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Principal Field Applications Engineer – High-Speed Interconnect
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · EMEA
Experience
Senior · 5+ years
Job description
Principal Field Applications Engineer for high-speed interconnect, focused on the data center market, driving design wins and co-development with hyperscaler and optical customers across EMEA, with additional support for PON and Mobile Transport accounts.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA
What you'll do
- Drive design wins for Semtech's portfolio of high-speed drivers, TIAs, copper redrivers, and other products, working closely with engineering teams from key data center customers
- Accelerate customer design-in cycles, proactively removing technical barriers to secure immediate revenue opportunities
- Lead co-development initiatives for next-generation technologies (1.6T, 3.2T+) with customer engineering teams
- Create joint innovation programs and proof-of-concept projects with Tier 1 hyperscaler providers
- Align Semtech product roadmap with customer technology evolution plans
- Provide technical and pre/post-sales support to key European PON and Mobile Transport accounts
- Apply signal integrity, high-speed analog, and characterisation expertise across product lines
- Support design-in activities, technical evaluations, and troubleshooting for PON and Mobile Transport accounts
- Balance and prioritise time across data center and PON/Mobile Transport engagements
- Lead technical evaluations and drive technical differentiation in competitive situations
- Provide comprehensive pre-sales and post-sales customer support for strategic design-ins
- Troubleshoot and debug complex technical issues
- Guide customers on hardware design, PCB layout, signal integrity optimization, firmware integration, and system validation
- Support customer qualification processes with equipment manufacturers, network operators, and cloud service providers
- Create application notes, white papers, and design guides
- Influence product management and R&D priorities based on customer insights and market intelligence
- Serve as strategic technical advisor to VPs in sales and product lines
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure customer co-development projects receive appropriate resources and priority
- Drive internal alignment across product management, engineering, marketing, sales, and operations
What we're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field
- 5+ years of proven AE/FAE experience in data center, PON, or wireless/mobile transport environments
- Expertise in signal integrity (high-speed principles, modulation schemes, channel modeling, equalization) for 800G, 1.6T, 3.2T data center, PON, or mobile transport applications
- Knowledge of optical transceiver architecture, design, validation, and manufacturing
- Familiarity with LPO, LRO, NPO, and CPO architectures; familiarity with PON ONU/OLT or mobile transport optical architectures
- Experience in high-speed PCB design including layout, impedance control, and signal integrity validation
- Proficiency with high-speed test equipment (network analyzers, BER testers, oscilloscopes)
- Understanding of IEEE 802.3 and OIF standards, or ITU-T PON standards
- Understanding of optical communications, networking, hyperscaler data center architectures, network topologies, and infrastructure evolution
- Demonstrated success leading customer co-development projects with significant revenue impact
- Established relationships with Tier 1 customer engineering teams and ecosystem partners
- Exceptional communication across technical and business audiences
- Proven ability to influence without formal authority and work autonomously in complex situations
- Strong initiative and ownership mentality
Nice to have
- Master's or Ph.D.
- Direct experience with high-speed laser/modulator drivers, TIAs, redrivers, and/or DSPs
- Active participation in industry standards bodies (IEEE 802.3, OIF, ITU-T)
- Prior experience at optical customers, optical networking, hyperscalers, optical module vendors, PON equipment vendors, mobile network infrastructure providers, or data center equipment manufacturers
- Existing relationships with European PON or Mobile Transport accounts
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About Semtech
Global leader in high-performance analog ICs for high-speed optical and copper interconnect
Semtech is a global leader in high-performance analog ICs for high-speed optical and copper interconnect.
Key facts
- Revenue responsibility: $100M+ Design Win Portfolio across Nvidia and other EMEA optical customers
- Travel: 35% or less
Partners & customers
Nvidia