Senior Platform & Hardware Applications Engineer (Optical Interconnect)

Location: On-site in Aachen, Germany

Company

hirify.global develops graphene-based photonic solutions that connect chips through high-throughput, low-delay optical computing networks.

What you will do

• Guide customers integrating Optical Compute Interconnect products into switches, NICs, accelerators, ASICs, and FPGA-based platforms.
• Support customer bring-up and debugging, including link training, BER validation, interoperability testing, firmware configuration, and system-level issue resolution.
• Develop example schematics, reference boards, application notes, and integration guides covering power delivery, clocking, routing, management interfaces, pinouts, registers, thermal, and mechanical requirements.
• Contribute to SDKs and PDKs where appropriate and support platform integration and high-speed system validation.
• Coordinate with Product, Photonics, Packaging, and Test Engineering teams to communicate field issues, feedback, and feature requests.
• Support pre-sales evaluations, demonstrations, benchmarking, post-sales debugging, technical escalations, customer training, and on-site laboratory support.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong experience with FPGA and ASIC SerDes bring-up, evaluation-board PCB design, RTL development, IP integration, embedded software, tool flows, high-speed measurements, and interposer validation.
• Understanding of optical transceivers, Co-Packaged Optics, optical chiplets, link budgets, NRZ/PAM4 modulation, equalization, Ethernet, PCIe, CXL, and JESD204.
• Programming and scripting experience for controlling demonstrations, automating experiments, interfacing with test equipment, and analyzing data.
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, voltmeters, logic analyzers, pattern generators, and other high-speed debugging tools.
• Experience with FPGA development flows, PCB CAD tools, Microsoft Office, and engineering documentation and drawing tools, plus strong customer-facing communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, human-centered work culture focused on work-life harmony.
• Autonomy and continuous learning opportunities supporting professional and personal development.
• Benefits package including insurance, pension, and virtual stock options.
• Open, inclusive, and collaborative environment focused on innovation and individual contribution.