DACs, PLLs, and CDRs.
• Develop performance, power, and area estimates for analog devices within the Passage platform.
• Collaborate with analog, digital, photonics, and software engineering teams.
• Provide high-bandwidth photonic interconnect solutions with the photonics engineering team.
• Author, review, and validate detailed architectural specifications.
• Represent hirify.global at technical conferences and contribute to its technical leadership.

Requirements

• PhD in electrical engineering, physics, applied physics, or a related analog-design discipline.
• Experience designing and testing optical front-end receivers and transmitters in advanced CMOS, including TIAs, drivers, CTLE, DFE, ADCs, DACs, and oscillators.
• Advanced experience with Cadence Virtuoso, Cadence Spectre, Verilog-A, and IBIS-AMI simulators.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and collaboration skills.
• Capacity to comply with federally mandated U.S. export control requirements.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of equalization, digital signal processing, coding, and signal integrity in optical communications.
• Experience with silicon photonic devices, including Mach-Zehnder and microring modulators and thermally tuned components.
• Data-driven, analytical, process-oriented, innovative, and flexible working style.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment focused on building new computing technologies.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement savings matching, life insurance, disability coverage, and paid family leave.
• Vacation, sick leave, public holidays, commuter benefits, and training and development.
• Equity grants for full-time employees.