You investigate whether emerging interconnect technologies can genuinely improve future personal or connected compute, under realistic cost and power limits. The honest answer is often no, and being able to establish that quickly and clearly is as valuable here as finding the case where it is yes.
Open for applications. Starts at: Research program.
We are taking applications for this role now and building the pipeline for it. The stage above is when the work itself is expected to begin, which is something you deserve to know before you apply rather than after. It is context, not a gate.
Where
In the office together five days a week, in one of our garages, and remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time. We hire across the United States 🇺🇸, India 🇮🇳 and the UAE 🇦🇪.
The work
Evaluate optical links or other advanced interconnect approaches against electrical baselines. Study packaging, conversion overhead, reliability and manufacturability with specialist partners. Keep the research tied to a measured bottleneck and a plausible product-scale use case.
The milestone
In your first 90 days, deliver a literature-grounded feasibility study and a bounded experiment with explicit performance and commercialization assumptions.
Required
Nice to have
Evidence
Bring research expertise in photonics, high-speed interconnects, applied physics or related engineering. Strong experimental judgment and an ability to explain physical limits are essential.
Evidence, not credentials. We are describing work you can point at, in whatever form it exists.
The exercise
Compare an optical and electrical link for a concrete workload, including all conversion, packaging, energy and validation costs.
The package
Indicative pay ranges by market and level are on the compensation page. Plan numbers are confirmed in your offer letter.
Apply
One short form. A person reads every application and you hear back either way. You will get your own link to check where things stand, and you can withdraw or delete your application from it at any time, without an account.
